KitchenGardener Magazine

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Tools for Working the Soil

    Forget the rototiller. An experienced gardener recommends five tried-and-true hand tools for preparing seedbeds and moving dirt around.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    A Mini-Farm in San Francisco

    Faced with unplanned retirement, a gardener transforms a weed-choked backyard into a micro market garden that grows greens by the fistful.

  • Garden Lifestyle

    So You Want to Sell Your Homegrown Produce?

    Have you ever fantasized about selling your veggies to a restaurant? This author has done that, and here he offers tips on how to proceed and make your dream a…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    The Sludge Report: Using Recycled Municipal Wastewater Solids as a Soil Amendment

    Should you put compost derived from wastewater solids on your kitchen garden? The answers are hard to come by, but the questions are worth asking.

  • How-To

    All About Pickling Cucumbers

    Compact varieties grow fast in almost any amount of space, in this article you'll learn how to select, plant, water, and use this versatile vegetable without pickling them. You'll also…

  • Garden Lifestyle

    Asian Vegetable Salads

    Asian salads are very different from their Western counterparts, says Ruth Lively. Vegetables are rarely totally raw and crisp.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Controlling Cucumber Beetles

    Adult cucumber beetles and their larval form, the corn rootworm, can wreak havoc with corn, squash, sweet potatoes, and the leaves of legumes. Fortunately for the gardener, there are several…

  • Garden Lifestyle

    Turkish Stuffed Peppers

    A robust Middle Eastern mixture of rice, dried apricots, currants, and nuts seasoned with aromatics is packed into a colorful assortment of peppers.

  • Garden Lifestyle

    Getting Kids to Eat Vegetables

    Forget the tricks and bribes. Ken Haedrich reveals the best ways to get your kids to eat their veggies.

  • Garden Lifestyle

    Keep a Garden Journal

    Recording your garden's rhythms and rhymes improves results and spurs creativity.