Vegetables
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DesignConnie’s New Garden
Today’s photos are from Connie Raines in Georgia. I am a hobby gardener and a professional interior designer. I learned about plants and flowers while tending my own small city…
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How-ToTomatoes for Mountain West Gardeners
Despite working predominantly in ornamental—especially naturalistic—horticulture, I hold an “interdisciplinary minor in organic agriculture” from Colorado State University. Early in my career I worked primarily in food crops, and before…
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DesignThe Best Edibles for 2024
No matter how large or small a garden is, there’s nothing like a few new plants to make the gardener’s heart sing. We’ve looked over the introductions for 2024 and…
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DesignPeonies vs. Tomatoes—Discuss | Letter from the Editor
Folks often say that tomatoes are the gateway plants to becoming a gardener. The idea is that people get truly hooked on this hobby of ours once they grow something…
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DesignDwarf Tomatoes Produce Abundant Fruit With a Small Plant
Imagine it—stocky, handsome tomato plants that need less-aggressive staking, rarely exceed 5 feet in height, and offer fruit choices in different sizes and colors. Want more? OK, they taste delicious.…
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Kitchen GardeningNew Veggie Varieties to Try This Year
For what seems like 8 million years, I have grown ‘Tomatoberry’. It’s a small cherry tomato variety that is not rare or superflashy, but it works well for me, so…
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How-ToReaders Tips: Repurposed Tools in the Garden Used to Great Effect
Winning Tip: From the kitchen to the garden Several times a year a visitor to our garden is shocked to find a rogue steak knife pierced downward in one of…
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DesignCool Trellising Ideas
A trellis is a utilitarian thing. Normally, vines scramble along the ground until they find something to climb on. We gardeners, always seeking to help a plant out, are smart…
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DesignKeith’s Vegetable Garden
We’re visiting with Keith Irvine today, who gardens in chilly Zone 3 in Oxdrift, Ontario. We visited Keith’s garden before (Keith's Zone 3 Garden). I would have to say that…
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How-ToTips to Keep a Vegetable Garden Healthy and Productive in the Midwest
My first memories of a vegetable garden are of large sunflowers (Helianthus annuus and cvs., annual) growing in our backyard when I was about five years old and my mom…
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