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!

Three types of radish, basil, and kohlrabi microgreens with vibrant leaves and delicate stems growing densely from seeds in black trays in November.

Microgreens

11 Microgreens Seeds You Can Start in November

Grow an indoor garden with microgreens! These miniature seedlings are easy to cultivate and delicious to enjoy. Set a pot on a windowsill, or prepare a large grow-site with plant lights. No matter what you do, these 11 microgreens are perfect to start in November.

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Fruits

How to Grow Dragon Fruit in Pots and Containers

Dragonfruit, a tropical, berry-bearing cactus, is a spectacle in form with vining stems, nighttime flowers, and wildly colorful fruits. Growing the long-lived specimens in pots lets us maximize their best growing conditions. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow dragonfruit in containers for hearty returns of the exotic fruits.

Ice cubes with frozen basil leaves glisten on a wooden table beside fresh sprigs, showing an easy way to freeze garden herbs for later use.

Herbs

How to Freeze Your Garden Herbs for Holiday Cooking

Are you worried that those wonderful fresh garden herbs you've spent all summer growing won't make it to the holidays? No need for concern, frozen herbs are just as tasty! Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss for tips on freezing them for your holiday cooking.

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Herbs

How to Grow an Indoor Herb Bar Under Lights

Don’t let small spaces or cold temperatures limit your gardening habits; grow an indoor herb bar instead! With grow lights, you can cultivate your favorite herbs in any room of your home. Learn how to cultivate tasty herbs indoors alongside seasoned grower Jerad Bryant.

A big red flower appearing damp ad ready to harvest shampoo ginger, surrounded by various greens, including bright stems and leaves

Edible

How to Harvest Shampoo Ginger for Home Use

Ornamental in the landscape or houseplant jungle, tropical shampoo ginger brings edible qualities and a frothy lather that makes a sweet-smelling, refreshing shampoo. Growing your own yields the pure cleanser when plants produce their captivating pinecone blooms. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores how to harness the benefits of shampoo ginger for extended use at home.

Beginner gardeners’ rosemary growing setup with small rosemary seedlings in pots on a wooden table, their delicate green leaves reaching upward under soft light.

Herbs

7 Easy Rosemary Growing Tricks for Beginners

If you’re a beginner starting with rosemary growing, knowing a few tricks will help you grow fragrant branches. Farmer Briana Yablonski shares a few key tips for creating the proper environment and providing proper care.

Sprouted garlic cloves grow indoors in a container filled with dark soil, showing green shoots emerging from each clove.

Edible

How to Grow Garlic Indoors in 5 Easy Steps

Can you grow garlic indoors? The answer is yes! You may cultivate tender garlic foliage in apartment gardens and indoor rooms. All you need is some garlic, supplies, and a well-lit room. Join garlic grower Jerad Bryant to learn how to cultivate this root crop indoors with five easy steps.

Dragon fruit raised beds having round berries with green spikes, attached to vivid green stems with spiny edges

Fruits

How to Grow Dragon Fruit in Raised Beds

Dragonfruit, or pitahaya, is a subtropical cactus that yields juicy, colorful fruits and nighttime flowers. Exotic on grocery store shelves, they’re more captivating in the garden. Growing fruits in raised beds brings an eye-catching, rewarding tropical flair.

Potatoes with rough, earthy skins and varied shapes are spread in a single layer on a cloth, left to cure and dry for long-term storage.

Edible

How to Cure Potatoes for Long-Term Storage

After unearthing a hearty potato crop in late summer and fall, prepping them for storage brings lasting yields. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe outlines how to cure potatoes for successful storing to enjoy them into winter and spring.

A woman cares for a young indoor food forest with diverse potted plants on a bright windowsill filled with natural light.

Edible

How to Grow an Indoor Food Forest

Don’t let bad weather stop you from growing food crops. If it’s too cold, too hot, or too wet, you can grow food indoors in pots, trays, and planters. From leafy greens to root crops, and perennials to fruiting shrubs, the possibilities are endless. Indoor gardener Jerad Bryant shares how to grow a food forest inside your home.

Three smooth white roots with green tops are growing in dark soil, showing one of the common winter radish varieties.

Vegetables

7 Winter Radish Varieties We’re Planting Now

Winter radishes take longer to develop than smaller salad types, but their larger roots hold their crispness and store longer over the cool season. With a crisp texture in distinct colors, shapes, and sizes, winter radishes brighten seasonal cuisine, fresh and cooked. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores favorite winter radishes that relish cool weather for a long harvest season.