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Blue Potatoes: Plant an Easy-to-Grow Heirloom in the Spring

Why blue potatoes? Why not? First, THIS is what potatoes looked like originally, when first used...

Avoid Blight with the Right Tomato

Tomatoes will succumb to late blight (Phytophthora) if they’re experiencing cool, soggy summer...

Tomato Trials: from blue to grafted; what grew this summer.

In March, Tom Wagner, the tomato breeder who created Green Zebra, Banana Legs and more, sent me...

Heat, late snow, floods, tornadoes: this year is challenging for every gardener.

Our nation has experienced one of the most bizarre and severe spring-summer transitions in over a...

Beans are easy vegetables to grow in any climate.

Have you planted beans yet in your garden? I haven’t and am pushing myself out the door this...

The ABC's of Fertilizing Containers

A continuous supply of nutrients and fertilizer is an absolute for lush container bouquets and...

Plant these radishes for their tasty seed pods

Forget those crunchy, bland, red, pink and white radishes found on relish plates. They’re tasteless...

Heart-shaped cucumbers make debut

I missed it two weeks ago, but Sainsbury, the largest grocery chain in the United Kingdom, ...

The Old Farmer's Almanac Garden-Fresh Cookbook

This brand-new collection features more than 325 delicious recipes that celebrate that flavors of...

Lettuce Grow!

The holidays are history, seed catalogs are piled in a basket next to a comfortable chair by the...