Storing Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs

Learn how to store your vegetables, fruits, and herbs—so that they keep longer and stay fresher! Vegeta

Garden Guide Recipe Contest Winners

Enjoy The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide Recipe Contest—and enjoy winning recipes from past years!2016 Garden Guide Recipe ContestThis year, we’re sponsoring an APPLE recipe contest. Send us your

Canning: How to Can Tomatoes

With canned tomatoes, enjoy that garden-fresh tomato taste in sauces, soups and stews all year long! Here’s

Putting the Garden to Bed: Fall Gardening Cleanup Vegetables Herbs Flowers Roses Trees

Fall blazing Carol Preece If you get frost, it’s important to put your garden “to bed.” A th

Fall Foliage: Why Do Autumn Leaves Change Color

Why do autumn leaves change color? What type of trees—and weather—produce the most vivid fall foliage? Read

Protecting Your Garden From Frost

Protect your garden from frost with the different ways through which you can reduce the amount of cooling i

Getting Potatoes Ready for the Root Cellar

Digging potatoes has got to be one of the most pleasurable aspects of gardening. It’s buried treasure! Will

A New Way to Store Beets in the Root Cellar

For many years, I have used very dry sand to store my beets and carrots in buckets in the root cellar.

Cover Crops for U.S. Regional Guide Regional Chart

Once your fall crops are done, plant cover crops to add nutrients back into the soil and give next spring’s

How to carve a pumpkin

Susan Valladao; Carved by Mike Valladao When it comes to pumpkin carving, the idea is to hav

Rodent-proof Flower Bulbs

Robin Sweetser Are you tired of planting tulips and crocus bulbs only to have them disappear

Celery: Bland and Boring? Not So Fast!

Celery. Almost every refrigerator holds a sleeve of it. Raw, it’s a grab-and-go food, with a satisfying

Cranberries are good tasting; good for you. But the season for fresh berries is short.

Liz West. Some rights reserved. Among only a few native North American fruits cultivated co

Planting Garlic in the Fall

Robin Sweetser Fall is traditionally the time to plant garlic in many regions. Just like oni

Fall Garden Chores

Robin Sweetser We finally got a killing frost in mid-October, almost a month later than usua

Where the Wild Things Are: November

Snowy Tree Cricket National Park Service November the first. You’ve unmothballed your winter

Gardening for the Birds

Here are five tips for making your backyard more bird-friendly. It takes more than just hanging a feeder or

Unusual pumpkins and winter squash for Thanksgiving Halloween

Colorful pumpkins, squash and warty gourds are as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey. Doreen G. Howard

Saving Gladiolus

In some places, gladiolas can be left in the ground all winter. In colder climates, though, they would free

[Winter Squash Health Benefits]

Nothing speaks of fall and winter like the appearance of winter squashes and pumpkins in stores, farmers’ m