Brussels sprouts, with their stalks full of tiny cabbages, can be grown in nearly any USDA Zone. However, the planting time per zone may vary, as may the amount of water it needs and the degree of ...

EARLY MAY IS a great time to plant cabbage-family vegetables such as kohlrabi, broccoli and Brussels sprouts, and most nurseries have a great selection of starts ready for planting. One of my ...

This cold weather is giving me the itch to do some seed starting. Especially since I’ve chosen to pretty much shelter in place until the recent COVID-19 outbreak dies down. But it’s way too early to ...

Demonstration of how a brussel sprout plant growing from a seed to mini-size sprouts in this time lapse. The seed quickly sprouted in potting-mix soil. Plant was then slowly developing, springing with ...

This has been a banner year for lilac blooms, but if you don’t prune, next year could be a dud. That’s because the trees often exhaust themselves forming seed and then take a year off from heavy ...

The little shoots came up by surprise, under the "Peggy Martin" and "Burgundy Iceberg" roses, a few weeks after I emptied the compost bin along the back fence line. Squash, I reckoned. I had no idea ...