Classic Meat Lasagna
Classic meat lasagna - it’s the dish that transforms Sunday afternoons into culinary celebrations and turns your kitchen into the heart of pure comfort. As someone who’s spent countless weekends …
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Speedy Salads: How to Grow Lettuce for a Quick Harvest
Nothing beats the satisfaction of harvesting your own crisp lettuce just weeks after planting. While tomatoes take months to ripen and peppers test your patience, lettuce is the sprinter of …
27 Vegetable Storage Secrets
When you’ve spent months nurturing your garden, the last thing you want is for your precious vegetables to wilt, rot, or otherwise go to waste. As a food gardening enthusiast, …
10 Vegetables that Require Little Sun to Flourish
When we bought our house, my favorite thing in the backyard was the hundred-year-old Ash tree smack dab in the center of the yard. She was statuesque, gorgeous, sturdy, and …
7 Shallow Root Vegetables That Grow Great in Containers and Tough Spots
Nice as it would be, we don’t all have big plots of land and healthy, rich soil to grow our gardens. Heck, some of us don’t have any land at …
Six-Square-Foot Salad Systems
You don’t need a huge yard to enjoy fresh greens daily. When you plan it right, just six square feet can be enough. This space is easy to care for …
How Does Lettuce Get E. coli and How to Prevent it in a Home Garden
I love lettuce. It's so easy to grow, it's ready to harvest pretty quickly, and the multitude of varieties have so many different qualities. Who can deny the appeal of …
10 High-Yield Crops for a Cost-Efficient Garden
I'm just going to lay it on the line here: gardening can be expensive. It doesn't need to be, and certainly, the return on investment is usually pretty high. That …
Combinations of Vegetables that Should Not be Planted Together
You read that right. Even though there are lots of vegetables and herbs that complement one another in the garden, there are some vegetables that should not be planted together. …
From Seeds to Savings
Gardening is something I always admired from a distance—largely because I had a knack for turning green things brown. Once, I even managed to kill a cactus. Despite my lack …
