How do you know when it’s the right time to pick the tomatoes growing on your tomato plants? Believe it or not, there is a bit of an art to knowing when to pluck tomatoes from your plants. And doing so correctly can pay big dividends for both you and your tomato harvest. Not only …
One of the most confusing aspects of gardening is understanding just how growing zones and frost dates work – and how to use them to plant smart for your specific location and landscape. When it comes to growing zones, it is certainly understandable how and why they can be so puzzling. In some growing zones …
One of the best ways to ripen late season fruit and vegetables is with a simple DIY harvest rack. And creating one at home couldn’t be easier! Harvest racks are perfect for ripening tomatoes, peppers, and fruits such as peaches, cherries and plums. And they are also great for curing everything from garlic to potatoes …
Gardening with chickens might just be one of the best partnerships that could ever exist for both the home gardener, and the chickens! Raising chickens and having productive gardens and flowerbeds go hand in hand. In fact, it is one of the finest examples of pure sustainability and permaculture you will ever find. The chickens …
When it comes to how to best harvest a garden, when and how you pick your produce makes a huge difference. And not just for how much plants will produce, but for how long they will stay in production as well! With the exception of determinate vegetable plants that bear their fruit all at once …
Summer is here, and that means it is time to harvest, cure and store the garlic that was planted last fall. And, that means its also time to select the best bulbs from the harvest to plant again this fall! Hardneck garlic is a wonderfully simple and delicious crop to grow in the home garden. …
When it comes to delicious easy-grow crops for the garden – it is hard to beat growing turnips from seed! Turnips are a great addition to any garden plan. This ultra-nutritious crop has been grown around the world for thousands of years. And, it continues to be a popular garden crop today as well. Turnips …
There is nothing quite like growing heirloom sweet corn in the garden. It is one of the best ways to experience the true taste of summer freshness. The sugary sweet taste of a just-picked ear of heirloom sweet corn is almost too good to be true. Especially when compared to the ears of corn found …
There is no need to wait until summer – get your garden season off to an early start this year by growing a few cool-weather spring vegetable crops! Many vegetables actually grow better in the cooler temperatures of spring. In fact, they thrive in it. Some crops can be planted as early as 4 to …
When growing heirloom tomatoes, gardeners need to prepare themselves for a bit of an explosion. As in an explosion of flavor! Heirloom tomatoes have taken the vegetable gardening world by storm over the last decade. Old-time varieties, once phased out in favor of more “standardized” commercial tomatoes, are now being rediscovered and grown again. Growing …