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Check your local freeze date to choose vegetables for October planting. Fast-maturing cool-season crops are ideal for late fall harvests. Hardy plants like garlic and kale go dormant in winter and ...

August and September are harvest months in most of North America but the season for eating fresh from your own garden doesn't have to end. Here is a list of 25 vegetables you can grow to harvest from ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Severe drought has significantly impacted the growing season and fall harvest in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Warm and dry fall weather has reduced crop quality and yield.

Plant a fall garden right now to enjoy harvesting fresh vegetables in the autumn when the weather cools off. Photo credit: Depositphotos. The days are getting shorter and summer is winding down. Now ...

As the combines start rolling across the country farmers are focused on taking the crops off the land. However, it’s a great time for farmers to also be thinking about planting cover crops to help ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

SALMON, Idaho — Grazing cover crops after grain is harvested in the same field can pay off even where the growing season is short, according to University of Idaho researchers. A UI Extension trial ...