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The Best Summer Vegetables to Grow for Low-Carb Diets
It's no secret that fresh vegetables are good for you. It's also no secret that many of us don't have enough fresh veggies in our diets. I could leave it …
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Your Complete Guide to Breeding and Cultivating Heirloom Lettuce Varieties
Heirloom lettuce plants produce seeds that you can cultivate and breed. Learn more below so you can grow new heirloom lettuce varieties each year.
Heirloom Lettuce Seeds and Why You Want …
Sunflower Companion Plants for a Vegetable Garden
Is there any flower more lovely than the sunflower? Famous post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh painted a series of sunflower canvases. It appears on the state flag of Kansas. There’s …
Easy Ways to Start Growing Vegetables from Scraps
I admit it, I’m a scrapper. I love growing vegetables from scraps. It doesn’t always work, but when it does you get to give yourself a little pat on the …
Regrowing Green Onions, Carrot Greens and Celery in Water
It seems like a myth that you can just chop the head or behind of a vegetable and it'll just start producing, but it's actually true. And depending on how …
The Best Plants for Straw Bale Gardening
To talk about the best plants for straw bale gardening, it's probably important to clarify what straw bale gardening is exactly. The short version is that you can grow vegetables …
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 …
The Garden Wakes Up in April
April in New England is a season of optimism. Not warm optimism, mind you. More like bundled-in-a-sweater, watching-the-weather-app, cautiously hopeful optimism. By the time April arrives, most gardeners around here …
5 Vegetables You Can Grow in Hanging Baskets on a Porch
Is there anything better than sitting on a porch, drinking a glass of fresh-squeezed lemonade, and reading a good book? I love a good porch sit but what I love …
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 …
