As the growing season comes to an end, it’s time to protect the garden bed from compaction, erosion, and nutrient ...

The costliest mistake a vegetable gardener makes all year isn’t a frozen tomato or a missed harvest. It’s the drip line still full of water, or the hose still screwed onto the spigot, on the first ...

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 ...

Think of fall garden cleanup as curation rather than clearing: observe first, identify a task's purpose, and intervene only ...

Many fall vegetables can survive milder frosts that come to Kansas City in the fall. Paul Kuehnel USA TODAY Network via ...

That automatic watering schedule that kept your tomatoes alive through July may be doing too much work by late. Cooler days, longer nights, weaker sunlight, and seasonal rain can all change how ...

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 ...

Fall is the time for planting some of our favorite vegetables. Collard greens, mustard, kale and some root vegetables like turnips which are eaten for leaves but also their storage bulbs are a treat ...

Spending $25 at the grocery store doesn’t buy much produce anymore, but could the same $25 planted in the backyard turn into $100 worth of vegetables? It’s possible, although the viral-sounding ...

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 ...

Now that we are moving into October, it’s time to start seriously thinking about your fall vegetable garden. There is an ...