The snap of a juicy carrot fresh from your own backyard is worth the bit of extra effort required to grow these vegetables successfully. "Carrots are one of the more finicky crops to get established," ...

Get ahead of spring gardening by planning now—even while it’s freezing. Seasoned gardeners share how early prep makes the busy growing season easier.

The blessing of warmer, drier weather these past few days has tempted us to get in the garden to dig. And planting a nice crop of carrots tops many a gardener’s list. Nothing can beat the sweetness ...

Creating a backyard vegetable garden is one of the most rewarding activities you can undertake as a home gardener.

Thanks to the long growing season in the South, you can plant a cool-season crop like carrots twice, once in the fall and again in very early spring. Carrot seeds will germinate in 10 to 21 days and ...

Experienced gardeners often grow two crops of carrots, an early crop and the main crop. The early crop is grown for immediate use, while the main crop is harvested for more long term keeping and use ...

I've read in several garden books about how carrots weren't originally orange. The first carrots cultivated were purple or yellow. Orange came much later. But how, and why? None of the books I read ...

The plants capture and store carbon in the soil, promote healthy soil by preventing compaction and can make the air cooler on ...

Autumn in our area is a subtle thing. September brings more northerlies and the temperatures begin to fall. This morning on my screen porch it was a very nice 72 degrees. As well, the scarlet buckeyes ...