Plant Guide: Vegetables & Herbs

These tomatoes come from a mid-sized garden that my husband and I have in our backyard.

Credit: Jennifer Miller

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Welcome to our plant guide to vegetables and herbs! Our plant pages provide essential planting and growing information for the most popular garden crops. 

You'll also find advice on pests, recommended varieties, great recipes for the kitchen, and a dose of Almanac wit and wisdom!

See our Best Planting Dates for Seeds to calculate when to plant indoors, in the ground, and by the Moon.

Click on either the Vegetable Guide or the Herb Guide below—then select your plant! 

Vegetable Guide

Herb Guide

Vegetable and Herb Advice

Across our Web site are many edible gardening articles and videos that we hope you'll enjoy! Here is a sampling:

• A Beginner's Vegetable Garden
• Best Planting Dates for Seeds (Table)
• Growing Guide: Vegetables
• Growing Guide: Herbs
• Herb Companions in the Garden and Kitchen
• Container Gardening for Veggies
• Growing Potatoes in a Trash Can (Video)
• When to Water Vegetables
• How to Make Asparagus Hummus (Video)
• Root Cellars: Handle Your Harvest With Care
• Root Cellars: How to Keep It Cool
• Storing Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
• The Tomato Circle: Planting Tomatoes Horizontally (Blog)
• Vegetable Nutrition Chart
• A Cook's Garden: Corn, Okra, Shallots

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