Time-lapse video of growing a lettuce plant from a seed to flowers. A lettuce seed was sown in a container indoors. A week later, a seedling came up and quickly developed its first leaves. The plant ...

For more than two decades, Nadia has been a copywriter, editor, and translator for digital and print in a variety of industries. Her passions and areas of expertise are food and gardening. She has ...

It's so tempting to buy starts—I get it. It feels great to look out over the garden, and finally see something in the beds, bringing color back to the landscape. But before you buy, you should ...

Producing nice heads of rather bland iceberg lettuce is difficult in Texas, but the many types and colors of leaf lettuce are fairly easy to grow, as long as they are provided with cool temperatures ...

There is nothing more satisfying for a vegetable gardener in mid-July than tossing together a salad for dinner with ingredients harvested just outside your back door. While cucumber, squashes, and the ...

We can grow some of our food inside our house here in winter. Lettuce and other greens are a good place to start. Some vegetables need the blazing hot sun of Michigan’s summer to produce nice food. A ...

As food prices continue to rise faster than the general rate of inflation, growing your own looks more and more appealing. Often food prices take a quick jump due to things that are beyond the control ...

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