Lettuce - Fine Gardening
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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…
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Article
Keegan’s Maryland Garden
Today we’re visiting with Keegan Clifford, who is a vegetable gardener extraordinaire, producing huge amounts of beautiful produce. Keegan lives in Middletown, Maryland (Zone 7), a small town with just…
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How-To
Growing Lettuce Through Spring, Summer, and Fall in the Midwest
While early spring is the perfect time to sow seeds of cool-season greens, particularly the wide array of tasty lettuce selections available, there are some methods you can use to…
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How-To
20 Great Edibles to Start From Seed
Vegetables (and some fruits) are some of the easiest plants to start from seed. And that's a good thing, since a lot of us want to grow veggies from seed…
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How-To
Grow Your Own Salad Mix
Growing salad greens is a satisfying short-term project that nearly any gardener can fit into their space and schedule. Most greens mature quickly and can be eaten at any stage,…
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Kitchen Gardening
Have You Heard of Mini Head Lettuces?
There’s a lot to love about mini head lettuces, which are tender young greens harvested when they are about 6 inches tall and wide. Gardeners and farmers appreciate that this…
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Kitchen Gardening
Miniature Fruits and Veggies That Tout Big Flavor
In the vegetable garden, “Good things come in small packages” is more than just a cliché. While a standard eggplant or a soccer-ball-size cabbage makes a meal for a family…
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Kitchen Gardening
Learn the Basics of Growing Basil
There’s a reason that even those who don’t have a vegetable garden still try to grow basil: because it’s delicious and almost as versatile in the landscape as it is…
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Article
Cole Play: Crops for Winter Gardening
Let me tell you, we are eating some greens here in Maryland. We've had an extremely mild winter here in the Mid-Atlantic East Coast, so the cole crops, brassicas are…
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Kitchen Gardening
Why Do Greens Bolt?
No matter what you do, when you grow lettuces and other greens in your garden, they will eventually start growing taller and blooming. Most people assume that it’s just high…