If you’ve planted vegetables during the spring and early summer, you’ve likely already reaped the benefits of growing your own. Homegrown vegetables are particularly tasty and are most delicious when ...

A. No, you can sow seeds now or set out transplants, available at some nurseries around town. Many varieties are usually hardy to the upper 20s. Begin successive sowing now and continue into April in ...

Growing lettuce is quick and easy and the crop is ideally suited to growing in pots. Utilizing containers to grow delicious leaves offers many benefits, including protection against pests and the ...

Spring officially arrives in March and, when the heat and light levels increase, it is a great time to plant many vegetables. There is a growing list of vegetables to plant in March and increased ...

Cauliflower seeds started indoors in January get a welcome head start. This cool-loving vegetable thrives when given enough ...

Starting seeds inside under lights isn’t the only way to get young plants growing ahead of our frost-free growing season. A lot of gardeners are discovering the little-known option of “winter-sowing,” ...

When lettuce is mentioned, many think of the standard iceberg lettuce found in supermarkets and restaurant salads. That is changing with the growth in popularity of the different types of lettuces ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

The only bad thing about growing your own lettuce is that you will never again be content with store-bought. Once you harvest tender, crisp but succulent leaves from your garden and enjoy them in a ...

Perennials: Continue planting and transplanting perennials, incorporating a trowel full of compost to each newly dug hole. Thin the stems of late blooming phlox and asters to the ground for larger ...