Vegetable Gardening

All you've ever wanted to know about growing vegetables: starting seeds, saving seeds, planting in raised beds and containers, harvesting your crops, controlling weeds, managing plant pests and diseases, composting, mulching, and irrigating. Learn how to plan your organic vegetable garden around the root depth of your plants, grow edible ground covers and cover crops, and build trellises and vertical gardens. Create a victory garden in your yard!

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When To Harvest Garlic

The Trick of Knowing When to Harvest Garlic

Garlic grows below ground, so it’s not easy to tell when the bulb has matured. What’s the trick of knowing when to harvest garlic? The short answer is: It’s all in the leaves. Read through this guide and you’ll be a pro at timing your garlic harvest!

Most of your favorite garden vegetables won’t survive temperatures below 20°F, so it might seem impossible to do any winter gardening in your climate. But did you know you can cheat winter and grow vegetables all winter long without a greenhouse? Even if your garden experiences sub-freezing temperatures? Here’s how I’ve done it in my high-desert garden every winter.

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How to Cheat Winter So You Can Grow Vegetables Without a Greenhouse

Most of your favorite garden vegetables won’t survive temperatures below 20°F, so it might seem impossible to do any winter gardening in your climate. But did you know you can cheat winter and grow vegetables all winter long without a greenhouse? Even if your garden experiences sub-freezing temperatures? Here’s how I’ve done it in my high-desert garden every winter.

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All the Best Ways to Store Vegetables Over Winter

You can store garden vegetables over winter in a way that maximizes their shelf life, sometimes for months! The key is preparing your produce ahead of time for storage, growing the right varieties to begin with, and paying attention to the kind of temperatures and humidity levels they like. Because surprise: the fridge is not always the best place to keep vegetables.

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Cruciferous Vegetables

Are You Growing These Powerhouse Vegetables?

Did you know that some of the most nutrient-dense vegetables—the so-called powerhouse vegetables—are also the most cold-tolerant? They’re all cruciferous vegetables or leafy greens, and in most hardiness zones, you can grow them all winter long without a greenhouse. You’ll be surprised at which vegetable earned the highest ranking!

Are Carrot Tops Poisonous? Here’s What Science Says

The leaves on your carrots often get a bad rap and end up discarded. But did you know they’re actually loaded with flavor and nutrients? Contrary to popular belief, carrot tops are NOT poisonous, which means YES, you can eat them!

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3 Quick Ways to Ripen Tomatoes Indoors

As the threat of frost approaches, do you still have a few tomato plants hanging on? Rather than waiting for all those green tomatoes to ripen outdoors, bring them inside! Fully developed green tomatoes can be ripened indoors with no difference in quality, taste, or texture from vine-ripened tomatoes. Here are my 3 favorite ways.

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10 Easiest Vegetables to Grow Indoors Year-Round—No Grow Lights Needed!

Growing your own food indoors doesn’t mean you have to invest in expensive grow lights, be limited to mason jar sprouts or windowsill herbs, or clear out a whole room to make it happen. There are many edible plants that can be grown inside the house without a lot of space or effort.

What To Do If Your Tomatoes Keep Splitting or Cracking

Split or cracked tomatoes are a common problem in mid to late summer, and while they’re unsightly, most of the time they’re still edible. Find out why it happens and what you can do to keep your fruits from splitting or cracking.

An Easier Way to Grow Asparagus: Raised Bed Planting

Forget all that digging, mounding, and continual backfilling. Growing asparagus in a raised bed cuts out most of the work of planting and harvesting them, and the extra warmth means they’ll come up sooner in spring too. This step-by-step guide will show you how to plant asparagus for maximum production.

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How To Start a Vegetable Garden Successfully: 10 Tips For Beginners

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10 Vegetable Garden Ideas for a Healthy Harvest

Grow your best garden yet with these 10 vegetable garden ideas! 🌿 Learn expert planting tips, discover the benefits of raised beds, and find out how companion planting can boost your harvest. Whether you're growing seasonal vegetables or practicing organic gardening, these ideas will set you up for success!

What’s the secret to storing homegrown onions so they won’t sprout or mold? Curing. This easy proces

What’s the secret to storing homegrown onions so they won’t sprout or mold? Curing. This easy process is key to making them last many months in the pantry, but it all starts with the harvest. Learn how to tell when your onion crop is ready, what to do with the flower stalks, and how to maximize their shelf life so they stay as fresh as the day you picked them.

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Broccoli Leaves Are Edible

Think it’s weird to eat broccoli leaves? It’s not—the broad outer leaves of the broccoli plant are edible and delicious, and grow so well in the garden that they beg to be used more in the kitchen!

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10 Easiest Vegetables to Grow Indoors Year-Round

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Why Your Carrots Look Wonky: Splits, Twists, and Other Deformities

Do your carrots often look misshapen when you pull them out of the ground? Full of twists, turns, splits, knobs, and tentacles? I often joke that these wonky carrots are simply “organic,” but if every harvest is coming up that way, it’s time to take a closer look at your soil. Here’s what’s happening.