Edible

Learn all about edible gardening to improve your health, save on groceries, and reconnect with nature. Our detailed guides show you how to grow food!

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Fruits

Where to Plant Rhubarb: Soil and Light Requirements

Rhubarb is a longtime garden favorite for its lush, bright red, and tart stems. It’s perfect for cooking into pies, jams, and preserves. Because it’s a long-lived perennial, choosing a proper planting site is essential for a productive crop. Learn what this veggie needs to thrive with this easy-to-follow guide.

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Vegetables

9 Ways to Grow Tomatoes Vertically: DIY Solutions

To get the maximum yield and promote overall health, growing tomatoes vertically has advantages. The space-saving measure supports vines as they develop all those tender fruits. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the primary ways to grow tomatoes vertically and creative DIY solutions for inspiration.

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Fruits

When and How to Fertilize Berries in Pots and Containers

Berries are some of the best fruiting crops to grow in containers! Whether you like juicy, sweet strawberries or tart blackberries, you’ll want to fertilize them properly for optimal harvests. Learn how and when to feed your berries alongside backyard gardener Jerad Bryant.

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Vegetables

5 Reasons Your Onions Are Bolting and What to Do About It

Watching your carefully tended onion crop suddenly send up flower stalks can be frustrating for any gardener. But understanding why onions bolt and how to prevent it can save your harvest. Garden expert Madison Moulton explains the 5 main causes of onion bolting and what you can do to stop it.

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Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Cassava

Cassava, or yuca, is a delicious root vegetable from tropical regions of the world. It grows well in warm gardens with long, hot summers. Though it requires some care to grow properly, homegrown yuca is well worth the effort! Learn how to plant, grow, and care for this giant perennial vegetable.

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Vegetables

5 Reasons You Should Stake Your Eggplants and How to Do It

Eggplants are prolific producers, and supporting their vigorous stems brings advantages for healthy growth and fruiting. To protect the yield and boost quality fruits, garden expert Katheirne Rowe outlines reasons to stake eggplants, which ones benefit, and simple installations to do the job.

Growing eggplants in pots and containers. A sturdy plant with thick, slightly fuzzy stems, broad green leaves with wavy edges, and glossy purple fruits hanging below in a large terracotta pot in the garden.

Vegetables

How to Grow Eggplants in Pots and Containers

Container-grown eggplants yield diverse fruits for easy enjoyment from the pot to the plate. The pretty fruits on manageable forms suit container culture. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow the nightshades across garden spaces in the ease of a pot.

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Vegetables

How to Hand-Pollinate Cucumbers in 5 Easy Steps

Cucumbers, with their bright, tubular blooms, rely on bees and other insects for pollination. Without a strong show of visits, fruiting lessens in number and quality. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores when and how to hand-pollinate cucumbers for the greatest number of crisp, cool rewards this summer.

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Herbs

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Growing Herbs Organically

Herbs are perfect for beginner gardeners! They’re low-maintenance, easy-growing, and incredibly aromatic. Whether you’re starting an herb garden or planting herbs around your other plants, this guide provides everything you need to know about growing them organically.

In the garden bed, the best types of lettuces grow in rows, forming rosettes of oval oblong green leaves with red markings, curly green leaves with red-purple edges, and ruffled soft green leaves.

Vegetables

Is There a Perfect Lettuce? We Find Out

Lettuce grows quickly from seed in versatile spaces, from raised beds to pots and in the ground. Cool, mild conditions and successional rounds generate a continual harvest of leafy greens. In a quest to find the best selections for the salad bowl, Epic Gardening’s leaders, Kevin and Jacques, trial the best lettuces to grow this spring.