Root pruning from corn rootworm can cause significant yield loss, up to 15% yield loss for every node pruned back to 1.5" of ...

Although this method of identifying deep-rooting plants was accomplished with corn, shown here on a cloudy summer morning growing at Penn State's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center, it can ...

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 ...

Root vegetables are a great thing to have in the garden during our cool season. Since much of the plant is underground, and ...

You can’t construct a strong building on a weak foundation, and you can’t grow a great corn crop on a weak root system. From freezing temperatures to voracious underground pests and other threats, ...

Root crops are vegetables that we harvest the below-ground portion to eat, such as beets, onions and carrots. But there are other less well-known root crops such as Jerusalem artichokes, horseradish, ...

Many root vegetables are considered “cool weather” crops—they grow lush and juicy when daytime temperatures are in the seventies, but barely muddle through hot weather. Which is why we plant them as ...

If you're working with a relatively small yard and want to be able to grow much of your own food, you may need to grow your plants relatively close together. This works fine for many plant ...

Tap-rooted species may penetrate compacted soils better than fibrous-rooted species and therefore be better adapted for use in "biological tillage". We evaluated penetration of compacted soils by ...

Here's exactly how deep your raised garden beds should be to grow veggies, herbs, and flowers. Growing vegetables, flowers, and herbs in a raised garden bed is a handy solution if you have poor soil ...