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 McIntosh apple is the tart, aromatic fall classic that cooks down into the best applesauce around. Here is how to taste, use, store, and grow it.
A mango tree needs heat, full sun, and frost-free conditions, which leaves many gardeners unsure where to start. Here is how to plant, water, feed, prune, and finally coax one into fruiting.
Mangosteen is the queen of fruits with sweet-tart white flesh. Learn how to open and eat it, its nutrition, season, and how to grow the demanding tree.
Malanga is the shaggy tropical corm sold as yautia or cocoyam. Grow it from setts in warm soil or containers, cure and store it, then tell it from taro.
Macadamia nut trees reward patience but baffle many growers – here is how to plant, feed low-phosphorus, pollinate, harvest, and cure your own buttery nuts.
The lemongrass plant is a tender tropical grass prized for its bright citrus flavor, and it grows easily in full sun, rich soil, or a pot you bring indoors.
A kumquat tree gives you eat-whole golden citrus where oranges would freeze. Learn to pick a sweet or sour variety, plant, water, overwinter, and harvest.
Kabocha squash tastes flat if you harvest or store it wrong. Learn to grow this sweet Japanese pumpkin from seed, hand-pollinate it, and cure it right.
Hyssop is a drought-proof Mediterranean herb that loves sun and sharp drainage. Learn to grow, prune, harvest, and use it, and tell it from anise hyssop.
Iceberg lettuce is the hardest lettuce to grow at home: it needs a long cool season, wide spacing, and steady water to firm a tight, crisp head.
Italian parsley is easy to grow once you crack its two quirks – slow seeds and cut-and-come-again leaves. Learn to plant, harvest, and store it.
How to prune tomatoes the right way – which plants to prune, what suckers to remove, how to train stems, and when to top for an earlier harvest.