How to Store Potatoes
Learn how to cure and store potatoes in a cool, dark place, plus safe options for freezing, dehydrating, and pressure canning your harvest.
Growing Apple Trees in Alabama: Planting and Care
Learn how to grow apple trees in Alabama, including the best planting time, suitable varieties, pollination, soil, watering, pruning, and basic care for a healthy home orchard.
Growing Peas in Alabama: Planting Times, Care, and Harvest
Learn when and how to grow peas in Alabama, including spring and fall planting times, soil prep, watering, trellising, pest care, and harvest tips for cool-season peas.
Growing Sweet Potatoes in Alabama: Planting and Care
Learn when to plant sweet potatoes in Alabama, how to prepare soil, plant slips, water and feed vines, manage pests, harvest, cure, and store the crop.
Growing Corn in Alabama: When and How to Plant
Learn when to plant corn in Alabama, how to prepare soil, space seed, improve pollination, water and feed plants, manage pests, and harvest sweet corn.
Alabama Home Gardening: A Simple Seasonal Guide
Learn the basics of Alabama home gardening, including seasonal planting, soil care, watering, mulch, pests, and simple tips for starting a garden that fits your yard.
When to Plant Spinach in Alabama: Fall and Spring Guide
Learn when to plant spinach in Alabama, how to prepare soil, space seed, water, mulch, manage pests, protect plants from cold, and harvest a healthy fall or spring crop.
When to Plant Turnips in Alabama
Learn when to plant turnips in Alabama, how to prepare the soil, space seed, water, manage pests, and harvest roots and greens in the cool season.
Alabama Planting Zones: A Simple Gardening Guide
Learn how Alabama planting zones work, where USDA Zones 7b through 9b occur, how frost dates affect planting, and why local soil and weather still matter.
Growing Echinacea Coneflowers in Alabama
Learn how to grow echinacea coneflowers in Alabama, including sun, soil, watering, spacing, pruning, wildlife value, and simple care for long-lived blooms.