Grow Your Own Salad Mix | Video

In issue #186 of Fine Gardening, assistant editor Carol Collins shows how to create your own custom salad mix. Growing greens isn't hard. Most varieties germinate easily, mature quickly, and don't take…

How to Make a Moisturizing Herbal Balm

After the long gardening season begins to come to a close, and the cool season begins to set in, many a gardener may look down to find that their hands…

More on Fermenting Chiles

My last post I showed you how to ferment chile peppers. This brief video shows a few more fermentation lids, how to tell when chiles are ready and how to…

Fermenting Chile Peppers

It is the chile harvest season and time to put up the bounty! fermenting hot peppers is a great alternative to pickling and canning--offering great flavor, more vitamins and minerals…

Easy, Organic Apples are in the Bag

Fresh apples in Autumn are a real treat, especially if they're organic! However, with so many pests and diseases that can negatively effect your apple trees, it can be hard…

How to Pick a Ripe Watermelon

How to Start a Vegetable Garden: Testing Your Soil

So you're wondering how to start a vegetable or kitchen garden? Not to worry. Our seven-video series How to Start a Vegetable Garden will help you get your first veggie…

How to Plant Blueberries

Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a video series from FineGardening.com and our sister site FineCooking.com. We'll be following a gardener (Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Sarah Breckenridge) as they plant, maintain, harvest,…

How to Thin Peaches

Editor Steve Aitken heads up to Bishop's Orchard in Guilford, Connecticut to learn how to thin peaches from orchard owner Jonathan Bishop. How to Thin Peaches Learn how to thin…

Compost with Bill Olkowski

A supplement to the 2013 edition of Common Sense Pest Control from Taunton Press.