The potato is commonly planted around St. Patrick’s Day. Typically, the soil temperature is ready to plant potatoes and other early spring crops like peas then. Current soil temperatures are ...

You can also grow first early and second early potatoes in a large bag on a patio or balcony, regularly covering the bottoms of stems with more compost as they grow. First early potatoes can be ...

Potatoes are one of the most versatile and popular vegetables eaten throughout the world. A crop failure of this vegetable caused by a pathogen in just one country in the mid-1800s was responsible for ...

March has arrived, and it’s officially time for planting spring vegetables. Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale and other transplants can be set in the garden this month. Sow seeds of beets, ...

Gardening expert, author and TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh, 76, has shared the five "essential" gardening tasks gardeners must ...

​Starting plants from seed feels like the most natural and conventional way of growing plants, whether they are flowers, vegetables or herbs. After all, that’s how plants grow in nature, right? But ...