Vegetables - Page 4 of 6

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Why Lettuce Bolts

    When lettuce plants stop making leaves and start making flowers, they turn bitter

  • Design

    Does Pressure-Treated Wood Belong in Your Garden?

    Here’s the information to help you decide

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Grow Some Interesting Heirloom Onion Varieties

    Grocery stores do an injustice to onions by only introducing us to a few everyday varieties, when in truth (like all vegetables) there is so much more for our taste…

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    Kitchen Gardening

    Growing Cucumbers in Containers

    How well did three different kinds of cucumbers grow in one patio container? Here are the results of the great cucumber experiment of 2012.

  • How-To

    Help for Growing Cucumbers

    Cucumber seedlings are especially attractive to garden pests. Here’s how simple mini-greenhouses can outsmart hungry birds and squirrels.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Grow Heirloom Sweet and Hot Peppers in Your Vegetable Garden

    Just like all of the other vegetables out there, when you choose to grow heirloom sweet or bell peppers, a whole new world is opened up to you.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    I need your help with my seed choices!

    I thought my first year of gardening was hard. Now that I'm trying to decide on tomatoes for this year I'm completely overwhelmed, I need your help...

  • Article

    A First Year Gardener

    For a first time gardener surrounded by experts here at Fine Gardening magazine, I was a bit intimidated by all the information they knew and how much I didn’t. Luckily,…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Best Carrot Varieties to Grow From Seed

    Before you actually do it, growing carrots seems masochistic—especially if you’ve listened to the tales of fellow gardeners, citing drainage woes and deformed crops. But what’s a gardener to do…

  • Article

    A Passion for Cooking with Peppers

    Every kitchen garden needs several different kinds of peppers to use in summer-time recipes. Here are five varieties to add a little spice to your cooking life.