Sweet potatoes are a popular crop to grow in home vegetable gardens, and the delicious, versatile tubers can be roasted, mashed, chipped, and more, once lifted. If you are worried you don’t have the ...

Like lettuce, spinach grows fast and isn’t very tall, so it doesn’t put down deep roots. This makes it a terrific container ...

Container gardening is a smart way to add growing space without having to create new garden beds. You can enjoy fresh veggies anywhere you have lots of sun on your patio, deck, or balcony. Plus, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lettuce and nasturtium growing in pots Growing lettuce is quick and easy and the crop is ideally suited to growing in pots.

I enjoyed your article on blueberries last week, but I garden in New Orleans, and you mentioned that the soil here is not acid enough. Would I be successful growing blueberries in containers? And, if ...

A. While there are many benefits to growing in containers, the biggest drawback is water retention. A tomato planted in the ground, or even in a raised bed, has the luxury of spreading its roots far ...

The first week of May is full of color, so enjoy the beauty then get to work. Time to weed, feed and add new plants. May is also the main month for rhododendrons and azaleas to put on a show, so note ...

Waiting to grow into green leafy plants, hundreds of seeds are being nursed in a mix of peat moss and coco cork formed into tiny cubes and germinated — inside a freight container set up to grow ...