Close up of a green cucumber seedling in a greenhouse
It’s a beautiful, chilly March day, and I’m dreaming about planting my garden this spring. While it’s definitely still too cold to plant my garden, with a little planning and preparation, I can start my vegetable garden indoors to be ready to plant outdoors as soon as the last frost passes. When to Start…
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Easy tips for growing artichokes. Artichoke planting and care.
Growing artichokes is easy. There are two types of artichokes: Globe and Jerusalem. The globe is a perennial with a thistle-like head complete with scales surrounding a fleshy frond or heart, which is the part with the most flavour. The Jerusalem artichoke is grown for its tubers, which are produced in the soil like potatoes.…
Read More How to Grow Artichokes (Artichoke Planting and Care)Potatoes are one of the most versatile vegetables around–as well as one of my most favorite! When stored properly, your potato crop will last throughout most of the winter. Potato Facts There are more than 80 varieties of potatoes. The most common variety is the brown Russet potato, which is long and cylindrical in shape.…
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How to grow cucumbers in your garden.
The versatile cucumber (cucumis sativus) is tasty pickled, in a salad, as a salad, in a sandwich, or just eaten raw. How to grow cucumbers depends largely in part on how you plan to eat them. Cucumbers come in over 120 varieties that range from small picklers to large slicers and from dark green to…
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Asparagus is a perennial plant with erect, edible stems and tiny branches that bear even tinier flowers that become red berries that contain the black Asparagus seed. Formerly in the Liliaceae family, botanists have realized that Asparagus is in a class by itself and have repositioned its 120 species in the Asparagaceae genus. Asparagus is…
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