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.
Rutabaga is a dense, sweet fall root that improves after frost. Learn how to grow rutabaga from seed, thin and water it, dodge brassica pests, and store it.
A rosemary plant is famously tough, yet most die within a year from overwatering. Get the soil, sun, and drainage right and it thrives for years indoors or out.
Romanesco is the lime-green fractal brassica that looks fussy but is not. Learn how to grow it for steady cool-season growth, and why heads bolt or rice.
A rhubarb plant rewards you with tart spring stalks for years, but only if you site it right and wait to harvest. Here is how to grow, feed, and divide it.
Rapini bolts fast in heat and turns bitter once it flowers, so timing is everything. Learn to grow, harvest at the right window, and cook broccoli rabe well.
Purslane looks like a weed, but this fleshy red-stemmed succulent is the richest plant source of omega-3. Learn to identify, forage safely, grow and cook it.
A pumpkin plant rewards a little planning, yet lush vines often set no fruit. Learn how to grow pumpkins from seed through pollination, problems, and harvest.
Purple potatoes carry blueberry-style anthocyanins, but color fades if boiled wrong. Get the best varieties, honest nutrition, cooking, and growing tips.
Poppy seeds grow best when you reverse the usual rules: sow on the surface, never transplant, and let the pods rattle dry before harvesting your own seed.
Plum tomatoes are meaty, low-moisture paste tomatoes bred for sauce and canning. Learn the best varieties, how to grow them, and how to beat blossom-end rot.
A pink pineapple is the bioengineered Del Monte Pinkglow. Learn why it is pink, how it tastes, where to buy one, its price, and if you can grow one.
Planting pumpkin seeds at the wrong time dooms your fall harvest. Learn to time sowing by frost dates, warm soil to 70F, and set the right depth and spacing.