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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You grew tomatoes successfully in that sunny corner of your garden last year, so why shouldn’t you plant this year’s seedlings in the same spot? It’s ...

We know what you’re thinking: what is crop rotation? Well, it’s as simple as it sounds. Crop rotation is the practice of rotating crops belonging to specific groups around a vegetable bed from year to ...

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 ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Today’s topic is crop rotation. Basically you don’t want to plant the same crop in the same area every year. Rotating your crops throughout the garden space will help maintain ...

No matter how small your vegetable garden is—raised beds or otherwise—it's crucial to not the same veggies in the same spot every year. Farmers and home gardeners use this practice, called crop ...

Few consider moving perennial vegetables when rotating crops in the vegetable garden. Asparagus, for example, can be produced ...

One of the most common questions asked is "Do I really need to rotate my garden crops?" This is especially a problem in smaller home gardens, but the answer is always yes! There are three main reasons ...

URBANA -- Chemicals have limited effects on controlling it and there are no known resistant varieties of processing pumpkin to withstand an attack of the deadly blight known as Phytophthora capsici (P ...