Vegetables and Herbs for Shade
The title above is nearly an oxymoron. There really are very few vegetables and herbs that enjoy shade. At the veryContinue Reading
Category: Vegetables
When Is It Safe To Plant Out Vegetables?
Gardeners go through the same questioning every spring: when can they sow or plant out vegetables? Of course, most plantsContinue Reading
The Long and Short (Days) of Onions
When you plant onions (Allium cepa), you expect them to provide you with nice fat bulbs at the end ofContinue Reading
Rhubarb: for the Patient Gardener
Rhubarb is a rather curious plant. Since it’s grown for its edible leaves (actually, we consume only the leaf stalkContinue Reading
Growing Your Own Quinoa
You’ve almost certainly of this cereal crop from the Andes. In fact, many readers have probably tasted quinoa in aContinue Reading
Skip a Year to Control Carrot Flies
Sometimes the easiest way to regain control over carrot rust flies, Psila rosae, also called carrot root maggots, is simplyContinue Reading
When “Annual” Vegetables Survive the Winter
If you didn’t thoroughly clean out your vegetable garden last fall (which, incidentally, you certainly don’t need to do, asContinue Reading
The World’s Weirdest Tomato?
Have you ever seen or grown a ‘Reisetomate’? It’s a tomato cultivar with strange, bumpy fruit, like a cluster ofContinue Reading
The Tall and Short of Tomatoes
Determinate and indeterminate are two terms you’ll often see applied to tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) and they cause a bitContinue Reading
Temperature Chart for Germinating Vegetables and Herbs
Are you getting ready to sow vegetable and herb seeds indoors? It can be very handy to know what temperaturesContinue Reading