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Top 10 Fruit Snacks You Can’t Grow in Your Backyard
Let’s be honest—while your backyard garden might be bursting with tomatoes and kale, it’s not exactly a tropical paradise. But fear not! We’ve rounded up our favorite exotic and gourmet …
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Homegrown Sources of Vitamin C
Imagine the joy of stepping into your garden, basket in hand, and harvesting plump, sun-ripened tomatoes and crisp bell peppers. Each bite of your homegrown crop bursts with flavor, nourishing …
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 …
The Great San Marzano Experiment
There are many ways a professional chef parents a child. Some teach knife skills. Some teach patience. Mine taught me that if a tomato didn’t taste right, the soil was …
Some Composting Mistakes Are Tastier Than Others
Composting mistakes happen. Some of those mistakes are pretty minor, like when you spill your cup of freshly squeezed rosemary lemonade into the compost pile on a hot summer day. …
Cherokee Purple Tomatoes: A Gardener’s Delight with a Hint of Mystery
Ah, the Cherokee Purple tomato—part heirloom, part legend, and wholly delicious. This distinctive tomato is said to trace its roots back to the Cherokee Nation, passed down through generations before …
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 …
The Easiest Vegetables to Grow in New England
I live in New England, and I love having four distinct seasons, even if winter is a bit longer than I’d like. If you’re reading this based on the title, …
The Gift of Family and Garden
I'm fortunate to have a wonderful family and garden that I love. I especially appreciate how much my daughter loves spending time in the garden. She's (almost) always willing to …
San Marzano: The Tomato That Stole My Heart
As an avid tomato gardener, let me tell you: San Marzano tomatoes are nothing short of magical. These oblong, bright-red beauties are the secret ingredient behind the best pasta sauce …
