This guide on how to grow okra will help your care for your okra plants from seeds to harvest. Okra is a southern favorite and a vegetable that can be served up fried or in a number of other tasty ways. Okra loved warm climates, so if you live in an area where the heatRead More
How to Grow Romaine Lettuce
This guide on how to grow romaine lettuce includes tips on planting romaine lettuce, caring for romaine lettuce plants, and harvesting romaine lettuce. If you love fresh salads and would love the convenience of fresh salad greens in your own backyard, planting romaine lettuce is ideal for you. Romaine lettuce is an easy leafy greenRead More
How to Grow Garlic
This guide on how to grow garlic includes tips on planting garlic cloves, growing garlic in containers, and harvesting garlic. Garlic is one of the most flavorful and versatile plants you can grow. The smallest clove of garlic adds so much flavor, so it is a little plant that goes a very long way. IfRead More
How to Grow Green Onions
If you want green onions in your garden, this guide on how to grow green onions will help with everything from planting onion seeds or sets to harvesting green onions. Green onions are such an easy plant to grow, and they can be used in so many ways. Whether you want to add them toRead More
How to Grow Bok Choy
If you want to try growing bok choy in your garden, this guide on how to grow bok choy will help you with every step from starting seeds to harvest. Bok choy, or Chinese cabbage as it is also called, is the perfect green to grow if you live in an area with cooler temps!Read More
How to Grow Jalapenos
If you want to try growing jalapenos in your garden, this guide on how to grow jalapenos will help you with every step from planting to harvest. Whether you are a fan of homemade salsa or just love to add a little spice to your food, jalapenos are the way to go. Growing your ownRead More
How to Grow Snow Peas
These tips on how to grow snow peas will help you care for snow pea plants from seed to harvest. If you live in a cooler climate and think you can’t successfully grow vegetables, think again. Snow peas aren’t just called snow peas to sound cute, but because they can actually survive quite chilly temperaturesRead More
How to Grow Sugar Snap Peas
Here are some tips on how to grow sugar snap peas, including planting sugar snap pea seeds and seedlings, how to care for sugar snap pea plants, and how to harvest sugar snap peas. Can you remember picking sugar snap peas with your grandmother? It seems as though at one time, sugar snap peas whereRead More
How to Grow Baking Pumpkins
This guide on how to grow baking pumpkins includes how to plant, care for, and harvest baking pumpkins. When we talk about baking pumpkins, we are talking about the small, often softball size pumpkins also called pie pumpkins or sugar pumpkins. These baking pumpkins are given the name due to the fact that they areRead More
How to Grow Jack-o’-lantern Pumpkins
These tips on how to grow Jack-o’-lantern pumpkins include how to start Jack-o’-lantern pumpkins, how to transplant Jack-o’-lantern pumpkins, and how to care for Jack-o’-lantern pumpkins. Carving your own Jack-o’-lantern is fun, but did you know that growing your own jack o lantern pumpkins can be a great time, too? Growing your own Jack-o’-lantern pumpkins isn’t just rewarding,Read More
10 Most Popular Vegetables to Grow in a Garden
Here are the most popular vegetables to grow in a garden. Check out why they are so popular and find gardening tips for each vegetable. Plucking fresh tomatoes from the garden and cutting lettuce leaves for tonight’s salad are just a couple simple pleasures that come growing vegetables in a backyard garden. Having a vegetableRead More
Vegetable Container Gardening
These tips on vegetable container gardening include container sizes and planting recommendations for common vegetables. Almost all vegetables can be grown in containers and vegetable container gardening can yield a ton of veggies to boot! One of the best parts of vegetable container gardening is that if a plant isn’t doing so hot in aRead More
7 Tips for Successful Spring Gardening
Get your vegetable garden off to a good start with these tips for a successful spring garden. Have you been disappointed with your garden in the past? There are a number of factors that can hurt your spring garden. Use the tips below to ensure you start you get your garden off to a goodRead More
Best Vegetables for Fall Gardening
Here is a list of the best vegetables to grow in our gardens this fall. Summer is a great time to plant a lot of vegetables, but winter gardening has some stand out winners. Fall gardening can start in September in many areas, and in October in the South and Southwest. What’s unique about this growingRead More
How to Grow Green Bell Peppers
It is quite easy to grow bell peppers in your garden or in containers on your patio. Below you will find tips for how to grow green bell peppers from planting the seeds to harvesting the ripe peppers. Green bell peppers are excellent when served in salads, used with shish kabobs, or served with freshRead More
Tips for Growing Broccoli in Your Garden
One of the best things about growing broccoli in your garden is that is is so hardy it can withstand a frost of light snow. You can start broccoli seeds indoors, then harden them off after the last hard freeze and transplant them outdoors. Broccoli has gotten a bad rap over the years, as childrenRead More
How to Start Square Foot Gardening
Have you ever wanted to grow a large vegetable garden but don’t necessarily have acres of land to work with? Most gardeners don’t know that you can grow a ton of veggies in a small amount of space using the Square Foot Gardening method. This method is one of the easiest ways to grow an herb andRead More
6 Fall Garden Plants for a Bountiful Harvest
When you think of gardening, do you only think of spring? If so, you’re not alone since that seems to be a pretty common thought process. Moving past spring and planting a fall garden is a great way to continue growing amazing fresh foods for your family once the temperatures turn colder. If you’re planningRead More
6 Great Tips for Growing Beets
While beets don’t look like much on the outside, on the inside they’re a vibrant color. Usually they’re red, but brilliant golden and bright white beets also exist! Whatever variety you plan to grow, homegrown beets can make a delicious addition to recipes or can be made into homemade dehydrated beet chips! You’ll be ableRead More
6 Awesome Tips for Growing Cabbage
Use these tips for growing cabbage in your garden to add cabbage to your cold-weather crops. Do you like having cabbage in your salads? Maybe you love to make homemade sauerkraut! However you like to eat cabbage, your cabbage-based recipes are sure to be extra tasty if you’re using cabbages you grew in your ownRead More
