If you’ve ever had deformed, or forked carrots because you grew them in a rocky garden bed, you may want to try growing these root veggies in pots instead. Whether you have a ga ...

Q: I just wanted to drop you a line to say my wife and I enjoyed your article on millennials and gardening. It was timely because just this week, our daughter sent us a picture of her first carrot ...

A biennial is a plant that grows for two years before producing new fruit or seeds. Carrots are biennials, but that label refers to their seeds rather than their roots. The carrot root is typically ...

Growing carrots from seed is something even beginning gardeners can do successfully. And homegrown carrots come in an assortment of fantastic colors—orange, purple, red, yellow, and white—and are much ...

Each year, on our fruit-and-vegetable farm in New England, my family covers about a quarter of our 50 acres with plastic mulch. Rolls of it, five feet wide and 4,000 feet long, sit on a machine that ...

China has led the world in using plastic-film mulch to increase the productivity of its crops, and now it needs to lead the world in removing the plastic residue damaging its croplands, according to a ...

Growing carrots from seed can give you a harvest of sweet roots way better than store-bought with these growing tips. Growing ...