Grow Food

When you think about something as old as gardening, rarely do you think of the word “trendy.” But just like with everything else, trends pop up in the gardening community. …

Whether you’re holding on to the last few weeks of summer for dear life or praying for it to hurry up and end, one thing is clear – August begins …

Crop rotation is the practice of rotating the types of vegetables you grow in a given section of your garden each year. The idea behind it is to reduce the …

Did you know you might be contributing to the spread of diseases in your garden? We all like to think we would never be so careless. After all, we spend …

Isn’t it funny how, as gardeners, our favorite thing to grow is often the most problematic? I probably don’t even need to say it to know we’re all thinking about …

It’s summertime and the living is easy. For someone. Somewhere. Or at least that’s what the song says. In my neck of the woods, I’m sweating like crazy, up to …

When was the last time you had a tomato that was absolute perfection? I’m talking about the kind where you put great slabs of it on a BLT, and as …

You’ve been planning for this day since late winter, poking cream-colored seeds into the dirt. You encouraged them under their grow lights when they were skinny little seedlings. Then, when …

I don’t know what it is about tomatoes, but they bring out the competitive gardener in me. When it comes to my tomato plants, I want earlier tomatoes, more tomatoes, …

As gardeners, there’s often this weird belief that if we don’t get our gardens planted within weeks of that all-important final frost date, the whole season is lost. But that’s …

Tomatoes are the drama queens of the vegetable garden. One minute, they’re growing along nicely, filling out with flower clusters and beautiful fruit; the next, they’re throwing a full-blown tantrum. …

If you’re growing tomatoes (whether it’s your first year or your fiftieth), you’ve probably noticed that as the season progresses, the leaves towards the bottom of the plant turn yellow. …

Your tomatoes are doing great! They’re filling out and growing sturdy and strong, and you’ve got blossom clusters popping up. It won’t be long until you’re enjoying fresh tomatoes. But …

Okay, I admit that headline is a bit much, but it’s true. Buzzing your tomatoes at noon will lead to a larger harvest of fruit. You may have even heard …

Indeterminate tomatoes are like that friend who runs marathons. They just keep going. Once they finish one marathon, they’re already training for the other. From the time you pick that …

Last weekend, my friend and I were at Home Depot picking up bags of Quikrete. He was helping me reinstall my clothesline after a tornado went through my yard in …

Determinate tomatoes are the scrappy, short guys of the tomato world. These compact, bushy varieties have been bred to grow to a certain height, set all their fruit within a …

There’s nothing quite like the taste of the first strawberry picked straight from the vine. Reaching under those scratchy leaves to pick a ruby-red berry, warmed by the sun. With …

If you’re tired of flavorless mesclun mixes that spoil the day after you bring them home from the store, you’ll want to keep reading. Even if, like me, you’re a …

If asked to sum up zucchini in one word, I would say “prolific.” It seems as though once it takes off, it doesn’t stop until that first frost at the …

I’ve been eating mini cucumbers from the grocery store all winter long. But I ate my very first homegrown cucumber of the season the other day, and it stopped me …

We humans have been growing food for a hot minute. Roughly 10,000 – 12,000 years, depending on who you ask, but who’s counting? We’ve gotten pretty good at it, too. …

Aside from daffodils, rhubarb is my favorite “spring is really happening” marker. When I start seeing rhubarb at the farmer’s markets, I know winter is well and truly over. (Except …

Whether you purchased tomato seedlings from a nursery or grew them from a seed yourself, the moment of truth comes when you plant them out in the garden. Will they …