Timing is essential for success growing broccoli plants. Here's when to start seeds indoors to extend the growing time for ...

Question: We would like to plant broccoli for the first time. How many plants do we need and should we look for a certain variety? Answer: Expect good production from each broccoli plant during winter ...

You don’t need to wait for spring or summer to plant many garden vegetables. Some veggies, like lettuce and kale, are more cold-hardy plants and can be sown in winter. Other veggies, like onions and ...

Keep broccoli plants hydrated by watering them at the base a couple of times a week. Apply a liquid fertiliser fortnightly over the growing season, especially as you see heads start to develop.

If you plant broccoli transplants now, it will be about two months before you harvest the main head. And, since the plants will send up more, smaller florets after that, harvest continues for several ...

Outside, it still looks like winter. But on the kitchen table, a stack of seed packets says otherwise. March is the month when indoor seed starting takes off in earnest, and if you’ve ever ended up ...

Plants have their own special ways of competing in the garden and in nature. Some become chemical warriors and produce substances that affect the ability of other plants to grow. This is called ...

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We are about two and a half months from a hard frost. While this will kill most of our vegetable plants, there are still a few veggies we can grow surprisingly well late in the year. Our first frost ...

Next month is an exciting time in the vegetable garden. In March, spring planting begins for warm-season vegetables, such as tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers and green beans. These plants will ...