Many people think of spring as the best time to plant vegetables, but if you ask rooftop gardener James Mastaler, fall is actually the perfect time to start! “Fall is a surprisingly wonderful time to ...

Check your local freeze date to choose vegetables for October planting. Fast-maturing cool-season crops are ideal for late fall harvests. Hardy plants like garlic and kale go dormant in winter and ...

Fall is spinach's season. Spring-planted spinach bolts. Fall spinach thrives. Swiss chard remains a real trooper and just plain pretty. Bok choy and Chinese cabbage grow fast and taste best in cool ...

Understanding gardeners' favorite vegetable companion plants can help you grow healthier, tastier beets, potatoes, carrots, and other fall vegetables. Companion plants are plants that are grown close ...

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.

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 ...

TIME FOR SUNDAY. GARDENER I’M HERE AT VALLEY VIEW FARMS WITH CARRIE INGLE. GOOD MORNING. HEY, THERE. AND IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR WE’RE PLANTING SOME FALL SEASON CROPS, AND I LOVE VEGETABLES. SO AS YOU ...

Most readers know that I am an ornamental gardener. I have not vegetable gardened for many years and never have in Amarillo. Texas Gardener magazine publishes spring and fall planting guides. The fall ...

As vegetable gardeners, we schedule part of our garden lives on two important dates of the year: the date after which it is safe to plant and the date we will likely lose our plants. Of course, I am ...