Name This Plant Game: Vegetables 5
Chuck This simple game tests your gardening knowledge by identifying five flowers that are related to common vegetables. Photos of each flower are accompaned by their (common and botanical) name.
How to Grow Eggplant
Karen Eggplants are frost tender, heat-loving plants and sprout slowly from seeds so purchased plants are the most practical way to grow them. If you live in a frost free area…
Plant Profile: Pink ‘Firewitch’ (Dianthus gratianopolitanus) ‘Firewitch’
‘Firewitch’ is a good example of the adage that good things come in small packages. Of all the pinks in my garden this one is the most attractive throughout the…
How to Select Onions for the Home Vegetable Garden
Growing onions can be a frustrating experience until you realize that success rests on selecting to correct onion variety. Of course the selection process is going to put flavor above…
Plant Profile: Acorn Bush Squash ‘Table King’ (Cucurbita pepo ‘Table King’)
Whether you bake it, grill it, or use it as a base for soup, acorn squash is a tasty vegetable. Growing them is easy but space can be a problem…
Name This Plant Game: Vegetables 4
admin This simple game tests your gardening knowledge by identifying five flowers that are related to common vegetables. Photos of each flower are accompaned by their (common and botanical) name.
Plant Profile: Rose ‘Easy Does It’
When they named this floribunda rose “Easy Does It’, they weren’t kidding around. It is easy to grow, disease resistant, and a virtual flowering machine. Week after week a single…
Five Best Bulbs for Forcing
As bulb catalogs arrive in your mailbox during the summer begin to think about how wonderful a pot of tulips, daffodils, or hyacinths would look in January. Take time now…
How to Select Autumn Blooming Bulbs
Most gardeners are familiar with the bulbs that bloom in the spring and summer but there are also bulbs that bloom in autumn. The good news about fall blooming bulbs…
Plant Profile: Tomato ‘Big Beef’ F1 (Lycopersicon esculentum ‘Big Beef’)
Think about cooking up a hamburger on the outside grill and serving it with all fixings. Those big slices of tomato are probabably beefsteaks because they are the largest tomatoes…