I think my favorite vegetable to grow is peas! They are also one of the easiest vegetables to grow and generally produce well from spring in...

The one good thing about the big shut down a few years back is that so many people are more interested in growing their own food! Since a la...

My garden started as mostly full sun, but because it's situated approximately 20' from the edge of the woods, it takes awhile for th...

I talk a lot about growing vegetables and herbs but did you know that I grow quite a bit of fruit too? One of my favorite things to grow eve...

I don't normally have a problem with squash bugs. I grow zucchini every single year and can't recall ever seeing more than a couple ...

One of the most annoying things to happen to a tomato grower is when it's so close to harvest and all of a sudden your tomatoes start to...

I have heard from a lot of new gardeners this year who are disappointed in the way things are going. Unfortunately gardening hasn't been...

I've known what hydroponics are for a long time but I only started experimenting with it a few years ago. It started with a gift. I was ...

Last year I did an experiment in container gardening. I had planted 4 varieties of tomato plants, 2 of each plant. One of each variety was p...

Many people plant flowers in their vegetable garden. There are lots of reasons to do this from companion planting, attracting pollinators to...

Every year I get asked "which vegetables will be ready for harvest earliest?" by new gardeners. I get it. Gardening is a waiting g...

I have been growing Amaranth for about 8 years now. I prefer Amaranthus caudatus  the Love Lies Bleeding variety for it's long ropes of ...

It's almost time to plant the garden! Can you tell I'm excited? I love this time of year when I'm deciding what to plant this ti...

My garden just didn't meet my expectations this year. I tried to get everything planted on time but life got in the way and I literally ...

In the summer I told you about the cucamelons I grow and how much I love them. This was was my second year growing them. Every year I choos...

Every year I try to grow something in my garden that we have never had before. It gives us a chance to try something new that we normally wo...

I grow potatoes every year and have honestly never started them this early before! However, I have a bag of potatoes that have sprouted so s...

This is a very exciting time of year for gardeners. The boredom of the winter garden is almost over, seed catalogs are out and everyone is ...

I really like odd varieties of plants. I don't know what it  is about the more uncommon plants that attract me, but I looked around at m...

Putting in tomato cages has to be one of the most frustrating things I do in the garden. I don't know what makes it worse....the flimsin...