If you're working with a relatively small yard and want to be able to grow much of your own food, you may need to grow your plants relatively close together. This works fine for many plant ...

Our root-cellar-in-a-box overflows with potatoes. Without a cellar, what’s an approachable way to store my root crops through winter? Build a root vegetable storage box for a small-scale way to ...

A biological mechanism familiar to people who fast helps plant roots grow strong. The discovery provides an answer to a long-unanswered question and a deeper understanding of the 'mouths' of plants ...

You can’t build a farm shop on a weak foundation, and you can’t grow a high-yielding corn crop with weak roots. Healthy corn roots enable efficient resource ...

You may have seen the term “bare root plants” in nursery catalogs and websites and wondered what it means. Basically, it’s exactly what it sounds like: Plants are shipped without soil or a container.

BOISE, Idaho — Have you ever noticed at many garden centers there are some trees and shrubs in pots ready to plant, and others that aren't in any pots at all? They look just like sticks with bare, ...