There’s nothing quite like pulling a homegrown carrot from the soil for a winter meal. If you’ve never managed this feat before, perhaps this will be your year! Overwintering root vegetables is easier ...

A sudden late frost can wipe out weeks of careful gardening in a single cold night, yet the real danger rarely appears above ...

Root vegetables thrive in cooler weather, and many gardeners don't realize that this also makes them perfect for fall planting and extended harvesting. "Fall gardening not only takes advantage of warm ...

Root crops have long been popular with gardeners. While our ancestors dug wild roots to supplement their diets, modern humans have spent decades breeding and selecting root crops to develop the ...

You think all corn roots are the same? Then you’ve likely never paid close attention to roots on corn exhibited at county fairs. This summer, check out a county fair with 4-H crops on display, ...

Do you think of root crops as boring, old-fashioned and not very trendy? Well, maybe they don’t deserve their shabby reputation and are becoming more popular among home gardeners and picky eaters.

Our root-cellar-in-a-box overflows with potatoes. Without a cellar, what’s an approachable way to store my root crops through winter? Build a root vegetable storage box for a small-scale way to ...

It's especially helpful for growing root vegetables.

A new technique may make it easier to selectively breed crop plants for better, deeper roots. The non-destructive process involves quickly checking a plant's leaves to see how far down its roots go ...