Not only great in salads, spinach is a cold-hardy leafy green perfect for growing in your garden. Because it prefers moderate temperatures, spinach does wonderfully in early spring or late fall when ...

Malabar spinach, also called climbing spinach, is an unusual but appropriate stand-in for true spinach, especially in the summer when the heat makes it impossible to grow good spinach in the home ...

Cold-season vegetables present gardeners with a peculiar problem, especially in the spring. You might want to add it to your harvest, but the garden isn't really ready — and you may not be motivated ...

Associated PressPopeye ain’t the only bloke who’s gotta have spinach. Some gardeners also crave it, freshly picked. This isn’t spinach season, though. Spinach is sensitive to cycles of night and day, ...

Here is an easy indoor plant project for the dismal winter months: Grow a few pots of fresh spinach. After the seeds are sowed, sit back and watch the plants grow. It's not a project to save money.

November may be late in the gardening calendar, but there is still time to plant vegetables. Do not underestimate the power of late-season sowings, which can provide quick pickings, despite the cold, ...

How is your vegetable garden doing? Most gardeners who planted the recommended tomato varieties in July are harvesting large numbers of tasty Ruby Crush right now and good supplies of Tycoon, ...

Good bugs in the garden? Your landscape should be awash by now in bees, butterflies, moths, and other insects that pollinate our plants and keep pest bugs under control. If not, your yard is likely ...

Want a fresh spinach salad plucked from your own backyard for Christmas? Plant now. Fast-growing and vitamin-packed, spinach thrives in much of the Northwest, where cool fall weather encourages a ...

1. Happy New Year in a few more days! Continue harvesting winter vegetables planted in autumn. Replace those harvested completely, such as spinach, cauliflower, cabbages, radishes, beets and turnips.

Popeye ain't the only bloke who's gotta have spinach. Some gardeners also crave it, freshly picked. This isn't spinach season, though. Spinach is sensitive to cycles of night and day, and summer's ...