Category: Growing Food

Tips and Techniques for Growing Food.

Growing Giant Pumpkins

Whether you’re looking to break the current world record pumpkin weight of 1,689 pounds, or just see how big of a jack-o-lantern you can make this Halloween, growing a giant pumpkin is definitely an exciting obsession!

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Grape Growing in Pots

Even if you have a small backyard, you can always have a grapevine which will supply your family’s fruit requirements if you will do grape growing in pots.

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Two Ways of Growing Concord Grape Vines

Growing Concord grape vines is habitually done in lands with wide, open spaces. This is one is the most frequent and common way of growing Concord grapes. Other than this traditional Concord grape-growing method, there exists a unique and unorthodox manner of growing them and that is by planting them in containers.

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History of Grapevines

Because of the introduction of the European grapevines into America in the 1500’s, there was ample time for intermixing of species, so that taxonomists today have great difficulty of positively identifying a grapevine growing in the woods as a true native.

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History of The Pear

There is convincing archeological evidence from the excavation of the ancient lake dwellers in Switzerland that the European pear, Pyrus communis L., was known by that civilization.

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Pineapple Top Plant

Grow your own pineapple at home! Learn how to plant and care for pineapple tops to create a tropical oasis in your own garden or greenhouse.

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