Like many leafy greens, root veggies, and brassica relatives, turnips are a spring and fall crop, and mature plants can even tolerate a light touch of frost. Check your first and last frost dates in ...

Planting turnip seeds has become a fall tradition even though I can’t say I really enjoy the harvest a little later in the year. I started with this project once I realized turnips were about the only ...

Soil-cross time-lapse of growing a golden ball turnip from a seed to harvest. A turnip seed was sowing into moist soil. It ...

GREENS SEEDS: Lettuce can be direct seeded into the garden now through the end of February. Good cultivars include Black-seeded Simpson, Oakleaf, Redsails, Cos Romaine and Buttercrunch. VEGGIES NOW: ...

Laura Parker’s boots are thick with mud as she moves slowly down the row of sorghum on her farm, High Desert Seed, in the Upper Uncompahgre Valley of southwest Colorado. Hidden on each stalk, beneath ...

Rural farmers preserve the past by saving family seeds, occasionally sharing them with fellow farmers. This exercise is part of the fabric of farms dotting the Carolinas. “Saving seeds is more of a ...