Plant cabbage six to eight weeks before your first frost to give it time to mature in cooler temps for sweeter heads. Keep soil moist, fertilize biweekly, and watch for pests like aphids or worms to ...

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Cabbage is a cold crop, and we live in an area where it can be grown in early spring and fall. Two crops a year provide ...

The heat of July makes it difficult to realize that fall gardening activities are not too far away. The sunny, warm days and cool nights associated with a typical Missouri fall provide ideal growing ...

What’s actively growing in your vegetable garden in the middle of October? You may have some late winter squash yet to be harvested, but warm-season stalwarts such as cucumber and summer squash are ...

With summer waning, it may seem like the window for a vegetable garden has closed for the year. And while it’s probably too late to grow prizewinning heirloom tomatoes or jumbo watermelons, there’s ...

There’s lots of planting to be done in our vegetable gardens this month. The late summer/fall vegetable garden includes plantings of both warm-season vegetables (many of the same ones we planted in ...

Any tomatoes currently on the plant as summer winds down are likely to ripen nicely in the next month or so. Current blossoms, however, may lead to good tomatoes, mealy tasteless tomatoes or none at ...

As summer winds down, it’s time to shift your focus from tomatoes and cucumbers to turnips and kale. For Rowan County gardeners, late July through early September is the prime time to start planting a ...