As the growing season approaches, final plans are being made for home gardens. What to plant and where to plant are big questions that require multiple levels of consideration. What to plant requires ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You grew tomatoes successfully in that sunny corner of your garden last year, so why shouldn’t you plant this year’s seedlings in the same spot? It’s ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Today’s topic is crop rotation. Basically you don’t want to plant the same crop in the same area every year. Rotating your crops throughout the garden space will help maintain ...

One of the most common questions asked is "Do I really need to rotate my garden crops?" This is especially a problem in smaller home gardens, but the answer is always yes! There are three main reasons ...

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...

Sugarbeets comprise just a small percentage of Paul Rasgorshek’s overall crop acreage — 175 acres out of a total of 5,200. But that in no way diminishes the value he places upon this crop. "Beets are ...