A guide to 7 vegetables to plant in February in a cold frame or beneath cloches for the first homegrown harvests of the year, ...

It's late winter and it’s the time of year when gardeners want to start planting something. Anything! Although vegetable and flower seeds can be started indoors, that process requires a fair amount of ...

Extend the growing season and harvest fresh vegetables in winter with these cold-hardy crops. Tomatoes, melons, and cucumbers are the stars of summer veggie gardens, but they die back as soon as the ...

In the middle of winter, the selection of “fresh” vegetables can be quite meager. Sure, the produce on the store’s shelves could be considered fresh, but it’s highly unlikely it was harvested from ...

Cold frame gardening is an effective strategy to extend your growing season. Whether you want to protect your plants from fall frosts or seedlings from spring cold snaps, these boxes are easy and ...

Winter is a rough time for herbaceous plants. Most don’t have the tolerance for the extreme cold in upper North America, and many die back in late winter in the South. But if you have time, you can ...

Get ahead and sow these crops now!

The looming first fall frost doesn’t mean the end of the vegetable garden. With a little heat-trapping protection, it’s possible to keep growing cold-hardy crops such as carrots, parsnips, turnips, ...

A fall vegetable garden offers a fresh start. Cool-season vegetables like leafy greens, root crops, broccoli and cabbage — commonly grown in spring — get a jumpstart when planted in the warm soils of ...

Extend your edible harvests by planting fast-growing and cold-hardy vegetables right now. It may feel like the garden is winding down as summer days grow shorter, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be ...

January planting means you'll harvest fresh vegetables weeks or even months ahead of gardeners who wait until spring.