February has arrived and as a vegetable gardener, you are likely ordering seeds and making plans for your garden for the coming growing season. One factor to consider when planning your vegetable ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

When planning a vegetable garden for next year, one of the first thoughts that may come to mind after choosing which plants to grow is where in the garden they should be planted. Accounting for water, ...

If you’ve ever planted the same vegetable in the same spot every year and noticed your harvest getting smaller, you’re not alone. That’s where crop rotation comes in. It’s a simple method of switching ...

Broccoli is a fighter. Cauliflower is an endurance champion. The scrappy lima bean finds a way to prevail. When you see perfect produce lined up at the supermarket, do you think about what it takes ...

SAUK COUNTY GARDENER Jeannie Manis Sauk County Master Gardeners Association “There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has ...

Vertical farming is highly adaptable to our future increased use of robotics, AI, data sensing, and data processing. Much of this work is repetitive and backbreaking, so it makes sense to use machines ...

“Succession” is best defined as a sequence of events happening one after another. In the practice of gardening, this means a technique where new crops are planted regularly to maintain a continuous ...

Researchers and Extension specialists at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have received a grant to study alley cropping as a viable solution to mitigate crop stress and improve the ...