Just because a fruit is malformed or “ugly” doesn’t mean you can’t eat it. Don’t waste flawed produce. Cut out any bad parts and eat ugly! This post also goes into reasons why produce develops imperfections in the first place.
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.
Which variety of veggie you grow makes a big difference. Not all tomatoes are created equal. Cornell University has done some excellent work attempting to determine today’s best veggie varieties. Here’s what Cornell recommends…
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?
A “TomTato” (tomatoes and potatoes growing on the same plant) and Kalettes (a new cross between kale and Brussels sprouts) headline the lineup of new edibles hitting the market in 2015.
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.
