16 things i know about growing tomatoes
FROM THE FIRST SEED SOWN to the last fruit stashed in the freezer, homegrown tomatoes are a labor of love. [read more…]
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growing potatoes organically: when and how to plant, hill and harvest
A FRIEND I BUY seed potatoes with and I were scratching our heads as we filled out the order form, [read more…]
how to grow kale, with sarah kleeger of adaptive seeds
‘ANYONE CAN GROW KALE,’ the seed farmers at Adaptive Seeds—who have collected kales from around the world and made them [read more…]
grow onions from seed, with seed breeder don tipping of siskiyou seeds
SICK OF SPENDING BIG on onion and leek transplants? Master growing those edible Allium from seed, and also learn a [read more…]
perennial edibles, landraces and other unusual seeds, with nate kleinman of experimental farm network
A LOT OF WHAT I LEARNED about gardening, I learned from seed catalogs, always gravitating to ones featuring the odder [read more…]
seed series: irresistibly tasty varieties to try, with lane selman of culinary breeding network
IT’S SEED-SHOPPING TIME, time to kick off my annual Seed Series on the show and website, and introduce you—and myself—to [read more…]
winter squash-coconut milk soup with garam masala
THE RABBITS got the beans that year. The cold weather all that same “summer” got some of the tomatoes. But [read more…]
david lebovitz’s french onion soup (from ‘my paris kitchen’)
SOME ONIONS WON’T LAST—you know, the ones whose tops didn’t brown down thoroughly before harvest, and may still look more [read more…]
how to store garden vegetables for winter
WE TALKED ABOUT storing tender ornamental plants recently, but what about garden vegetables, now that colder nights and days are [read more…]
dan koshansky’s refrigerator dill pickles
NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO ALMOST TO THE DAY, I ate pickles for breakfast with lovely Dan Koshansky, a retired railroad [read more…]
what to plant now for a fall vegetable garden
I’M WATERING THEN SHADING the garden beds where peas grew fat and sweet until early July, when their time was [read more…]
raised beds, grow bags and more, with epic gardening’s kevin espiritu
I BUILT MY OLD-STYLE wooden raised beds for vegetables about 30 years ago, and they’ve served me well. Lately on [read more…]
okra: beautiful, resilient, and surprising, with chris smith
IF YOU HAD TOLD ME I’d be reading an entire book about okra, and often laughing out loud delightedly in [read more…]
don’t stop now! succession sowing of vegetables herbs, flowers, with niki jabbour
WHEW! YOU FINALLY got everything into the ground, transplanting every little seedling and sowing every seed, and it’s time to [read more…]
why vegetable seedlings stretch and get spindly
MAYBE YOU’RE WONDERING this about now: Why do vegetable seedlings stretch and grow spindly sometimes, and how can you prevent [read more…]
