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  • How-To

    How to Grow Microgreens

    If you would like to start growing your own fresh vegetables, why not start with microgreens? They are easy to grow, incredibly tasty, and highly nutritious. Microgreens are the edible…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Totally Free Online Vegetable Garden Planners

    As far as I can tell, we're all going to need a leg up. Here's where a cheat sheet comes in handy.

  • Article

    How to Deep-Plant Tomatoes

    There is definitely a right way and a wrong way to plant tomatoes. To ensure that your plants are as healthy as possible, and to get the biggest yield possible,…

  • Design

    Front-Yard Gardens Make a Strong First Impression

    Success lies in suiting the garden to your house style

  • How-To

    How to Harvest Garlic

    Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a video series from FineGardening.com. We’ll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening executive editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Sarah Breckenridge) as they plant, maintain, harvest, store, and prepare…

  • How-To

    How to Plant Garlic

    Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a video series from FineGardening.com. We’ll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening executive editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Sarah Breckenridge) as they plant, maintain, harvest, store, and prepare…

  • How-To

    How to Prune Nepeta

    Nepeta is one of our favorite perennials because it just blooms, and blooms, and blooms. But in order to get that bloom to extend through the entire season, you’re going…

  • How-To

    How to Harvest Soybeans (Edamame)

    Farmer Joe Smith from Niantic, Connecticut, discusses harvesting soybeans. I first started raising soybeans after I tried them at a Japanese restaurant. They’re also very nutritious and a big hit…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    All About Squash Blossoms

    Farmer Joe Smith from Niantic, Connecticut, explains the difference between a male and a female squash blossom. Squash has female and male blossoms both on one plant. A female blossom…

  • How-To

    When to Pick Peppers

    Farmer Joe Smith from Niantic, Connecticut, talks about how long it takes for peppers to go from green to red. Some people think that when they buy seeds for red…