Vegetables

Fresh Vegetables The Year Around

Planned spring planting plus knowing how to store crops at harvest time add up to fresh vegetables out of your garden in summer, fall, winter, and spring.  Of course, to

Cardoon An Ornamental Vegetable

Gardening is one exciting adventure with many side trips along the way. One of my favorite trips was made with a cardoon plant.  The 18-month sojourn began when I saw

Freeze Corn Now

Freezing Corn

For a real treat this winter, why not freeze your home-grown corn right on the cob?  In the first place, I believe that this method produces the finest-flavored frozen corn.

Grow Jerusalem Artichoke

Jerusalem Artichoke

By planting tubers of Jerusalem artichokes (Helianthus tuberosus), a colorful plant may be added to the shrubbery border, or to brighten a corner of the garden. This sunflower grows 6’

For Good Eating Grow Your Own

Grow you own

If you consider fine food one of life’s pleasures, you are probably aware that there is no substitute for tender, succulent vegetables right from your garden.  Not only is the

Freezing Garden Produce

Freezing Foods

With home-freezing of foods steadily on the increase, fresh homegrown vegetables and fruits are still more important than ever before.  Since the revival brought about by the recession, the continued

Your Vegetable Storage Problems

Storage Problems

After spending most of the summer fighting bugs and insects and praying for rain to grow vegetables that are fit to eat, some of our gardeners like to store surplus

It’s Time For More Salad Days

Salad Days

So, here we are again! Just for the fun of it, dear readers, go back to your last issue of HORTICULTURE to pick up the reference to Cleopatra and her

Fall Strawberries: A Surprise Harvest?

Setting Strawberries

I became convinced of the value of planting strawberries in the fall of the mid-1990s. I have been systematically experimenting with strawberries since 1993 to grow the greatest yield from