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

7 Best Tomatoes for Canning and Sauces

The trick to making the perfect sauce and canning tasty tomatoes is all in choosing the right variety. Gardening expert and pasta lover Melissa Strauss has some advice on choosing the best tomatoes for canning and sauce making.

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Edible

How to Grow Mushrooms at Home: A Beginner’s Guide

Do you think you need to be a scientist with a lab to grow mushrooms at home? Armed with a few tips, anyone can do it. In this guide, mushroom farmer Amy Horrigan walks you through all the essentials so that even a total beginner can grow awesome mushrooms!

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Vegetables

How to Grow Corn in Raised Beds: A Complete Guide

You don’t need a ton of space to grow corn. This classic summer crop is shallow-rooted and easy to cultivate. Garden expert and former organic farmer Logan Hailey explains how to grow corn in raised beds for delectable sweet cobs or rainbow-hued popcorn.

A close-up of strawberry plants on a farm, featuring vibrant green leaves and branches, shows a mix of ripe red strawberries ready for picking and smaller unripe green strawberries still growing.

Fruits

11 Strawberry-Growing Mistakes to Avoid This Year

If you crave sweet homegrown berries but your strawberry plants have underperformed in the past, a few tweaks to your growing methods could tremendously improve yields. Strawberry expert and former organic farmer Logan Hailey explains the most common strawberry-growing mistakes and how to avoid them this season.

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Fruits

7 Benefits of Removing Strawberry Runners

If you want to eat loads of berries this summer, you may need to do some pruning. Strawberry runners suck a lot of energy away from your plants, but former organic farmer Logan Hailey has expert info on why and how you can remove them for higher yields.