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!

Glossy, deep red delicious cherry variety hang in a tight cluster from a slender stem, nestled among vibrant green, serrated leaves with a slightly waxy texture.

Fruits

9 Most Delicious Cherry Varieties to Grow for Fresh Eating

It’s cherry blossom season across the globe, and at home, we can enjoy the delicate blooms, ornamental bark, and shining fruits of bearing trees. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe highlights the tastiest cherry varieties to plant this season for years of sweet rewards.

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Herbs

Is My Lavender Dead or Dormant?: How to Tell

Lavenders adorn herb gardens with brilliant violet flowers and sweet aromas. In winter, the shrubs may look tired, gray, and dead! They dislike cold, wet, and cloudy conditions. Learn to tell if they’re dead or dormant alongside backyard gardener Jerad Bryant.

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Vegetables

9 Spinach Alternatives That Won’t Bolt in the Heat

Spinach is a supreme leafy green; its leaves are tender, nutritious, and slightly crunchy. Though they’re excellent to eat, they’re challenging to grow under the summer heat. Consider cultivating one of these nine heat-tolerant alternatives from seasoned grower Jerad Bryant.

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Edible

8 Potato-Growing Hacks for the Best Harvest

These hacks help you harvest the most potatoes possible! They’ll guide you to your biggest yields whether you garden in raised beds, containers, or on acres of farmland. Discover these nine potato-growing tips from Epic Gardening founder Kevin Espiritu and potato farmer Tyler Heppell.

Dark green Cucumis sativus fruits hanging from climbing vines with broad, textured leaves and curling tendrils.

Vegetables

9 Cucumber Growing Tips to Try This Season

Cucumbers, sliced or pickled, are favorites fresh from the summer garden and the easygoing vines and prolific producers. A few benchmarks of cucumber care promote the best yields and overall vigor. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe highlights top tips for enjoying outstanding cucumbers right off the stem.

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Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Romanesco Broccoli

Have you seen a vegetable that demonstrates fractal geometry at its finest? Romanesco broccoli is not only cool to look at, it’s easy to grow and delicious. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you how to plant, grow, and care for this unique Brassica.

Vegetable rabbits won't eat. A close-up of a wild rabbit with fluffy, tan-grey fur, large black eyes and long ears hides among young vegetable crops in a garden bed.

Vegetables

13 Vegetable Garden Plants Rabbits Won’t Eat

With spring’s sweetness comes fresh, tender, new growth and the bunnies that make quick work of it. If you have rabbits in your vegetable garden, we’ve got ideas for plants they won’t devour (at least, that they don’t prefer). With a palette as expansive as ours, honing in on their least favorites means more for us. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores vegetable garden plants that rabbits avoid and how to use them as deterrents.

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Edible

7 Crops You Can Plant From Seed in April

When spring finally spoils us with sunshine and warmth, it’s a pleasure to get in the garden and sow some seeds. Join former organic farmer Logan Hailey for some delicious additions to plant from seed in your April garden.

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Edible

When and How to Grow Sweet Corn in the Home Garden

Sweet corn is a signature of summer as much as a juicy watermelon or vine-ripened tomato. The flavor is so much sweeter and fresher closer to picking, making it superior right from our own garden. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow sweet corn at home for the best flavor and nutrition.

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Edible

13 Crops You Should Only Direct Sow

There are two options for starting seeds: sowing them indoors or outdoors. Direct sowing involves planting crops outdoors, and it’s best for plants with sensitive roots. Learn from Epic Gardening founder Kevin Espiritu and the Garden Hermit Jacques Lyakov which crops you should only direct sow.