Fruits and Vegetables

Guidance on picking the right fruit trees

It will be a while before you can pick your homegrown harvest, but we can offer some guidance when it comes to picking the right fruit trees.

To get a larger plant selection conveniently sent to your home, there is an online market of bulbs, seeds and plants. But how do you know you are ordering quality plants?

As Valentine's Day draws near, many people will be buying flowers for loved ones. However, instead of going to the grocery store this season, you could grow flowers from your home.

Coming in the traditional orange as well as purple, yellow, red and white — once you’ve tried home grown carrots it’s hard to go back to store bought.

Ajay Nair, professor of Horticulture at Iowa State University, discusses the finer points of growing our own carrots.

Honeyberries resemble elongated blueberries, have few pest problems and are easy to grow.

Honeyberries are delicious — and chances are good that you can grow them in your yard!

Cool season crops to plant this September

Grapes are a fun and healthy snack and can grow well in Iowa. Experts have recommendations about which grape varieties to grow and offer best practices for harvesting and producing.