Planning your carrot yield should be simple. One seed equals one carrot. Easy! Right? Well, it depends on a few factors, and the most significant of all is choosing the right carrot variety to ensure reliable yields. I’m going to take some time here, because planning carrot yields can be much more complicated than you…
The intense zip of sweet, hydrating, crunch from a fresh homegrown cucumber cannot be beaten by anything you can buy from a grocery store. And despite their large size, and delicate nature, they are really quite easy to grow, producing plenty of fruit per plant. Planning your cucumber yield has two factors; variety, and harvest…
Growing peppers is famously challenging in our climate. The cooler winters and shorter summers create a constant balancing act between vegetative growth and fruit development. However, if you get the balance right you can easily plan how many pepper plants you’ll need to grow per person In this article, I want to talk about typical…
Choosing the best high-yielding tomato plants is more than a little complicated, but there are a few simple tricks to pick the best plants. Everything from variety to the health of seedlings and when you plant them will give you an indication of how many tomatoes each plant will produce. In this guide, I’ll be…
If you’re aiming for self-sufficiency on a low budget, and in a relatively small garden there is no better plant to grow than zucchini. Even tiny balcony gardens can accommodate a planter with one zucchini plant, and by the end of summer, you’ll have harvested so much that you’re sick of them! In this article,…
So many gardeners these days love to grow special heirloom variety plants for many different reasons. I get it, heirlooms have a lot of great qualities. But, what about their not-so-great qualities? Growing heirloom seeds can come with disadvantages like pest and disease susceptibility, slow development, low fruit production, labor intensiveness, and their ability to…