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.
A beefsteak tomato gives huge, meaty slices, but its size demands strong support, sucker pruning, and steady water. Here are the best varieties and care.
Tired of stale jarred bay leaves? Grow your own bay laurel for endless fresh and dried leaves, with full care, container, overwintering, and harvesting tips.
Choosing tomato companion plants well means fewer pests and a heavier crop. Here are the best partners grouped by job, plus what to avoid.
A sapodilla rewards patience with brown-sugar-sweet fruit, but it is frost tender. Learn the zones, sun and drainage, cultivars, watering, and harvesting it needs.
A coconut tree needs the right climate and real patience. Get the USDA zones, dwarf and tall varieties, soil, watering, germination, and harvest timing.
The types of squash split into summer types picked young and tender and winter types cured for storage. Here is how to grow and use each.
Yellow fruits go far past the banana bowl. This roundup groups the best yellow-fruited trees, tropicals, berries, and veggies, with growing notes for each.
The cucamelon is a grape-sized fruit that looks like a tiny watermelon and tastes of cucumber and lime. Learn to grow, trellis, harvest, and overwinter it.
An almond tree gives you late-winter blossoms and homegrown nuts, but it is fussy about climate, pollination, and drainage. Here is how to grow and harvest one.
The moringa tree is a fast-growing, drought-tolerant tree grown for edible leaves and pods. Learn to plant it from seed, prune it low to harvest, and overwinter it cold.
Pepino melon is a frost-tender nightshade grown like a tomato for mild melon-cucumber fruit. Learn to grow, pollinate, harvest, and overwinter it at home.
Sugar beets are big white taproots you can grow at home for syrup, sugar, or livestock and wildlife forage. Learn soil, sowing, thinning, pests, and harvest.