We’re only about nine weeks away from traditional pea-planting time (St. Patrick’s Day) and the beginning of a new growing season. It’s not too soon to think about what to buy, order, or make plans to plant while the selection is best. Especially with sought-after new varieties, supplies are often limited. For […]
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.
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.