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.
Ever noticed how most gardening advice floating around sounds like your grandma’s incantations to her prize-winning tomatoes? You hear it, you nod, but when you’re actually standing in front of your own sprawling plant… suddenly the magic feels a little lost in translation. There’s no voodoo, no chanting under a full moon, no elaborate rain…
Let me be very honest with you, I’m personally not the biggest fan of zucchini. I’m more of a cucumber person, you know. But, my family absolutely LOVES zucchini; I’m pretty sure they’d cry if I told them this season’s zucchini harvest went bad. My mom even adds zucchini to dishes that aren’t supposed to…
When growing a cucumber plant, many growers tend to face issues with leaf breakdown and curling. As a matter of fact, my first set of cucumber plants died because of this problem, so you know it’s a serious one. In today’s article, we’ll try to understand why leaves curl and discuss a few fixes and…
Are your tomato plants sagging and wilting all of a sudden? Well, the problem may be that you’re not implementing the right support ideas to help your tomato plants. In this article, I’ll be taking you through some of my favorite support structures for tomatoes that will keep the plants upright and loaded with sweet,…
Most of my friends who live in apartments keep telling me they wish they could enjoy fresh, homegrown food and that I’m lucky to have my own backyard. So, if you’re one of those people who believe that without a big backyard your only option is to buy everything from the store, let me ask…
When I was young, I always wondered why my mom set up these cages near her cucumber plants. One day, I finally asked her why, and her response was, “You’ll figure it out someday”. At first, I thought she was just not having a good day and didn’t want to explain it to me, so…