With spring upon us, it’s time to think about planting in home gardens. In Iowa, onions are a popular addition to the vegetable garden as they are easy to grow and take up little space. In this ...

Onions can be a great vegetable for backyard and container gardens. They take up minimal space, and are relatively forgiving for beginners; plus, they attract few pests. They also make excellent ...

Once you enter the month of June, you might assume you've missed your early spring window to plant flowers or vegetables before the weather heats up. If this is the case for you, you'll be happy to ...

Most onions take about 90 to 100 days to reach a harvestable size when grown from seed. However, onions are biennial plants, so you need to leave plants in the ground for two years if you want to ...

Treat fruit trees, pecan trees and shrubs with horticulture-grade dormant oil:to help eradicate scale and other over-wintering insects. Check the label for special instructions regarding temperature ...

Onions may not be the prettiest vegetable to grow, but they're certainly one of the most useful. Figuring which items you eat most often is the first thing to consider before planting a vegetable ...

There are some things I never forget: Where each plant in my garden came from. Who unlocked the secret of successfully growing carrots for me (John Navazio, then a senior scientist at Organic Seed ...

As winter lingers, gardeners are craving fresh, homegrown vegetables and getting their hands in the dirt. February is the ...

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