Growing your own peppers not only gives you the opportunity to have organic peppers, but it offers the opportunity to grow pepper varieties you will not find at the grocery and that you may not find in a farmers market. Some pepper varieties shine when eaten raw, others when fried or roasted. Grow your own…
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Growing Tomatoes: Planting Seeds, Seedlings, Staking, Harvesting Tomatoes
Nothing shouts summer like a vine-ripened tomato. Heaven may just be biting into a ripe tomato, still warm from the sun. Imagine a harvest basket loaded with tomatoes of all shapes, sizes, and colors — from your own garden. Tomato plants are rather easy to grow but there are a few things you should know…
Growing Potatoes: Why & How To Grow Your Own Potatoes
If there is any vegetable you can count on finding at the grocery, it is the humble potato. Have you ever heard of the potato season coming to an end like you do with garden tomatoes or corn? Potatoes are available year-round so why would you use precious garden space to grow potatoes? There are…
Growing Garlic: Selecting Varieties, Planting, Harvesting, & Storing Garlic
Have tasted homegrown garlic? Unless you have your own garden, you probably do not realize how exceptional it is. Besides quality, there is also flavor. Almost 600 varieties of garlic exist world-wide. Probably you have experienced 2 or 3. Each variety has its own bit of flavor uniqueness. Your best bet to experience any of…
Growing Onions: How To Grow Your Own Onions
Why would you bother growing onions at all? Onions are available year-round and their price is not exorbitant. There are a few excellent reasons to consider growing your very own onions. You can grow them organically, under the very best conditions, and be assured of high quality onions. Onions are a fine source of antioxidants….
Growing Kale In Your Garden
Find a list of super foods and you will see kale. If you want kale in your diet to be a super, super food, then grow your own. The kale you purchase in the grocery is loaded with nutrients, but it could be loaded with residues of undesirable substances as well. Grow your own kale…