If you’re a gardener who loves tomatoes, you know the luscious pleasure of picking a ripe tomato and eating it, with juice running down your chin. If you’re a gardener who grows tomatoes, you know that tomatoes are susceptible to a slew of problems. You know the challenge and … [Read more...]
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Your Garden
The Center for Science in the Public Interest placed sweet potatoes at the top of its list of healthy foods. High in carotenoids, vitamin C, potassium, and fiber, sweet potatoes are also rich in complex carbohydrates, an essential component of a healthy diet. Because a sweet … [Read more...]
How to Grow Swiss Chard
When dietitians talk about leafy green vegetables, Swiss chard is at the top of the list. Related to beets (and sometimes called leaf beet), Swiss chard as nutritious as spinach and easier to grow. One cup of chard has 300 times the recommended daily amount of vitamin K. It’s … [Read more...]
Rhubarb for the Home Garden
Rhubarb is a perennial crop, which means it comes back year after year without replanting. It thrives in temperate climates; it needs winter temperatures below 40 degrees F and summer temperatures averaging 75 degrees or lower. The leafstalks of rhubarb are edible, but the leaves … [Read more...]
Everyone Can Grow Zucchini
Every summer the following joke circulates in Maine: Why do Mainers lock their cars in August? So people won’t dump zucchinis in the back seat! Zucchini is an easy and bountiful crop to grow. In fact, tasty slender zooks turn into oversized baseball bats almost overnight if … [Read more...]
How to Prevent and Control Pea Diseases
Eight Tips for Growing Healthy Peas You have to pick peas and eat them right away to get that fresh-picked, homegrown flavor. That’s why peas are worth space in any home garden. They are, however, susceptible to a number of plant diseases. Before you get out the insecticide … [Read more...]
Tomatoes Grow Great in Containers
Love fresh-picked tomatoes but don’t have any land to grow them? Don’t despair. If you have a sunny spot to put a container you can grow tomatoes, and it’s just as easy as growing them in the ground. It’s a pretty simple formula for growing tomatoes in containers: Right … [Read more...]
Hot or Sweet, You CAN Grow Peppers in Containers
Peppers can be a little tricky to grow. So, even if you have a garden, you might want to grow your peppers in containers. That’s because you can control temperature, water, and fertilizer more easily in containers—which means you might just get better pods from peppers planted in … [Read more...]
How To Grow Potatoes In A Container
If you’ve ever had a homegrown potato, you know that they are a lot tastier than those you purchase at the grocery store. The flesh is crisp and the flavor of homegrown varieties is superb. Potatoes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. They do well in most garden soils … [Read more...]
How to Grow Patio Tomatoes
About Patio Tomatoes The Patio and Patio Hybrid tomato varieties give away their gardening instructions in their names. They are designed for growing on patios, decks or balconies in containers. They grow to about two feet tall, with plenty of dark green foliage. These dwarf … [Read more...]
How to Grow Spinach
Spinach is an edible flowering plant from the goosefoot family and was native to Asia. Spinach is a popular vegetable loaded with nutritional value and considered by nutritional experts to be a "super food". Superfoods are foods that are known to help reduce cholesterol, the risk … [Read more...]
Growing Potatoes in Your Vegetable Garden
Growing potatoes in your vegetable garden Potatoes are a year-round staple for many families around the world. Potatoes come in over a hundred varietals in all kinds of sizes, shapes, colors and flavors. There is a potato to suit almost everyone's taste. The edible part of a … [Read more...]
Growing a Plethora of Peppers
Pepper Varieties Peppers comprise the most diverse and varied tribe within the nightshade family with regard to color, shape and flavor. Peppers can be sweet, warm or hot, their shapes range from long and pointed to the familiar short, squat blocky appearance of the bell, and … [Read more...]
It’s Fun to Grow Radishes
If you want almost instantaneous satisfaction, grow radishes! They are fast and easy to grow, and so pretty. Even if you don’t like to eat radishes, it’s worthwhile growing them because they’re so much fun. Radish Varieties Globe and cherry belle radishes are the traditional … [Read more...]
How to Grow Tomato Plants in Containers
Growing In Containers Container gardening is a great way to garden when you don’t have much space, and tomatoes are the king of containers. The structure and limited space actually encourages upward growth for this vining plant, and when you combine a good tomato pot with a … [Read more...]
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