Late-season gardening can feel like a high-stakes game. You’ve spent months tending seedlings, nurturing soil, and dreaming of harvests, only to face unpredictable weather, hungry birds, and sneaky ...

Every fall after the growing season, I like to put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter with a cover crop of winter rye. Broadly speaking, a cover crop is a crop that covers the soil with a ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

February has arrived and as a vegetable gardener, you are likely ordering seeds and making plans for your garden for the coming growing season. One factor to consider when planning your vegetable ...

When the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference recently in Baton Rouge, I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and ...

thriving vegetable garden isn’t just about planting the right crops, it’s also about avoiding the wrong ones. Some plants, while attractive or useful elsewhere, can silently sabotage your garden by ...