If you don’t know how to grow parsnips yet, it’s likely someone told you they were hard to grow. This would be unfair, in our opinion. The humble parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is low maintenance and ...

Recently a reader asked if growing parsnips is easy. The simple answer is they are easy to grow. Here are the tips to grow good parsnips from the University of Minnesota. Proper soil preparation is ...

Fall is an ideal time for gardening in the High Desert due to more moderate temperatures. Local groups are offering gardening classes and seed swaps to help the community. Root vegetables like garlic, ...

Gardeners bid farewell to summer this week, when autumn officially arrived on Thursday. But the change of seasons does not have to signal the end of the planting season for gardeners not yet ready to ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Wow, summer time weather is upon us as we experience the first 90 degree F temperatures of the growing season. I see many local farmers baling hay and ...

Parsnips -- along with other vegetables that grow underground such as beets, sweet potatoes and turnips -- evoke thoughts of autumn and root cellars. But spring is when this carrot-shaped root really ...

Fall is one of the best times to dig in the dirt—cooler weather, fewer bugs, and the perfect season for planting everything from garlic to kale. But here’s the thing: just because fall planting feels ...

Extend your harvest when you plant these top fall vegetables! Some of these require longer growing seasons, while others can handle a little extra time in the ground while you deal with your abundance ...