Cabbage Looper: How To Identify & Control These Cabbage Pests
Cabbage is a must-have vegetable in your home veggie patch. It’s a robust plant that is among the easiest foods to grow, rewarding you with crunchy goodness in as little …
Cabbage is a must-have vegetable in your home veggie patch. It’s a robust plant that is among the easiest foods to grow, rewarding you with crunchy goodness in as little …
Broccoli may not be the fastest-growing food in the garden, yet it is easy to grow and it gives generously. If you can wait out the ‘days to maturity’, you’ll …
Companion planting is all the rage among backyard gardeners. It’s part science with a generous pinch of trial and error, followed by passing down the tradition of what works. After …
As garden season approaches, it’s time to think through your growing strategy. One of the best ways to get a head start on food and flower production is to learn …
Once dubbed the “elixir of life”, lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) is an ancient herb from the mint family that has been used as a medicine, and as a flavoring for …
Once the garden gets producing, everything starts coming in at once. Without some initial planning, your countertops will soon become overwhelmed with home-grown bounty. The good news is there are …
Native to the Mediterranean, rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is a woody perennial herb in the mint family. The plant’s genus, ros marinus, is derived from Latin and means “dew of the …
Kristen Krash and her partner Juan Santillan moved from Washington DC to the sub-tropics of Ecuador in 2016 and began regenerating 3 hectares of deforested and degraded land. Five years …
Gardening can be fun and easy, or complicated and frustrating. It all depends on the quality of your experience in the garden. In part, the abundance your garden produces is …
If you’ve ever been told that gardening is easy, you’ve been lied to. The truth often hurts, doesn’t it? Or perhaps the truth has been stretched and contorted so much …
Green beans can climb to great heights (8-12 feet tall!), or remain close to the ground in an easy-to-pick bush form. This makes them quite versatile in the garden, allowing …
When I moved into my second-story apartment downtown, it was the first time in my life that I didn’t have a yard. I had no patch of grass to call …
Although the gardener grows plants as a source of food and beauty, it’s easy to forget that the plant’s sole purpose in life is to reproduce. Bolting – or going …
Is that one ripe? Can I pick that yet? How can you tell if it’s ready? To all of my new gardening friends out there, let me put your worries …
There is no need to wonder why growing strawberries is so popular. They’re extremely rewarding, not just in harvest size but in looks, and incredibly easy to grow. Their small …
Every year we gardeners spend the entire growing season holding our breath. Seriously, we do. Think about it for a moment. We wait patiently in the spring, fingers crossed, hoping …
Purple! Yes, purple. You need more of it in your garden. We’ve all got plenty of green going on, but what you really need is more purple. You may not …
Long winters and short summers don’t exactly make for the most productive growing seasons. Yet, that is exactly where some of us are at: facing short growing seasons in colder …
Companion planting is an inexact science. There are plenty of unknowns in this arena. Surprisingly, we still have a patchy knowledge of the interactions between different plants. But what experienced …
Have you noticed how we’ve become obsessed with microbiomes over the past decade? Whether it’s the one residing in our gut or the one that’s below our feet, microbiome studies …
There are a range of different onions to grow in your garden – from large bulbing onions, to red onions, to scallions. But when choosing which onions to grow, and …
Following a plant spacing guide to plan your garden is like copying a recipe in a cookbook. Your harvestable results will vary based on personal skills and ingredients – the …
A new year means a fresh green start to your garden. The land of opportunity and of glorious harvests. Planning for the best is always an optimistic view to strive …
Getting more value from your garden produce or farmers’ market haul is always the goal, and few kitchen hacks have a higher return on investment than fermenting. Small batch fermentation …