Kitchen Garden - Page 2 of 7 - Fine Gardening
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How-To
Tips and Tricks for Growing Garlic
If you’ve been to a farmer’s market this July and August, no doubt you have feasted your eyes on gorgeous bulbs of garlic, freshly pulled from the earth just weeks…
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How-To
A Pro’s Tips for Growing Currants
March is a busy time at our hillside nursery in Vermont, where we grow all kinds of cold-hardy fruits, nuts, and berries. We grow about a dozen types of currants.…
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Design
Vertical Gardening in Southern California
Vertical gardening continues to grow in popularity. Although the concept is not new, it is becoming more relevant than ever for Southern California landscapes. With increasingly hot, dry, and windy…
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Design
Gardening for the Hungry
Today Sallie Boge is sharing a unique garden space: The St. Mary Church Garden Ministry in Riverside, Illinois, grows a vegetable/herb/fruit garden for charity food pantries. Our garden is consistently…
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Article
Dana and Sarah’s Garden of Eden
Our 2,400-square-foot backyard vegetable garden is located in Los Angeles (Zone 10B). It is an edible garden of Eden that features over 100 heirloom varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs.…
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Article
How to Grow Celtuce
While celtuce, or stem lettuce, may sound like just another novelty vegetable, it's far from that. If you are not familiar with celtuce, just think of it as overgrown romaine…
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Kitchen Gardening
Essentials Tools for Your Veggie Garden
Gardening season is here! Now is the time to get out your garden gloves and tackle your veggie garden needs. Planting, mulching, and general tending are on the calendar, and…
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Kitchen Gardening
Tips to Grow Better Cherry Tomatoes in Northern California
Though technically a fruit, the tomato is the most popular homegrown vegetable, with thousands of tasty varieties available for the kitchen gardener to choose from. Tomatoes can range from big…
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How-To
Why to Use Raised Garden Beds, Especially in Extreme Climates
My first foray into gardening was many years ago when my husband and I joined another couple in renting a community garden plot in Arlington, Virginia. We inherited the worst…
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Design
Janelle’s Great-Grandmother’s Garden
Today we’ve got an unusual GPOD submission. Janelle Molony is sharing with us the story and some photos of her great-grandparents, Louis and Martha Nasch, from St. Paul, Minnesota. The…