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.
Ghost peppers (bhut jolokia) hit a million Scoville units and need a long, warm season most gardeners underestimate. Learn to grow and handle them safely.
The fuji apple is the sweetest, crispest, longest-keeping apple you can grow – if you give it the long season and pollination partner it needs. Here is how.
A fig tree is one of the easiest fruit trees to grow. Learn to plant, water, prune, overwinter, and harvest figs, plus why a tree will not fruit.
Fava beans are a cool-season legume that builds soil while it feeds you. Learn when to plant, the topping trick that beats black aphids, plus harvest tips.
Dill bolts to seed fast, leaving little to harvest. Learn when to sow, how to keep plants leafy longer, and how to use dill weed and seed in the kitchen.
A cherry tree rewards you with blossom and fruit, but only with the right variety, soil, and pollination. Learn how to plant, prune, and harvest cherries.
The chamomile plant looks fussy but thrives on neglect, and most growers overwater or overfeed it. Here is how to grow, harvest, and brew your own from seed.
Butter lettuce bolts and turns bitter the moment heat hits, but this cool-season butterhead is easy to grow from seed, harvest, and store.
Growing button mushrooms at home is easy if you nail the casing layer. Here is the full how-to from spawn to harvest, with safety and fixes.
A healthy brussel sprout plant rewards patience with sweet, frost-kissed buttons. Master timing, feeding, topping, and harvest for a stalk of tight sprouts.
Boysenberries are sweet-tart hybrid brambles too perishable to buy fresh, so grow your own. Learn planting, trellising, the floricane cycle, harvest and care.
A blueberry bush demands acidic soil, pH 4.5 to 5.5, before anything else. Test and amend with sulfur, match the type to your zone, and plant two varieties.