While we always hope for adequate rainfall throughout the entire growing season, there will always be certain times each year when the vegetable gardener will need to irrigate the garden.

Planting cool-season vegetables is one way to get a garden going in early spring. Vegetables are grouped into two categories — cool season and warm season — determined by soil, nighttime ...

It is April, and once the soil dries out and the warmer weather comes back, vegetable gardeners will be out working the soil and planting cool-season vegetables. Some of you are also tending to ...

Mugo pines might be the first pruning of the season ... ‘Tis the time of year, the merry month of May, a gardener’s Shangri-La. Enjoy! Submit gardening questions to csumg2@elpasoco.com ...

In the garden, reduce, reuse, and recycle as much as possible. Wash and reuse old seed trays and pots year after ... and what’s in season. Plant your own fruits and vegetables, but only grow ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in April 2019. Vegetable gardens are often arranged in orderly rows, where staked tomatoes are carefully spaced beside straight lines of ...

During the abundance of the growing season ... garden, but the real mastery of growing your own cut flowers is in ensuring that there’s something interesting to cut for the house all year round.

If you don’t have a large space for a vegetable garden, or you are looking to maximize vegetable, herb and flower production in a small space, the square-foot gardening method may be for you.