Doug Akers from the cooperative extension service at Purdue University in Indiana suggests straw or shredded leaves for the mulch.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

University of Arizona extension experts say covering plants and small trees with cloth or paper can help prevent frost damage.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

And extension agent Curtis Swift at Colorado State University says people interested in shade planting should also remember something else.

VOA: special.2011.08.02

Susan Trice from the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service says cabbage takes about sixty to ninety days to grow.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The University of Illinois Urban Extension says ever bearers and day neutrals are especially good for home gardens.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

The University of Illinois Extension service says you should harvest beans when the pods are firm and have reached their full length.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Carl Rosen of the University of Minnesota Extension notes that concerns about lead have increased now that more people are planting gardens.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

The extension service says the best formation happens when the soil is between fifteen and twenty-one degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

But John Masiunas of the University of Illinois Extension says it may be best to wait until after the last winter freeze.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Advice about composting can be found from extension services, at garden centers, in books and on the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

The University of Illinois Extension advises getting bare-root roses as close to planting time as you can.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Vincent Fritz of the University of Minnesota Extension suggests that results are far better with small plants.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

The department,through its Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, has been supporting a project in Michigan.That state has a short growing season.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

In fact,a gardener at the Colorado State University Extension says there are between one hundred fifty and two hundred kinds of chili peppers.

VOA: special.2009.04.21