Edible Gardening

Sweet Peppers: Using Ripeness Cues to Time Your Harvest

Sweet Peppers: Using Ripeness Cues to Time Your...

Use color, firmness, size and weather to judge sweet pepper ripeness. Learn how to harvest green or colored fruit for the best flavor and steady production.

Sweet Peppers: Using Ripeness Cues to Time Your...

Use color, firmness, size and weather to judge sweet pepper ripeness. Learn how to harvest green or colored fruit for the best flavor and steady production.

Plan a Potato Patch in the Space You Already Have

Plan a Potato Patch in the Space You Already Have

Learn how to grow potatoes in the space you have—open beds, containers, or growing bags. Choose first earlies or maincrops and manage hilling and water for a home harvest.

Plan a Potato Patch in the Space You Already Have

Learn how to grow potatoes in the space you have—open beds, containers, or growing bags. Choose first earlies or maincrops and manage hilling and water for a home harvest.

Growing Gooseberries Indoors: Organizing Supplies for a Small-Space Crop

Growing Gooseberries Indoors: Organizing Suppli...

Learn the indoor conditions gooseberries need and how to store and retrieve the growing medium, feed, pruning tools and labels that keep a container plant productive.

Growing Gooseberries Indoors: Organizing Suppli...

Learn the indoor conditions gooseberries need and how to store and retrieve the growing medium, feed, pruning tools and labels that keep a container plant productive.

Scallions From Sowing to Cutting: Which Plant Part Does What

Scallions From Sowing to Cutting: Which Plant P...

How to prepare soil, sow, thin and cut scallions so the green blades, white base and roots each serve the right purpose. Covers blocks, spacing, watering and regrowth from trimmings.

Scallions From Sowing to Cutting: Which Plant P...

How to prepare soil, sow, thin and cut scallions so the green blades, white base and roots each serve the right purpose. Covers blocks, spacing, watering and regrowth from trimmings.

Why Your Apple Harvest Arrives All at Once, and How to Plan Around It

Why Your Apple Harvest Arrives All at Once, and...

Learn why apple harvests arrive in uneven bursts and how to plan a staggered household sequence using early, mid-season and late cultivars, correct pollination and storage-ready crates.

Why Your Apple Harvest Arrives All at Once, and...

Learn why apple harvests arrive in uneven bursts and how to plan a staggered household sequence using early, mid-season and late cultivars, correct pollination and storage-ready crates.

Hardening Off Melon Transplants: How Foliage Color Shows Whether the Move Is Working

Hardening Off Melon Transplants: How Foliage Co...

Learn how melon foliage color signals healthy hardening off, sunscald and cold shock, and use a staged outdoor schedule and supports to move transplants safely.

Hardening Off Melon Transplants: How Foliage Co...

Learn how melon foliage color signals healthy hardening off, sunscald and cold shock, and use a staged outdoor schedule and supports to move transplants safely.