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Your Fall Garden Superstars Fall is spinach's season. Spring-planted spinach bolts.Fall spinach thrives. Swiss chard remains ...

Rats love some of these veggies because they grow deep in the ground, which is ideal for the sneaky critters, while they ...

Most people associate summer with vegetable gardens. As fall arrives, we tend to put the garden to bed, but it’s not too late to continue to enjoy your garden and to add new plantings. You can grow a ...

No matter how small your vegetable garden is—raised beds or otherwise—it's crucial to not the same veggies in the same spot every year. Farmers and home gardeners use this practice, called crop ...

Late summer can be a great time to plant fall vegetables. The shorter days and cooler temperatures are perfect for planting leafy greens, cabbage, broccoli and root vegetables. By the way, remember ...

Early to mid-summer is the time to plant seeds for a fall and winter garden. Weston Miller, community and urban horticulturist for the OSU Extension Service showed us how to plan ahead and what to do ...

Companion planting is a common practice, especially in edible gardening, but this pairing of vegetables with mismatched ...

It’s okay to plant hardy perennials and shrubs 4–6 weeks before the ground freezes. Don't plant if the first expected fall ...

I am not quite ready for fall. I love summer and I love the heat. However, fall is a great time of the year to continue to harvest fresh vegetables from the garden. Now is a good time to plant seeds ...

Frost-tolerant greens, garlic, herbs are among the plants that can be planted well into Charleston’s fall season. What to ...

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 ...