We asked plant experts to troubleshoot your seed-starting struggles. Here's what they had to say.

Sprouting grains and seeds is easy and fun. The health benefits are well worth the extra work. You can sprout wheat berries, barley, buckwheat, alfalfa, sesame seeds, and flax seeds, to name a few.

When growing raspberries in the South, look for types that can grow in your USDA Plant Hardiness Zone. They can be tricky to grow the further south you go because many need cold temperatures to ...

While our elementary school science classes may have taught us the basics about seeds and how to plant them, if you’ve gotten into gardening as an adult, you’ve probably figured out that there’s ...

UConn Home and Garden Education Center alum Carol Quish wrote a short blog post about vivipary in 2014 that, over a decade later, is still one of our most-read pieces. Why are folks still interested ...

Indoor growing begins four to six weeks before the last frost, and direct sowing occurs one to two weeks after the frost ends ...

Flats of vegetable starts cover the tables in a greenhouse maintained by Master Gardeners with the Oregon State University Extension Service in Hood River. It's important to make sure that new ...

March can be shorts and flip-flop weather one day, and the next we’re pulling our thick sweaters back out. It’s a weather ...

The first thing my city friends asked when I told them I had bought a 19th-century farmhouse on several acres was, "what are you going to do with all that land?" The idea of owning acreage is alien to ...