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.
Winter melon is a warm-season cucurbit needing full sun, a long hot season, and room to roam, rewarding the wait with waxy gourds that store for months.
Grow feijoa, or pineapple guava, with this guide to hardiness zones, self-fertile cultivars and pollinators, planting, pruning, and harvesting ripe fruit.
Growing bilberry is harder than growing its blueberry cousin. Learn the cool climate, acidic moist soil, and shade this wild European berry needs to thrive.
A zucchini plant buries you in squash once you nail the timing. Learn when to plant, how to space, prune, hand pollinate, harvest, and fix the usual problems.
Yellow watermelon looks like the red kind but hides sweet, honey golden flesh. Learn why it is yellow, the best varieties, and how to grow it from seed.
Yuca, the starchy cassava root, grows easily from stem cuttings in warm climates. Learn to plant, harvest, and safely cook out its cyanide.
Winter melon is a giant waxy Asian gourd grown for soup, not a sweet fruit. Learn to grow it from seed, pollinate, sling heavy fruit, and store it for months.
A watermelon plant needs heat, full sun, and steady water, but bad pollination ruins most home crops. Learn to plant, feed, pollinate, and pick a ripe melon.
A walnut tree gives nuts, shade, and timber, but its juglone and size demand planning. Learn to choose English vs black walnut, pollinate, and harvest right.
Water chestnuts confuse growers – the edible Eleocharis dulcis corm is not the invasive water caltrop. Grow, harvest, cure and cook your own.
Confused by the types of lettuce? This guide compares all six groups by flavor, texture, heat tolerance, and days to maturity so you can choose what to grow.
Ugli fruit hides sweet, juicy citrus under a homely, scarred peel. Learn what this Jamaican tangelo tastes like, how to pick, peel, eat, and grow it.