Tag archives for warm season crops
How to Grow Corn in a Home Garden Without Wasting Space
Corn has big garden romance. Tall green stalks. Rustling leaves. Tassels catching the light. Ears forming under tight husks. The feeling that you have grown something ancient, generous, and deeply…
How to Grow Bush Beans for Easy Summer Harvests
Bush beans are one of the most practical crops a beginner gardener can grow. They do not need a trellis. They do not ask for months of indoor seed starting.…
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes for Slips, Vines, and Storage Roots
Sweet potatoes feel like one of those crops that should be harder than they are. The vines are dramatic, the harvest is hidden underground, and the curing step sounds a…
Indeterminate Tomatoes: What They Are and How to Grow Them
Tomato labels can be oddly intimidating. You go looking for a plant that will give you tomatoes, and suddenly you are asked to understand words like determinate, indeterminate, semi-determinate, heirloom,…
How to Grow Eggplants in a Home Garden
Eggplants look a little dramatic before they ever reach the kitchen. The leaves are broad. The flowers are pretty. The fruit can be glossy, purple, white, striped, round, long, tiny,…
Seed Starting for Food Garden Beginners
Starting seeds indoors can feel like a tiny act of optimism. There you are, in late winter or early spring, pressing dry little seeds into damp mix and trusting that…
How to Grow Hot Peppers in a Home Garden
Hot peppers are proof that a small harvest can change a whole meal. One pepper can brighten a pot of soup. A few can become salsa, hot sauce, chili oil,…