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.
As gardeners, we have all been there. To pick or not to pick? Is it ripe enough? Should I leave it one more day? Or do I take the risk and harvest it now? Valid questions, even for an experienced gardener. So, to allay any doubts, this article will look at a few general tips…
It doesn’t take a lot to successfully grow peas, but figuring out when to pick them can be a bit of a mystery, particularly for new and inexperienced growers. But not to worry, because in this article you’ll find everything you need to know so you can harvest this tasty, cool-weather crop at its ideal sweetness.
Corn on the cob used to be my favorite summer treat as a child, and my parents used to grow lots of it. I’ve been gardening for a couple of years in my small kitchen garden and never really thought much of growing corn. In my mind, my space was simply too small.
Zucchinis are one of those productive summer crops that take off when the weather gets on and just keep on giving. They don’t need much care to be productive. But still, some varieties that are prone to powdery mildew can benefit from being tidied up every now and then.
Cucumbers are amazingly productive if you treat them right. They are vining plants, so they will need trellising or training and, since they grow so fast, a lot of pruning. There are a couple of ways you can go about pruning, and this article will give you a deep understanding of how, when, and why you should prune cucumber plants.
Most of us have short seasons and need to start our eggplants indoors or buy them as seedlings from the nursery. By the time the soil is warm enough for transplanting, eggplants are already mature, tall plants. Some even set flowers at this point. So what’s the best way of transplanting them? Do we bury them deep, like tomatoes, or do we keep the soil line where it is?