If you grow your garden from seed, it's always best to plant as many as possible to guarantee the strongest crop. However, according to Ryan McCallister, Head Gardener at Martha Stewart's garden, it's ...

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – This week, we’re focusing on thinning your vegetables as they begin to sprout. We planted carrot and lettuce seeds four weeks ago. It’s natural that some of our seeds will ...

Ah, the first weeks of summer! This is the time of year to thin out those vegetable crops that you started directly from seeds right in the garden. Unless you were exceedingly careful and deliberate, ...

The half-empty seed packets reminding me to thin my seedlings had slumped on the windowsill above my kitchen sink for more than 30 days by mid- May last year. I had planted seeds from each packet in ...

Q: I have something on my strawberries that looks like gray mold. What is it? Will it spread? What can I do about it? A: Surprisingly enough, it's called gray mold. If you would like a fancier name ...

Q: My friend ordered some dream tomatoes from a catalog. All that came were seeds, squares of stuff to put water on and pots to put the plants in. They are coming up, but we have no direction as to ...

Powdery mildew is a fungal disease affecting many plants, causing a white or gray coating on leaves and slowing growth. The fungus thrives in warm, dry weather with high humidity, especially in ...

(1) Self-thinning in a plant population can be described by the path a stand follows over time on a graph of log biomass per unit area ν. log density of survivors. Present knowledge of these paths ...