Growing crops

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Practical guide to crop rotation, emphasizing its adaptability to even small garden spaces and its benefits for both soil health and crop production.

Learn to plant, grow, and harvest rice in your own backyard Rice comes in long-grain, medium- and short-grain textures. It grows easily in your backyard, in a garden bed or in buckets, given the right amount of soil, water, and other...

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Cover crops serve a number of functions in the garden. They add organic matter, improve the soil's texture and structure, improve the fertility, help prevent erosion and attract pollinating insects. Find out about cover crop planting times in this article.

Furrow irrigation may be the oldest (and least efficient) method of growing crops. Fortunately, there are ways to improve this technique.

Learn about the benefits of tomato companion planting and use it to your advantage to ensure a bumper homegrown crop

The scientific cultivation of lost ancient seed crops has yielded much higher than expected growth rates, challenging assumptions about maize (corn) growth in prehistoric North America.

Most rice varieties require a long, hot growing season. But farmers as far north as Maine are experimenting with short-season heirloom varieties from Japan.

Would you like to grow broccoli, but aren’t sure how? Find instructions for cultivating this nutritious cool weather crop in your garden on Gardener's Path.

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Your tomatoes need more space than you may realize.

Here is a list of 22 crops that you can grow in a small vegetable garden. Even if your garden is small, you can still produce a whole lot of food by growing these!

Vegetable crops have different germination requirements. To ensure success, it's important to know each seed's germination requirements.

Crop rotation is a sustainable agricultural practice of cultivating different crops in succession on the same piece of land. This method can help to improve soil health, increase its nutrient content, and control pests and weeds. For example, after maize, farmers can plant legumes in the same field as it can restore the soil’s nitrogen consumed by the previous crop. What is the purpose of crop rotation? Growing the same crop repeatedly depletes the soil of nutrients. The ancient method of…

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived a nomadic life, hunting for game and foraging for food. Then, several thousand years ago, they stopped. They began domesticating animals, started growing crops, and lived a sedentary lifestyle. The question anthropologists have asked is, why? Learn more about the rise of agriculture, aka the Neolithic Revolution, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

Learn about the connection between food and the environment, including the impacts of food production on climate change, soil, air, water, and more.

In northern Utah, gardening can be challenging for the uninitiated.