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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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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10 Easiest Vegetables to Grow Indoors Year-Round

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.

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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.

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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!

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11 Vegetables You Grow That You Didn't Know You Could Eat

Vegetable “scraps” aren’t just for the compost bin or for soup stock. Go zero waste in the kitchen (and discover new flavors and textures) simply by learning how to use the whole plant from top to tail. You might be surprised by what you can eat from everyday vegetables you already buy or grow!

How to Choose the Best Garlic Varieties For Your Garden

Did you know there are hundreds of garlic varieties out there? Many people are surprised by the sheer number of garlic types available beyond the grocery store. This in-depth guide breaks down the differences between softneck and hardneck, along with the most popular strains from each group so you can find the best garlic to grow in your garden.

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How To Ripen Green Tomatoes

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Tomatoes Not Turning Red? 4 Reasons Why and What To Do

If it seems like your tomatoes are taking their sweet time turning red, weather may have something to do with it. Here are four reasons for the slowdown and what you can do (as well as NOT do) to ripen your tomatoes more quickly.

If you grow your own avocados, you might be wondering… when are they ready to pick? It’s not as simple as giving your fruit a squeeze while they’re on the tree. Because the thing is, avocados actually ripen OFF the tree. Here’s how to tell when your avocados are ready to pick (and how to ripen them faster). Avocado Varieties, Picking Fruit, Grow Avocado, Fruit Picking, Avocado Tree, Garden Harvest

Picking Avocados: Best Way to Tell If an Avocado Is Ripe

If you grow your own avocados, you might be wondering… when are they ready to pick? It’s not as simple as giving your fruit a squeeze while they’re on the tree. Because the thing is, avocados actually ripen OFF the tree. Here’s how to tell when your avocados are ready to pick (and how to ripen them faster).

How to Grow Fava Beans as a Cover Crop

You might be familiar with fava beans as an edible crop, but this legume is more than just that: It’s also a natural organic fertilizer (a green manure) that fixes nitrogen in the soil for other plants to use. By planting fava beans, you can improve soil fertility at the same time without needing to add other fertilizers.

If it seems like your tomatoes are taking their sweet time turning red, weather may have something to do with it. Here are four reasons for the slowdown and what you can do (as well as NOT do) to ripen your tomatoes more quickly.

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Weird-Looking Tomatoes? Why Catfacing Happens and What To Do About It

Anyone who’s grown tomatoes knows it’s rare that we get a crop of perfectly smooth and round fruit in summer. Sometimes they’re bumpy, or lumpy, or so deformed or covered in scars that they become freakish looking. These “Franken-tomatoes” aren’t caused by pests or diseases—they’re the result of a common condition called catfacing. And yes, you can do something about it.

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Fall Garden Checklist: What To Do Now for an Epic Spring

There’s no shortage of garden chores in fall, and sometimes I think there’s more work to do this time of year than there is in spring! But putting in the effort now (while the weather is still pleasant and mild) will reward you with a healthy and thriving garden in spring.

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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.

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10 Fast-Growing Vegetables to Plant in Late Summer

If you’ve ever wondered, “What can I plant right now this late in the season?” then this guide can help you choose reliable, unfussy, and easy-to-grow crops for the waning summer days. Every vegetable on this list can be harvested in 40 days or less, and some of them will even give you two or more harvests before the season’s over.

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How Much to Plant for a Year's Worth of Food

Do you struggle with knowing how much food to grow for your family? Figuring out how much to plant in a vegetable garden can be tricky, as you don’t want to end up short when you harvest, or waste space to food you’ll never eat. Here are five important things to consider before you start planting.