Vegetable Garden - Fine Gardening
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How-To
Time-Saving Veggie Garden Tools
Seeds have sprouted, clean up has commenced, and the countdown to the last frost date has begun. But as you plan and prepare for the gardening season, consider the ways…
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Design
Lizzi’s Front Yard Veggie Garden in Washington
Hi GPODers! We're getting an update from a beautiful garden in Walla Walla, Washington that we've seen a couple of times before. Lizzi Gualtieri has shared several photos of her…
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Design
Dawn’s Backyard Garden in Arizona
Hi GPODers! A couple of weeks ago we got to see how Mark Montgelas grows a wonderful assortment of food and flowers in the northeast (Mark’s Ornamental Vegetable Garden in…
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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…
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Design
Karen’s Garden Goes From Blank Slate to Bounty
Hi GPODers and Happy Monday! We're starting the week off in Oregon, in the garden of Karen and Randy Hopson. Divided into different sections, but all flowing together harmoniously with…
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Design
A Bee-utiful Backdrop for a Productive Garden in Denver
Happy Monday GPODers! We're getting real artsy today with a submission from Tracy Lewis in Denver, Colorado. Tracy has been growing vegetables in her garden for several years now, producing…
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How-To
How to Grow Supersweet Snap Peas
It’s always a great day when I pick the first snap peas. A lot of the harvest never makes it to the kitchen. Snap peas—which snap like green beans and…
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How-To
How to Grow Peppers That Won’t Let You Down
Peter Piper may have picked a peck of “perfect” peppers, but for the rest of us, a good harvest of this popular veggie can be more elusive. Peppers, like their…
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How-To
Tomatoes 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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How-To
Which Vegetables to Grow in Rocky Soil and Which to Avoid
Here in the Northeast, rocks are just a part of gardening life, and even if you are raising vegetables in an old garden (one that's been well tended for decades),…