Think winter is too early to start sowing vegetable and herb seeds outdoors? Not for all of them! While heat-loving crops ...

Sow flower seeds such as calendula, cosmos, nigella, larkspur and ammi majus from February onwards, but if you are sowing ...

Seed trays (either with cells or without), good quality multi-purpose peat-free compost and, most importantly, seeds. If you ...

Key Points Don’t start heat-loving seeds like tomatoes and beans too early or they’ll struggle before transplanting ...

Think it's too early to plant veggies? January is actually the ideal time to get many crops started, whether they're planted ...

A great way to beat the cold weather we have seen this week is to start working on this year’s garden. This is the perfect ...

The RHS are predicting that tabletop veg will be big this year, and for good reason: some of the easiest vegetables to grow ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

What a gift to be a gardener at this time of year! For most other people, winter just grinds on, with dingy snowdrifts melting into puddles that will freeze into ice slicks. But gardeners don’t ...

Temperatures during December dropped below the seasonal average and it was too inclement to do much work in the garden.

While we continue to experience a winter wonderland, some home gardeners are thinking about getting a head start by starting seeds indoors. Rosie Lerner, Purdue University consumer horticulture ...