Most garden tool advice assumes you have a shed full of equipment and a free Saturday to use it. This is not that. Here are the four things worth having in a Nevada County kitchen garden — and why everything else is optional.

Every spring the same question surfaces — this is the year the tomatoes work, right? It usually comes down to three things, and none of them are bad luck. Here's what's actually going wrong in Sierra foothills gardens, and how to fix it before the season slips away.

April is one of the most important planting months in the Sierra foothills. Get it right and you're harvesting before summer heat arrives. Miss it and you're waiting until fall. Here's exactly what goes in the ground right now in Nevada County — and what to leave at the nursery for a few more weeks.