Get your garden summer-ready with easy-to-follow tips for beginner gardeners. This section breaks down the basics for a range of sun-loving veggies.
Why did the spider mite cross the street? To get to your crisp, green cucumber patch, suck the sap from the leaves, and turn the leaves into a bronzed, webbed mess before you realize your harvest is slipping away. You expected a joke? No joking with August cucumber tasks! So here’s what I do to…
Your pepper patch worked hard all summer, and by August, I shift from simply keeping plants growing to helping them finish the season strong. Now it’s time for supervision, revision, and provision! The common thread through all these August pepper care tasks? Having a vision. (Also a guide, but it doesn’t rhyme.) Do-It-Right-Now Damage Control…
Welcome to the Tomato Club. Rule number one: we do not let fruit-laden vines snap, rot, or dry out in the late-summer heat. Rule number two: we respect regional growing calendars. Rule number three: we bow only to the almighty salsa and only while licking our plates. So grab your snips, stakes, and watering wand,…
Tomato plants can get heavy fast, especially once the fruit starts filling out. Give them the right support early, and you’ll avoid sagging stems, snapped branches, and tomatoes dragging through the soil. Here are eleven sturdy, field-tested setups that keep plants upright and make harvest season a whole lot less chaotic. If you’re also sorting…
Indoor peppers exist for two types of people: those living in the Northern US, and those with a Slavic grandma who considers an unstuffed vegetable a personal affront. So let me help you grow a crunchy harvest that satisfies even the sternest matriarch and her legendary stuffing recipes. If you’re experimenting with indoor gardening, we also put together a guide on…
Do you ever feel like your pepper yield drops a little every time you prune? Yeah… I dealt with the same thing when I first started growing peppers. What I’ve noticed over the years is that pruning can be really helpful, but only when it’s done at the right time and in the right way! In this…