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Dealing With Hot Pepper Diseases

Dealing With Hot Pepper Diseases

Like all food crops, hot peppers are susceptible to various fungal diseases. Your greatest weapons against these are best planting practices, which help prevent disease in the first place. This  …
Types of Hot Peppers

Types of Hot Peppers

Hot peppers, or chile peppers, are part of the Capsicum genus. They’re part of the Solanaceae family, which includes tomatoes, eggplant, and potatoes. When you’re planning your garden, make sure  …
What to Do With Extra Garden Vegetables

What to Do With Extra Garden Vegetables

Some years, everything comes together. The temperature is just right, the humidity is perfect, your watering system is spot on, the pests leave your garden alone while the bees and  …
What to Do with Summer Squash

What to Do with Summer Squash

So you grew those little trumpets of green and yellow! Congrats! It took all summer, but you did it! Now, do you have any idea what to do with summer  …
Grilled Eggplant Marinade

Grilled Eggplant Marinade

What makes eggplant so magical is its ability to soak in the flavor of whatever you cook it with, and deliver an almost bread-like texture when done right. And by  …
Bounty

Bounty

A hot, wet Spring yielded small, intensely sweet strawberries. We ate gallons of them—in homemade ice cream or over fresh warm shortcake, sure, but mostly right out of the bowl,  …
How to Grow Eggplant in Containers

How to Grow Eggplant in Containers

Nightshades are such beautiful plants, and eggplant is no exception. Eggplant fruit range in average size from over a foot long, to just a few inches. The larger varietals are  …