When it comes to watering your vegetable garden, you have a few different choices to make. You can create drip irrigation systems, place soaker hoses in your garden, and even  …

Whenever I get to write about composting, I get that feeling you have when you’ve discovered a great new TV show and want to share all about it with your  …

How's the back? Has it stopped aching yet? Charles Dudley Warner said: "What one needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge in it." He was right! Mine's  …

You might call me slow on the uptake, but it wasn't until I did some light reading here at foodgardening.com that I realized my new favorite kitchen gadget, an ice  …

I love growing my own food, but I'll be honest about the fact that there are things I don't look forward to each summer. For example, I've never been great  …

As a kid, I played this game with my friend where we’d blindfold each other and take random food or condiments from the fridge and get the other person to  …

If I had to choose the most mysterious flower in my herb garden, it would be lavender. How to dry it, use it, and cook with it are all questions  …

Because spinach is so easy to grow, I almost always end up with way more than I can eat, no matter how many recipes I have. What to do with  …

I admit that subtitle is a bit misleading. No matter how much of a hurry you might be in, the magic of nature takes time. So “hurry” is pretty relative  …

For years, my lovely wife Gail has been gently nudging me toward a deeper appreciation of cauliflower. We've explored many farmers markets together, each time finding new varieties and flavors,  …