For the most part, knowing when a vegetable is ready to harvest is pretty easy. Tomatoes turn red, beans fill out and ...

First, it has olive oil in it, and second, the finished ratatouille is too thick to be pressure canned safely. Since it ...

Wind down the growing season right by taking care of a few simple tasks that will boost your final tomato crop and set you up ...

Did you grow bland garlic this year? It's an easy fix, but you need to take care of a couple of things this fall and next growing season.

If you want beautiful marigolds year after year, that have adapted perfectly to your growing conditions, you need to save ...

You’ve just left the busy-ness of the city, to move out to the countryside, where everyday life moves a lot slower. The excitement of less stress, fewer distractions and more time for yourself is ...

The key to a low maintenance and low cost garden is to grow a variety of plants that readily self-seed. While most of the typical garden cultivars would require you to harvest, store, and then sow ...

Lovage (Levisticum officinale) is a hardy perennial herb native to the Mediterranean. As part of the Apiacaea family, it is closely related to carrot, celery, and parsley. This culinary and medicinal ...

Get ready – you’ll be seeing yellow by the end of this post. Let’s put that ground cherry harvest to good use. Did you grow ground cherries (sometimes referred to as cape gooseberries or husk cherries ...

All throughout the year, glass jars are in season. Pickle jars, mustard jars, jam jars, peanut butter jars, Mason jars… Tall ones, short ones, blue ones, clear ones. Glass jars can be found in all ...