Eat Your Weeds Into Submission!
Your garden is overrun with purslane, you can’t see the green lawn for dandelion flowers, your shade bed is aContinue Reading
Category: Vegetables
6 Steps to Growing Great Potatoes
The following article appears on the Eagle Creek Seed Potatoes website and is reused with permission from the author, John Mills. Continue Reading
The Plant Behind the Red-Veined Baby Leaf
If you’ve eaten out in sophisticated restaurant lately, you may well have seen, in your salad or on an appetizer,Continue Reading
New Plants for 2019
There are plenty of new plants that will be showing up in garden centers shortly or that you can orderContinue Reading
Sweet Pepper or Chili Pepper? Different Taste, Same Plant
Sweet pepper and chili pepper: your taste buds tell you instantly they are two different things. One has a mildContinue Reading
Belch No More With Burpless Cucumbers?
You’ve probably noticed that cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) sometimes make you burp. This is due to the presence of cucurbitacin in theContinue Reading
Grow Your Own Tomatoes From Seed: A Guide for Beginners
Gardeners get antsy as March rolls in. The days are getting longer, buds start to swell on the trees outdoorsContinue Reading
Growing Peanuts in a Cold Climate
Question: I’d like to try growing peanuts in my garden in the spring. What are the requirements for this plant? WhereContinue Reading
Timetable for Sowing Vegetables and Herbs
The following list presents about 80 vegetables and herbs with the recommended sowing date for each one. If you seeContinue Reading
2019 Year of the Pumpkin
Every year, the National Garden Bureau, a non-profit organization promoting the pleasures of home gardening, selects one annual, one bulb, oneContinue Reading