One of the benefits of growing your own fruit and vegetables is having a steady flow of home-grown crops to enjoy throughout fall and winter. Aside from pickling, preserving or freezing a bumper ...

Q: I have been puzzled for years why my harvested onions seem to rot fairly soon in storage. I plant both sweet and yellow ones. I wait until the tops fall over to pull them and let them dry in the ...

To store onions successfully, they first need to be cured properly. At harvest time, carefully dig your onions up and lay the bulbs on the soil surface or on a wire rack. If the weather is wet, dry ...

Are you a first-time vegetable gardener? Here's how to store onions and harvest squash. Jim L. of Windsor asks: This is my first year growing onions.? I grew 3 different kinds. The tops are dying back ...

You might think it is still early to think about vegetable gardening. Of course the average last frost is still a ways off but many plants will tolerate some nighttime freezing and cool temperatures.