America’s Vegetable Garden
May 26th, 2017
No wonder the Salinas Valley region of the central California coast feeds so much of America with fresh vegetables. Conditions are perfect — especially for cool-season crops.
No wonder the Salinas Valley region of the central California coast feeds so much of America with fresh vegetables. Conditions are perfect — especially for cool-season crops.
Vegetables are best harvested at the peak of ripeness, but when’s that? The ideal time to make your picking move varies by crop, so here’s a list of picking tips for the 25 most common garden vegetables.
The conventional wisdom of tilling the garden at the end of season is wrong, at least when it comes to water pollution and managing the No. 1 plant nutrient, nitrogen.
Heirloom tomatoes are supposed to be even more disease-prone than hybrid ones. Yet Heng Lim grows perfectly healthy heirlooms without spraying. How does he do it?
Want to grow some veggies but don’t have much, if any, sunlight? A fair number of vegetables and herbs do reasonably well in shaded to partly shady conditions… especially if you employ a few of these light-maximizing strategies…
Don’t let the lack of a garden stop you from planting vegetables. Most veggies grow perfectly fine in containers. Here’s how to make it work…
Some veggies give way more in return for your investment of time, work and space than others. Here’s a look at my top 10 choices for best payback.
Planting in straw bales is a hot topic lately. Here’s a look at “conditioning” and some other little factoids you ought to know to make this system work.
You might as well get the most production you can out of your vegetable garden if you’re going to the trouble of digging up the ground in the first place. Here are 10 ways that I use…
Home gardeners often give up on fruit fast when they find out how hard it can be to grow a decent apple or peach. What not many realize is that there are lot of much easier fruits to grow that we just don’t know about because they typically aren’t available at the supermarket. Here’s a look at some of the worthy lesser-knowns as recommended by fruitsman extraordinaire Lee Reich…