Vegetable Garden - Fine Gardening

  • veggie garden tools
    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…

  • view of vegetables and fruit tree in front garden
    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…

  • raised garden beds with corn and other vegetables
    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…

  • stepping stone path leading to patio with container plantings all around
    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…

  • view of bee mural between conifers
    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…

  • snap peas
    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…

  • different pepper varieties
    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…

  • 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…

  • Swiss chard growing in a rocky vegetable garden
    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),…