For some plants, starting seeds in winter indoors is a great way to maximize your gardening season, but other plants won't ...

Depending on your hardiness zone, here's what you can start growing in January to get a jumpstart on your spring garden. Becca Lewis is home maintenance writer who aims to foster confidence in and ...

For many vegetable gardeners, this is perhaps the best season of the year—seed catalog season! Since the first week of January, colorful seed catalogs have begun to appear in my mailbox just as links ...

Squash is a simple crop to grow, but for high yields a little knowledge goes a long way. First off, pumpkins, zucchini, summer squash, and winter squash are all culinary terms that tell us how they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plant winter squash when the weather is above 65 degrees Fahrenheit. In Southern climates, this could be in March, in Northern ...

Butternut squash is a type of winter squash that belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, which also includes pumpkins, zucchinis, and cucumbers. It has a bell-like shape with a bulbous bottom and a long, ...