summer squash

The Best Plants for Straw Bale Gardening

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  
How to Slice and Zoodle Your Zucchinis

How to Slice and Zoodle Your Zucchinis

There's nothing quite as rewarding as harvesting fresh zucchinis from your own backyard, and there's rarely a shortage, as most gardeners know. There's even "National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your  
The Enthusiastic Gardener

The Enthusiastic Gardener

I grew up in southwest Ohio, the second of seven children. Our family’s vegetable garden covered over an acre. In early March my dad would purchase Kennebec seed potatoes.  
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