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 tarragon plant gives a sweet anise flavor the dried jar never matches, but the wrong variety for your climate fails fast. How to choose, grow, harvest it.
A thyme plant asks for almost nothing, but it dies fast in soggy soil. Here is how to grow, water, prune, harvest, and revive thyme so it stays leafy.
The sweet potato plant fails for the same few reasons. Learn to start slips, plant in warm soil, feed for big roots, harvest, and cure for storage.
A strawberry plant gives sweeter berries than any store if you nail the basics. Learn the three types, correct planting depth, watering, and runner control.
The sugar apple (sweetsop) is a knobby tropical fruit with sweet, custard-like pulp. Learn how to tell when it is ripe, eat it safely, and grow your own tree.
Sugar snap peas are the sweet, crunchy edible-pod peas you eat whole. Learn when to plant this cool-season crop, whether to trellis, and exactly when to pick.
Stone fruit ties peaches, plums, cherries, and apricots into one family with shared rules. Learn chill hours, open-center pruning, pollination, and care.
Star fruit, or carambola, is the star-shaped fruit you eat skin and all. Learn to pick sweet vs tart types, its key kidney safety warning, and how to grow it.
Your spinach plant keeps bolting before it fills out? Master the timing, spacing, watering, and harvest tricks that keep tender leaves coming.
Sorrel is the tangy, lemony perennial that greens up the garden early, yet its sour bite and oxalic acid leave many cooks unsure how to grow and use it well.
Snow peas are the flat, edible-pod peas you pick whole before the peas swell. Learn to plant this cool-season crop, trellis the vines, and time the harvest.
The serrano pepper runs two to five times hotter than a jalapeno, yet one compact plant is easy to grow and yields 50-plus pods from seed to harvest.