Just Veggies

New Book: Vibrant Harvest

“Vegetable gardens absolutely don’t have to be boring plots of green!” That joyful declaration sets the tone for Vibrant Harvest: Cultivating a Kaleidoscope of Colors in Your Vegetable Garden with Heirlooms, Modern Hybrids, and More, a new guide from gardener and educator Sandra Mao. The 2025 book invites home gardeners to rethink what a productive ...

Figs: The Latest Trendy Edible

The last I checked, figs are not vegetables. They are fruits, or more accurately, they are the common fig tree’s mature syconium, which contain numerous one-seeds fruits. Fruit or not, this edition of Just Veggies is expanding its scope to include this delectable edible. Why? Because like kale, figs are becoming the “it” ingredient in ...