Nurturing your Green Beans
Once your green beans are established, keep them watered consistently, especially when flowering as that keeps the flowers coming. Green beans need 1 to 2 inches of water per square …
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Growing Green Beans in Containers
Bush beans and pole beans both grow well in containers. Because beans are a warm weather plant, if your region has particularly cold springs where soil temperatures don’t warm up …
Oven-Roasted Potatoes and Onions with Rosemary
The great thing about growing New potatoes or "New Baby Potatoes" is that they're exactly as they sound, potatoes that are still young (about 10 weeks old), which means they …
Dealing with Lemon Diseases
Like all food crops, lemon trees are susceptible to various fungal diseases. Your best weapons against these are best planting practices, which help prevent disease in the first place. …
Winterizing your Lemon Trees
Lemon trees are the cold-hardiest of all the citrus. Even so, they’re not crazy about cold weather. Some varieties are cold-hardy down to 20 degrees F, but even trees planted …
Watering, Weeding, Pruning and Fertilizing your Lemon Trees
Once your lemon trees are settled in—whether it’s in a container, a raised bed, or open ground—consistency is key when it comes to watering. Lemon trees like a long drink …
Growing Lemon Trees in Containers
Lemon trees can flourish in containers. There are dwarf varieties that have been developed to make having an indoor tree more manageable. And with a little prudent pruning, you can …
Planting Lemon Trees in the Ground
Lemons need lots of sunshine in order to thrive. They also need well-drained soil with a pH of 5.5 to 6.5. Lemons are more cold-sensitive than other citrus trees, so …
Meyer Lemon Tree Care 101: Outdoors and In Containers
Delicious Meyer lemons come from a tree produced by crossing a true lemon with an orange or tangerine cultivar. If you've never tried one before, you'd be correct in assuming …
Nurturing your Okra Plants
While okra is a drought-tolerant plant, it still appreciates about an inch of water a week. If your garden doesn’t get that much with natural rainfall, you’ll want to supplement …
