If other vegetables squash your gardening aspirations with poor harvests, try growing summer squash, which is both fast and furiously productive.

Hedge your bets. Plant winter (e.g. delicata, butternut, acorn) and summer squash (e.g.zucchini, patty pan) indoors now in pots and plant some outdoors after the soil warms up to at least 60 degrees.

However, unlike summer squash, winter squash typically have thicker skin—and they take longer to grow. Given this lengthy waiting period, knowing when to plant them is key to a successful harvest.

The good news is that a traditional dedicated space is not needed to grow food.

MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice about container gardens and care of crape myrtles, blue daze plants, trimming palms, azaleas and pentas ...

When planting your containers, be sure to leave about an inch of space at the top. Arrange the taller plants in the center or back and trailing plants along the edges.

Our squash plants in Gandy's Garden are huge and blooming each day, but we haven't seen a lot of fruit yet. That's because the flowers are mostly male to start.

Planting colorful bedding plants in large containers will do just that. Strategically placed where the color will be most appreciated, colorful plants in containers can add the color we crave with ...