It's never too late in the season to plan a new vegetable garden, even if it's the heat of summer. You can always plant a fall garden or decide how you want to change your garden next spring. Growing your own vegetables gives you time to outside and it's extremely satisfying to … [Read more...]
How to Grow Malabar Spinach
I learned about this plant when my mom first showed it to me in her garden. She called it climbing spinach, and it was growing all over her garden. Others call it heat tolerant spinach, or vine spinach. Turns out that Malabar spinach is not an actual spinach plant. Basella alba … [Read more...]
How to Get Rid of Armyworms in your Garden
It's so exciting when you spot your first red tomato of the season. But when you see an armyworm caterpillar in your vegetable garden, there is no time to spare. They can devour a tomato plant in record time. They don't discriminate. They will eat the leaves and the fruit, red … [Read more...]
No Dig Vegetable Gardening for Beginners
Intimidated by the thought of starting your first vegetable garden? Starting from scratch can be a daunting task for any gardener. Where should I put the garden? Do I have to clear a space in my yard? These are all questions I asked myself before making my first venture into … [Read more...]
5 Tips To Grow Delicious Tomatoes In Containers
Craving garden fresh tomatoes, but don’t have the space for a garden? Consider growing your tomatoes in containers! You may have heard that getting a good crop off your container grown tomatoes can be difficult. Sometimes the plants won’t produce many tomatoes, and the ones … [Read more...]
How to Grow the Happiest Sage Plant Ever + 3 Amazing Health Benefits
by Jodie Perry Have you ever seen a sage plant that just LOVES the spot where it grows? I’m talking about sage that grows wildly in all directions. Sage that sprouts huge, succulent leaves. Sage bursting with purple blossoms that look like it’s putting on a fireworks … [Read more...]
How to Plant Tomatoes for a Stronger, Healthier Plant
If you grow tomatoes and start with starter plants instead of seeds, there are several good tricks to help grow healthier tomato plants. … [Read more...]
Brassica Vegetables: All Domesticated from This Plant
You've probably been growing these vegetables or buying them at the grocery store for years and years, but did you realize how closely that they are all related? … [Read more...]
Grow a Cancer-Destroying Super Food at Home: Container Gardens of Turmeric
Cancer is a serious disease and most of the available treatments are very harsh on the body. The best course of action is always one of prevention. We know that one of main prevention factors under our control is our diet. Stacking your diet with superfoods is a sound … [Read more...]
Easy Ways to Magnify the Cancer-Fighting Potency of Your Tomatoes
Most of us know people that had or have cancer. It's a disease that can have many causes and can affect any area of the body. Two of my grandparents had cancer, along with a friend and the mother of another friend. It's a scary disease and one that has harsh conventional … [Read more...]
How to Grill Baby Bok Choy
If you’ve never grilled bok choy, you’re in for a treat. It’s a cruciferous vegetable, grouped with cabbages. Bok choy is actually a non-heading Chinese cabbage. It may remind you a bit of celery with its stalks. The flavor of bok choy is not as strong as cabbage and makes for a … [Read more...]
7 Habits of Highly Productive Gardeners
The top performers in any field do things a little- or a lot- differently than you and I. That's why they are at the very top of their game. This is as true of gardening as any other pursuit. Aside from the patience, persistence and consistency that any gardener must possess to … [Read more...]
How to Choose Plants for Your First Vegetable Garden
If you haven’t made the plunge yet into growing your first vegetable garden, you may feel overwhelmed. On our site you’ll find dozens of articles on how to create a garden bed and prepare your soil. But if you need guidance on what type of vegetable plants to choose for … [Read more...]
The Best Companion Plants for your Vegetable Garden
Companion planting is a gardening technique designed to maximize the benefit derived from each plant. In other words, companion plants may repel damaging pests, attract beneficial insects, or improve plant flavor or growth. Knowing what to plant next to your vegetable crops will … [Read more...]
Branch out from Broccoli: How to Grow Broccoflower and Romanesco
Two similar vegetables are sometimes called broccoflower. One is a trade-marked hybrid between broccoli and cauliflower, richer in vitamin A than either of its parents and also well endowed with vitamin C. Its cauliflower-shaped yellow-green heads have a sweet cauliflower-like … [Read more...]
27 Weird Ways to Use Cucumbers
On a salad or as a snack, cucumbers are refreshing and healthy. In fact, they contain a lot of the nutrients you need, like vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and C; also zinc, potassium, iron, calcium, folic and more. They are very easy to grow in your home garden, or … [Read more...]
How to Grow Kalettes: New Superfood, the Kale and Brussels Sprouts Vegetable Hybrid
Kalettes, also known as BrusselKale and Lollipop Kale, have tall erect stems ringed with small rosettes of kalelike leaves. Their flavor is mild and nutty, growing sweeter after frost. Seeds are a little more expensive, since kalettes are a trademarked novelty vegetable. Kalettes … [Read more...]
The 7 Deadly Sins of Tomato-Growing & How to Avoid Them
By Jodie Perry One of the most satisfying feelings of home gardening is to harvest a bumper crop of beautiful tomatoes at the end of the season. Tomatoes are one of the most popular plants grown by home gardeners because they are relatively easy to grow and they produce a … [Read more...]
Why You Need Fertile Soil to Successfully Grow Vegetables
By Phil Nauta, author and gardening educator Important: We’ve just learned that your chance to get into Phil’s comprehensive online organic gardening course ends this Monday night at 9pm Eastern Time. He’s been kind enough to give me a coupon code for you to get 30% off the … [Read more...]
How to Grow Broccolini
Broccolini is a trademarked hybrid between American standard broccoli and a Chinese broccoli called gailan. Instead of forming one large head it bears many small tender side shoots, which have a subtle sweet flavor with peppery overtones. Broccolini stems don't have to be peeled. … [Read more...]
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