Lettuce and greens are a great addition to your garden! Salad greens purchased from a store can be expensive and sprayed with chemicals that you would rather not eat (not to mention the increasing incidences of food-borne illness). Growing your own will save money and is rewarding! You also have many more options on what…
Green beans can be a beautiful addition to your garden and are great for both fresh eating and preserving. You can either grow pole beans, which is a great way to begin adding in vertical gardening into your space, or bush beans, which will give you a faster harvest. Because green beans can grow in…
Wanting to grow a garden this summer? Most beginning gardeners want to grow cucumbers in their gardens. We slice them for our salads, maybe make pickles, or simply enjoy a refreshing summer snack. Cucumbers are an easy-to-grow crop for a beginner as long as you know the basics on how to grow it and what…
When people begin their gardening journey, one of the first places they start is with tomatoes. While tomato plants can be resilient and forgiving at times, there are some tricks to growing great tomatoes. When should you grow tomatoes? Tomatoes are a warm season crop. They cannot handle a frost so you should wait until…
When an early freeze threatened in mid-October, I was forced to harvest dozens of green tomatoes on my tomato plants. It turns out, I had 40 pounds worth and no idea what to do with them. You see, I am a southern gardener in the hot and humid southeast, and it’s a rare thing for…
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…
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