Sweet potatoes are an easy and satisfying crop to grow, requiring warm soil temperatures, moisture and space to grow. I enjoy sweet potatoes immensely. I didn’t eat them often growing up because I lived on a farm that grew the other kind of potato, the generic white-fleshed, brown-skinned version. Truth be told, I prefer the ...
ListenTake into consideration characteristics such as height and fruit size when choosing a variety for your container tomatoes. Thanks to a resident groundhog and a rabbit family, container tomatoes have been lining my deck for several summers. It’s the best way to keep my tomatoes under my watchful eye and away from nibbling creatures. Not ...
Listen | Edible GardeningEllen Wells shares what crops to grow after a spring harvest. When your spring crops like lettuce, herbs, radishes and garlic have finished producing, you’re left with valuable garden space that is primed for a quick-growing crops for the summer. Sure, some of your other crops could crawl their way over and occupy that space. ...
Listen | Edible GardeningSeedlings will let you know what’s bothering them. Check out the possible reasons that they don’t look happy. My poor seedlings need sunlight! Last week, we enjoyed temperatures in the 70s and plenty of sunshine. Today, it is snowing. The flats of seedlings have been on the kitchen table for four days and they’re showing ...
Listen | Gardening BasicsThe basics of growing sugar cane for home gardeners—use for harvesting sugar cane juice and also as a wind break or privacy screen. Sugar cane—is it a vegetable? Or since it’s sweet, maybe it’s a fruit? It’s neither—it’s simply a grass. But it’s edible, so that gives me permission to devote one edition of Just ...
Listen | Edible GardeningGround cherries or husk cherries are bushy and spreading plants producing fruits that taste like a combination of a tomato and a strawberry! Ground cherries will be the “new to me” crop in this year’s garden. I like to plant one item I’ve never grown before, and especially one that I haven’t had much experience ...
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