Sorghum is an underrated superfood that definitely deserves a spot in your kitchen garden. It's quite easy to grow with the ...

A person plants grass seed in the lawn using a seed spreader cart. - The Toidi/Shutterstock Planting grass seed is usually considered a warm weather activity. But in the fall, when we're doing garden ...

The holiday season is adorned with poinsettias, holly and mistletoe, but it is not well known that some of these species are ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

Growing up on a farm, I thought everyone had an acre or two set aside as a vegetable garden. It wasn't until I owned my first home that I was faced with starting a garden from scratch in a different ...

AMITY, Ore. — It’s a miracle that the Ruddenklaus found each other. Helle was a Danish immigrant who grew up on her family’s Dayton, Ore., farm. Bruce was raised on his family’s New Zealand farm. But ...

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical ...

If your grass has been watered enough in the drought and water-use restrictions to produce a relatively compact and green lawn, now is the time to fertilize it. A winterizer product with a 3-1-2 ...

Explore the pros and cons of various cover crop varieties to know what to pick for your cotton field this winter.

DAVENPORT, Iowa — The Quad Cities Area is off to a dryer start this spring, and for farmers planting their seeds, that's a good thing. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows at the end of ...

Ten years ago, Ben Marsh was working as a biology teacher and wondered what it would be like to grow his own food.