Growing a thriving garden is trial and error. Sometimes you grow plants that flourish, while others struggle to get ...

Some companion plants can serve as insect attractants that lure pests away from crop plants. Nasturtiums tend to attract ...

White capote has the potential to reach 50 feet in height and tolerate wetter soil than most fruit trees and will yield a ...

If you're growing squash this season, there's one surprisingly simple gardening trick that could double your harvest.

Lettuce is an easy-to-grow, cool season crop that’s typically planted in spring for an early summer harvest, or in mid-summer ...

We just see the squash in the supermarket as the finished product, but that's not all that the plant has to offer.

Space — or the lack of it — doesn’t have to stand between you and a fruitful garden. You just have to be creative.

Your squash plant is growing vigorously, full of promising little fruits. Then, before you can pick a single one, the plant wilts, collapses and dies.

If you have limited space, choose a vining variety to grow on a trellis or a compact bush type. The Smith County Extension ...

In a tough economy, working on the farm offers teens job training and life skills. Participants in this summer’s youth ...

A few examples of cool-season crops that work well for succession planting include most lettuces, radishes, spinach, kale, peas, cabbage, beets, turnips and bunching onions. Once harvested, they can ...