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.
The anaheim pepper is the long, mild chile built for roasting and rellenos. Learn how to grow it from seed, harvest green or red, roast it, and dry the reds.
Anise (Pimpinella anisum), the true licorice herb, is easy to grow from seed. Learn to tell it from star anise and fennel, then harvest its leaves and seeds.
Amaranth is a triple-purpose plant – ancient grain, spinach-like greens, and bold ornamental plumes. Learn to grow, harvest, and thresh it from seed.
Acorn squash is the easiest winter squash to grow, and it skips curing. Sow it, fight squash bugs and vine borers, then read its orange ground spot to pick.
Learning how to grow tomatoes comes down to warmth, full sun, steady moisture, and support. Here is the whole arc, from starting seeds to picking ripe fruit.