Garden earlier by winter sowing vegetables, herbs, and flower seeds directly into the ground to achieve an extra-early spring harvest. What does it mean to “winter sow” your seeds? At its simplest, it ...

The time to plant summer vegetables is so close you can almost taste it! Seed displays and racks of luscious transplants at garden centers are both tempting. Which method of growing veggies should you ...

Maintaining a vegetable garden can be a lot of work, but the satisfaction derived from growing food balances that labor with pleasure. In my professional gardening work, I have a number of clients who ...

As a vegetable grower for an Edgell processing plant, now part of the Simplot empire, he was familiar with the problems confronting potato growers. Together with his wife Jud­ith they set up Dobmac ...

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They say: 'a peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom,' but why? The answer, of course, lies in the soil. Spring is principal vegetable seed-sowing time and the earlier you start, the larger your ...

This is the sweet spot in the gardening calendar ...

Monday was officially the first day of spring, and on Sunday the clocks go forward an hour. The new season is here, you can feel it. The air smells fresher and the cold less biting on the skin. Look ...

JERRY COLEBY-WILLIAMS: I love to grow plants from seed. It gives me great joy to create new life. And that's why I'm here in Gatton, in outer-western Brisbane, at this huge nursery, to see what we can ...