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.
Jicama is a sweet, crisp tuber that needs a long, warm season to size up. Learn how to start it from seed, feed it for bigger roots, and harvest in fall.
Leek shanks turn out thin or gritty when crowded or hilled wrong. Learn to grow leeks from seed, blanch the right way, harvest, store, and cook them.
A mint plant gives you endless fragrant leaves but spreads fast and takes over beds. Learn to plant, water, harvest, and contain mint the easy way.
Growing jalapeno peppers is easy with the right warmth, water, and timing. Learn seed starting, heat and Scoville, ripening to red, problems, and harvesting.
Growing cucumbers is easy once you nail warm soil, steady water, and good pollination. Learn to plant, feed, harvest, and fix bitter or fruitless vines.
A fennel bulb only forms when the timing and watering are right, or the plant bolts into fronds with no harvest. Here is how to grow it sweet and plump.
Barley grows both a harvestable grain and a soil-building cover crop from one packet of seed. Learn how to plant, grow, harvest, thresh, and turn it under.
Basil is easy once you master timing and pruning. Start it from seed, pinch it bushy, beat downy mildew, harvest for big yields, and grow it indoors.
Green apples offer tart bite and firm flesh for baking. Compare the main varieties, best uses, the honest green-versus-red sugar answer, and how to grow them.
Gooseberries crop for 15 years yet are rarely sold in shops. Learn to plant, prune, beat sawfly and mildew, and pick tart cookers and sweet dessert berries.
Granny Smith apples are the tart, crisp green pie apple, but this cultivar needs a long warm season, a pollinizer, and disease care to crop well at home.
Grape leaves are a free, edible spring crop from any unsprayed vine. Learn which grapes taste best, how to pick tender ones, and how to preserve them.