Category: Growing Food

Tips and Techniques for Growing Food.

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.

Vegetable Gardening 101

Learn how to grow your own vegetable garden with these simple steps. From planning and mapping to companion planting, maximize your harvest.

Grow Food from Kitchen Scraps

Learn how to regrow vegetables from kitchen scraps. Reduce waste and enjoy a continuous supply of fresh produce at home.

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 growers and small farms prosper by offering blueberries as a u-pick crop, and by creating one-of-a-kind value-added blueberry products such as pancake mixes, or blueberry flavored organic yogurt and ice cream.

Growing Lettuce

Lettuce is easy to grow and a good crop for the beginning gardener. Start growing lettuce with these tips.