Gardening Tips and How-To Garden Guides

Planting peas. It’s such a simple act, yet it’s become complicated for lots of gardeners. You’ve probably heard the sayings: Plant your peas on St. Patrick’s Day. Plant your peas on Ash Wednesday. If you don’t plant your peas by Easter, you won’t have peas for the Fourth of July.

In the last days of winter, many of us are looking longingly at seed catalogs and planning our gardens. If you have a stash of seed packets, you may be checking the dates and wondering whether you should save some money by planting seeds that were packaged for previous years.

Starting your own garden seeds is a great way to get a jump on the growing season. Here's everything you'll need to start growing your seeds indoors.

Despite the cold February weather, Amanda Miller of Chesapeake Gold Farms in North East, Cecil County, Maryland, is already in the growing mood.

Columnist Joyce Bupp acknowledges the battle within caused by too-warm February weather.

Chomping at the bit to "get out there" in the garden? Here are some ideas to get you through the doldrums that precede spring.

Vertical gardening allows your plants to grow up instead of out by using cages, netting, trellises and/or poles as supports.

What do you know about the seeds you grow and what would you do if those seeds were no longer available?

Now that you've decided to start your own garden, here's how to order the seeds you'll need.