Grow food you can actually eat. Edible gardening guides for vegetables, fruit, and herbs from seed to harvest, with sowing dates, spacing, watering, and tips for a bigger, tastier crop in beds, rows, or containers.
Juneberry plants reward you with spring flowers, sweet summer fruit, and fall color. Learn how to plant, grow, prune, protect, and harvest serviceberry.
Growing a plum tree is easy once you match the type to your climate and pollination needs. A full guide to choosing, planting, pruning, thinning, and harvesting plums.
Gala apples are sweet, crisp, and among the easiest fruit trees to grow. Learn the cultivar’s traits and strains, plus how to pollinate, plant, and harvest.
Honeyberry is an ultra cold-hardy edible honeysuckle ripening blue berries before strawberries. Learn siting, two-cultivar pollination, care, and harvest.
The catnip plant is one of the easiest perennial herbs to grow. Learn to start it from seed, shield young plants from cats, and harvest and dry the leaves.
A pistachio tree needs hot dry summers, real winter chill, and both a male and female tree. Get the zones, soil, planting, pollination, and harvest timing.
Not sure how to dry herbs without losing their flavor? Learn when to harvest, the best method for every herb, and how to store dried herbs for a year.
A cinnamon tree is a frost-tender tropical you can still grow at home as a container plant. Learn Ceylon versus cassia, indoor care, overwintering, and harvesting bark into quills.
Root vegetables look easy until you pull a forked, stunted carrot. Learn what counts as a root vegetable and how to grow the major crops well.
The mustard plant is a fast cool-season green that bolts in heat. Learn to grow it for tender leaves, homegrown seed, and as a soil-cleaning cover crop.
The peanut plant flowers above ground but sets its pods underground. Learn to pick seed peanuts, plant, hill for the pegs, and cure a homegrown harvest.
A date palm needs hot, dry desert heat and patience to fruit. Learn the zones, seed vs offshoot, watering, pollination, and harvest secrets.