Give your seedlings space for the strongest to survive and thrive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Peter Krumhardt It's always exciting when your seeds start sprouting up in garden beds or in starter trays. So the idea ...

Beets are a gardener’s delight, vibrant, earthy, and packed with nutrition, but they can be surprisingly tricky to grow. From stunted bulbs and overcrowded seedlings to split roots and pest damage, ...

Beets are commonly grown for their bulbous roots, but their tops can also be harvested for greens, and they are an excellent source of Vitamin A as well as calcium. Beet juice is sometimes used in ...

Thin root crops such as beets, carrots, turnips and radishes by removing the smallest plants to give the remaining plants room to mature. Radishes and carrots should be about 3 inches apart and ...

Years ago I received a letter — yes, I wrote this column in pre-email days, too — from a reader who wanted me to know she had planted some very special beet seeds, as each developed three or four ...

A. Gradually is best if you have time to return to the garden every couple of days as the plants grow larger. Thin them so that the leaves from a single plant barely touch neighboring leaves. The ...