Growing Blueberries for Fun or Profit
Blueberries are well known for fresh eating, pies, jams, jellies, syrups, juice, and baked goods such as blueberry muffins, pancakes and waffles. But, they are also baked into squash dishes and coffee cakes. Backyard...
Growing Organic Cabbage
Cabbage is a staple every gardener should grow, and it's not hard to learn to grow cabbage. It does help to have some basic know-how, though. In this article we'll reveal how to avoid...
Growing Lettuce
Plant in Spring and Again in Summer for Cool Weather Harvests
There are few things more refreshing than a salad of sweet, crisp, spring lettuce fresh from the garden--unless it's fall lettuce fresh from the...
Planting Organic Cabbage Seeds for Spring and Fall Harvest
Organic cabbage seeds will produce heads up to 8 pounds in size under proper conditions. They can be chopped into salads, used in stir fry, cooked with hamburger into Runzas or made into sauerkraut....
Wild Strawberries – Interesting Facts About the Virginia Strawberry
During the Middle Ages in Europe the Romans enjoyed the taste of wild strawberries. Wild strawberries were first discovered by the Europeans when they sailed to North America and landed in Virginia in the...
Growing Strawberries in The Home Garden
Strawberries are the number one fruit crop for home plantings. Strawberries may also be grown as a cash crop in large home plantings.
On the other hand strawberries are a versatile, highly nutritious fruit. One...
Growing Organic Pumpkins
If you use floating row covers, you can transplant pumpkins to your garden a couple weeks before the last anticipated frost. Growing organic pumpkins is simple... learn how in this post.
Pumpkin Facts
If you're growing...
Growing Organic Zucchini
Zucchini is a "summer squash" and therefore doesn't store long term like winter squash such as butternut or acorn squash. Learn great tips on growing organic zucchini in this article.
Delicious Zucchini Tidbits
Zucchini is a...
Growing Organic Watermelon
Growing organic watermelon is rewarding, but only if you know what you're doing. Watermelon is not hard to grow, but is takes more knowledge than corn or peas. In this article we'll reveal how...
Secret for Growing Lots of Healthy Tomatoes
How Rowena Knows How to Use Marigolds
I was born in Bunkie, Louisiana in 1951 to a strong woman named Rowena. My mother was very knowledgeable about plants because she was born (1923) and raised...
