Plant cabbage six to eight weeks before your first frost to give it time to mature in cooler temps for sweeter heads. Keep soil moist, fertilize biweekly, and watch for pests like aphids or worms to ...

Enjoy a harvest earlier in the season by getting these veggies started indoors at the right time.

Mid-summer is the time to prepare for a fall vegetable garden. July and August are ideal for starting seeds indoors for broccoli, cabbage, leafy greens, and even cauliflower and Brussels sprouts.

The heat of July makes it difficult to realize that fall gardening activities are not too far away. The sunny, warm days and cool nights associated with a typical Missouri fall provide ideal growing ...

What’s actively growing in your vegetable garden in the middle of October? You may have some late winter squash yet to be harvested, but warm-season stalwarts such as cucumber and summer squash are ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

There’s lots of planting to be done in our vegetable gardens this month. The late summer/fall vegetable garden includes plantings of both warm-season vegetables (many of the same ones we planted in ...

As summer winds down, it’s time to shift your focus from tomatoes and cucumbers to turnips and kale. For Rowan County gardeners, late July through early September is the prime time to start planting a ...