Beets are a wonderful crop to grow for many reasons. These vegetables are packed with nutrients, and you can harvest some of the leafy greens while you wait for the vibrant, fleshy roots to fully ...

Plants don’t thrive in isolation—they need friends (just like us). One common theory touted by a number of master gardeners says that pairings of certain plants will help them thrive, while other ...

Q: How does companion planting work? A: Companion planting has been around for a long time, so most of the early evidence was anecdotal in nature. Eventually, companion planting was scientifically ...

The end of summer is the perfect time to get your fall garden situated right before hunkering down for the first frost. Companion planting — the practice of growing certain plants together for mutual ...

Walking through the Main Street Community Garden you will see many iterations of a well-tended vegetable garden, neat rows of carrots and beets, perfect heads of cabbage. And then there are gardens ...