Have you ever gotten frustrated trying to plant small seeds directly into your garden or thin-out plantings of radishes, carrots or beets? Well, here is an idea you might want to try. Why not prepare ...

Last week I planted my fall garden, and just in time too! All this fall like rain is just what those seeds need to germinate and pop out of the ground. In this season’s garden, I used something a ...

FAIRBANKS — Have trouble thinning your carrots or radishes? Have kids who want to help plant seeds in the garden? Try using seed tape this year. Seed tape is a strip of biodegradable material that has ...

If you’ve ever direct-seeded lettuce, carrot, radishes, onions, or beets into your garden, you know how challenging it can be to handle those tiny seeds, and to get them only where you want them. This ...

You can simplify your planting of fall-winter vegetables, especially plants grown from tiny seeds such as carrots, radishes, turnips and others, by planting these from seeds tapes rather than trying ...

Question: I am browsing seed catalogs for the upcoming gardening season. Can you explain some terms for me? What is ‘treated seed’? How about ‘pelleted seed’? And then there’s ‘seed tape.’ Please ...

It can be difficult to space tiny seeds, such as carrots, in the garden. One solution is seed tape, a paper-thin strip with seeds embedded (and mostly evenly spaced) into the nearly translucent strip ...

Carrots may seem like one of the simplest vegetables to grow, but they can be surprisingly fussy. The number-one culprit? Soil. Carrots need loose, sandy, stone-free soil so their roots can grow long ...