Home gardening is a great hobby for the young and old alike. The eggplant is a great choice for the gardener wishing to expand on the list of crops to grow. It is fun to grow and has several recipes ...

Delay planting eggplants in the garden until early April. Eggplants are stunted or damaged by temperatures below 55 degrees, and we usually still have cool nights through March. Other heat-loving ...

A reader asks for advice on rose care. Let’s begin the second week of April. That’s when I feed all roses, no matter what kind, with one cup of 5-10-10 fertilizer per plant. This is followed by ...

Now’s the time to plant peppers and okra, and it’s your last chance to plant tomatoes with some expectation that you will produce and ripen a crop before the hot weather shuts down production. For all ...