Starting a garden this year but don’t know where to begin? Growing lettuce for your own homegrown salad is a great place to start! When Should You Grow Lettuce? Lettuce is a cool weather crop, grown in both spring and fall. It can tolerate frosts (which can happen under 40 degrees F) and young plants…
Whether you’re limited on garden space or you simply want to get a harvest from the space you do have, one of the best things you can do is to plant high production crops. What is a High Production Crop? Growing high production crops for a home garden doesn’t mean you only plant crops that…
If you grew up thinking that spinach only came in a can, you’re in good company. Pop-eye taught us to gulp it down, no matter how it tastes, because spinach is good for us, right? But, if you’ve ever had spinach out of a can, then you know why they needed a cartoon to help…
Are onions staples in your kitchen? Do you want to grow more of them in your garden, like I do? We currently have over 300 planted in our garden! After harvest, I store onions whole for a few months and then freeze and dehydrate the rest. Each year I have a goal to grow enough…
When I talk to new gardeners about what they want to grow in their gardens, broccoli is usually not far behind tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. But growing broccoli isn’t without its problems. Broccoli is a beautiful plant, and we can’t resist the thought of cutting a fresh head to roast, steam, use in salads, or…
Carrots. They’re among the top vegetables gardeners include in their garden plans, but many times gardeners grow dismayed when they bump into problems growing carrots. Carrot growing problems are completely normal, and thankfully most of them can be prevented. In this podcast episode and blog post below, you’ll learn how to prevent or address the…
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