About Don Nicholas

Don Nicholas

Don Nicholas serves as Executive Publisher for Food Gardening Network and GreenPrints. He is an active gardener whose favorite crops include tomatoes, basil, blueberries, and corn. Don and his wife Gail live and work in southern Massachusetts surrounded by forests, family farms, cranberry bogs, and nearby beaches.

Articles by Don Nicholas

Mr. Kelly’s Tomato Patch

Mr. Kelly’s Tomato Patch

I grew up on the North side of Sacramento, which, to the best of my knowledge, was then, and still is the tomato capital of the United States. Back then,  
Our Pickle Barrel Strawberry Patch

Our Pickle Barrel Strawberry Patch

When I was ten years old, my father came up with a brilliant idea that would forever change our backyard and our taste buds: we were going to convert an