Every year, gardeners everywhere sow seeds indoors. After all, starting your own seedlings offers a host of benefits over buying them. But there are three things you need to do before you put those te ...

If you still haven’t tried mycorrhizae, consider this your wake-up call – your plants are missing out! Your vegetables, your ...

Now, I know very few of us are planting our tomatoes outside in February. But it’s best to get everything ready ahead of time ...

Learn the ins and outs and the pros and cons of the popular new snail seed-starting method and give it a try in your garden this year.

As a kid, I always knew when we had reached the heart of winter. I’m not talking about the holidays but that long, empty stretch that comes after. It’s during those cold winter days when words like ...

There’s something about growing tomatoes that begs for experimentation. Rarely do we get excited about a new carrot variety or see all the green beans in a catalog and think, “Ooh, I wish I had more ...

Are you planning on starting seeds this spring? Before you wait much longer, you’ll want to see if any of your seeds fall on this list. Otherwise, you may end up staring at pots of dirt with nary a ...

Hey there, my name is Tracey. I’m the editor-in-chief here at Rural Sprout. Many of our readers already know me from our popular Sunday newsletters. (You are signed up for our newsletters, right?) ...

If you happened to be walking behind me last week at the garden center, I’m sure you would have clearly heard me mumbling: I hope nobody buys this! Yeah, this one won’t even make it a month. Who ...

Let’s take a look at Oregon Spring, the tomato variety created at Oregon State University specifically for the short, cool summers of the Pacific Northwest. Whether you live in a hardiness zone that ...