edible garden - Fine Gardening

  • wasp on purple flowers
    Design

    Mark’s Ornamental Vegetable Garden in Vermont

    Hi GPODers! Gardeners tend their landscapes for a wide variety of reasons, but one reason is the most prolific and historic: To produce food. While this might conjure images of…

  • cluster of pawpaw fruit
    Design

    Growing Pawpaws at Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Garden

    Happy Monday GPODers! We've got a very educational submission today, courtesy of a very intrepid couple who have taken an appreciation for plants and transformed it into a lifestyle that…

  • dwarf tomatoes
    Design

    Dwarf 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.…

  • urban garden with reconfiguration of beds
    Design

    Kathy’s Urban Garden

    Today we’re featuring an urban garden in New York City. My husband, Ian, and I (Kathy) live in a small house on a 100-foot by 25-foot lot in Queens, New…

  • growing fruit trees on the coast
    How-To

    Growing Fruit Trees Successfully on the Pacific Northwest Coast

    No matter where in the world you garden, harvesting healthy, home-grown, deliciously ripe fruit from your own backyard orchard is immensely satisfying. Every region has its own advantages and challenges…

  • victory garden
    How-To

    How to Plant a Southern California Victory Garden

    With so many radical changes happening daily, we are all impacted right down to our homes, our gardens, and our everyday lives. So as we move into 2023, it’s a…

  • a large white flower growing in the middle of smaller pink flowers
    Design

    The Harvey Garden in Texas

    My name is Ryan Harvey, and I have been gardening with my wife, Kristin, and our Yorkie, Emmitt, for eight years in Austin, Texas, Zone 8b. We focus mainly on…

  • currants
    How-To

    A Pro’s Tips for Growing Currants

    March is a busy time at our hillside nursery in Vermont, where we grow all kinds of cold-hardy fruits, nuts, and berries. We grow about a dozen types of cur­rants.…

  • celtuce
    Article

    How to Grow Celtuce

    While celtuce, or stem lettuce, may sound like just another novelty vegetable, it's far from that. If you are not familiar with celtuce, just think of it as overgrown romaine…

  • edible garden design
    Design

    Attractive Ways to Grow Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs in Your Garden Design

    As life comes back into the garden in spring, there’s no time like the present to focus on creating an outdoor world you can enjoy for the coming year. Spring…