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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Edible

How to Tell Your Garlic is Ready to Harvest

Garlic is unlike any other crop! You plant it in the fall to harvest in summer. Though it takes a long time to mature, it’s easy to harvest and store. Longtime garlic grower Jerad Bryant shares how to tell your garlic is ready with these seven easy steps.

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Vegetables

Should You Defoliate Your Tomato Plants?

Defoliation is a leaf-removal technique with upsides and downsides, but is it necessary? The process may cause more harm than good. Join longtime tomato grower Jerad Bryant to explore the benefits and drawbacks of defoliating tomato plants.

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Edible

When and How to Harvest Quinoa

Quinoa is a pseudograin! It’s delicious, nutritious, and easy to grow. Get the most from your crop by harvesting the seed pods at the right time and in the right way. Join backyard gardener Jerad Bryant to discover when and how to harvest quinoa.

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Edible

Don’t Pick Corn Too Early: 5 Harvesting Tips

Corn grows quickly in summer! You’ll see tender shoots turn into giant stalks seemingly overnight. Ears will swell on the stalks—snip them off to enjoy the juicy kernels inside. Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares five harvesting tips to help you pick corn on time.

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Vegetables

How to Know if Your Carrots Are Ready to Harvest

As carrots develop underground, each one uncovers a unique treasure at pulling. Knowing what to look for and when to harvest the root vegetables brings the crispiest, sweetest crunch. Garden expert Katherine Rowe outlines how to know when carrots are ready to capture them at peak harvest.

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Vegetables

When and How to Harvest Garden Beans

Garden beans are fresh, delicious, and nutritious! They’re one of the best vegetables for your health. Eat them in their pods as green beans or let them mature for dry beans. Learn how and when to harvest your beans, and you’ll prevent any from going to waste.

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Vegetables

August Tomato Care: What to Do Now

Tomatoes are ripening and flourishing, and August is the month to harvest them! Aside from harvesting, some other tasks will help your crop ripen before the end of the growing season. Join seasoned grower Jerad Bryant to learn what to do with your tomatoes now.

A freshly picked bunch of garlic with rounded white heads streaked with purple and upright dry stems lies in a sunny August garden.

Edible

13 Garlic Varieties We’re Ordering in August

The time to order garlic is steadily approaching! Unlike most crops, you plant garlic in the fall for a midsummer harvest. Cultivating it requires some planning. Get ahead of the curve and order one of these 13 favorite garlic varieties of the Epic Gardening team.

Clusters of ripe Champagne grapes, small and deep purple, hang in tight bunches among lush green leaves on the Pinot Noir vine.

Fruits

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Champagne Grapes

Champagne grapes have intensely sweet berries perfect for fresh eating and cooking. These miniature grapes pack more flavor than their size suggests. Gardening expert Madison Moulton explains how to grow these delightful table grapes successfully.