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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Vegetables

How To Pinch Brussels Sprouts to Speed Up Your Harvest

Brussels sprouts, in their little nutrient-dense packages, are gifts from the cool-season garden. Sweetening in cold temperatures, harvesting them small and after frost (even in snow) brings peak flavor. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores how to promote plump buds more quickly with simple pinching.

Garlic planting timeline. Close-up of a large garden spade inserted into loose brown soil, surrounded by freshly planted garlic cloves arranged in neat rows.

Edible

Fall Garlic Planting Timeline by Region

Wondering when to plant garlic? Wonder no more. The optimal time to plant garlic depends on your local climate. Plant cloves this fall and winter for big, bulbous heads next summer. Join longtime garlic grower Jerad Bryant to discover your fall garlic planting timeline.

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Fruits

Fruit Tree Espaliers: 7 Tips for Fall Maintenance

Espalier fruit trees are a beautiful and unique way to grow fruits in small spaces. They do require quite a bit of maintenance, and that includes caring for them in the fall. Join Florida gardener Melissa Strauss for tips on caring for your espalier fruit trees in the fall.

Soil preparation for garlic. Garlic cloves lie on black, loose soil sprinkled with wood ash.

Edible

5 Soil Preparation Secrets for Bigger Garlic Bulbs

Growing garlic is a straightforward and rewarding project in the garden. This cool-weather crop is easy to grow and stores for a long time. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss has some tips to share for preparing your soil for growing garlic.

A gardener pulls a cream-colored parsnip, grown from seed, with a tapered root from loose black soil by its green top, while two freshly harvested parsnips lie nearby.

Vegetables

How To Grow Parsnips From Seed

Parsnips, the nutty and sweet carrot relatives, are worth the wait from seed. While long to mature, the easy-care crops offer hearty, nutritious stock in cool-season cuisine. Gardening expert Katharine Rowe outlines how to grow parsnips from seed to enjoy their long history in cultivation.

Bright pink, oval-shaped ripe dragon fruits with green-tipped scales hang from long, trailing cactus-like stems of the tree.

Fruits

How to Tell Your Dragon Fruit is Ripe and Ready to Pick

After a long year of encouraging flower buds and ripening fruit, the harvest time is approaching! It’s time to pick your dragon fruit. Harvest them too soon, and they’ll be bland and tasteless. Learn how to tell they’re ripe, sweet, and ready to pick alongside longtime gardener Jerad Bryant.

A large wicker basket is filled with freshly picked oblong bitter cucumbers with green, bumpy skin, resting among lush green garden foliage.

Vegetables

5 Causes of Bitter Cucumbers and How to Fix Them

Cucumbers are best fresh. The last thing you expect when you bite into them is intense bitterness. This condition stems from a variety of factors, and it’s common during the summer. First discover what’s happening, then find out how to fix it.

A gardener holds a bunch of freshly harvested daikon radishes with long white roots and green leafy tops, highlighting ideal root vegetables to plant in September.

Vegetables

9 Root Vegetables to Plant in September for Thanksgiving Dinner

For many growing areas, a September planting of quick-developing root vegetables means we can enjoy them on the plate come Thanksgiving. They add rich, savory flavor and a high nutritional profile to cool-season cuisine. The frost-tolerant, easy-to-grow crops move easily from the garden to the kitchen. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores top root vegetables to plant this month for a swift return on hearty yields.