Strawberries are one of the summer’s quintessential fruits: sweet, brightly colored, and readily available at your favorite grocer or farmer’s market. As one of the most versatile fruits, strawberries can be blended in iced drinks, smoothies, preserves, desserts, and more! Strawberries are also an easy-to-grow plant, appropriate for practically all spaces and gardening skill levels….
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How to Grow Potatoes 101
Potatoes are one of the staple foods that you just can’t live without. They are a fixture on every American dinner table — whether fried, baked, mashed, scalloped, or roasted. And because it’s such an indispensable food item, you are probably compelled to know how to grow potatoes in your own vegetable garden. The great…
Alfalfa Seed: Ultimate Guide To Gardening
Whether you’re interested in growing alfalfa for your own culinary creations or to feed livestock, this ultimate guide to alfalfa seed gives you all you need to know for growing, harvesting, and maintaining this nutritious, easy-care grass. What Is Alfalfa? Image from Pixabay Alfalfa is a fairly hardy perennial grass in the legume family. Legumes…
Where Do Potato Seeds Come From?
Have you ever seen potato seeds at your local big box store or hardware store? Most people probably have not seen them. But if that is the case, the question is, how do potatoes grow? Do Potatoes Really Have Seeds? Potato plants do have seeds. Potato plants produce flowers. But usually, these flowers dry and…
Where To Buy Clover Seed In Bulk
Ever since the Earth turned green, there has been clover. Clover seed and clover itself have been used throughout time as medicine, food, for decoration, and also protection. Clovers are wonderful plants that contribute greatly to livestock, soil stabilization, and other situations in which plant vegetation is desired. Benefits clovers can provide include improved forage…
The Definitive Guide To Vegetable Gardening For Beginners
Vegetable gardening is an excellent way to bring fresh, homegrown produce to your family’s dinner table. Check out our complete guide for starting your own!
4 Beginner Ways to Tell When Your Carrots Are Ready to Harvest
“What’s up Doc?” are three words most famously attributed to Bugs Bunny, everyone’s favorite carrot lover. But did you know that Mel Blanc, the original voice actor of Bugs Bunny for nearly five decades, hated carrots? Initially, they tried to let him chew other crunchy food that could mimic the sound of chewing carrots, but…
How To Grow Cucumbers: Everything You Need To Know
This favorite salad vegetable is, by scientific definition, actually a fruit. It grows from inside the yellow flower blossom and is filled with seeds. It is typically used, however, as a vegetable, adding savory spices and salt when preparing it. The cucumber is a derivative of the gourd family called Curcurbits. Other Curcurbits include melons,…
Growing Your Own Catnip Plant
A catnip plant is a perennial herb that is also known as catswort and catmint, because it’s a member of the mint family. Its notched triangular leaves and small flowers give this plant a distinctive appearance. Planting, Tending, and Using the Hardy Catnip Plant The plant usually lasts for two years. Catnip is native to…
How To Plant Stevia Outdoors
Stevia plant is a green herbal plant with a long history of uses dating back to the early 1500s. It was a discovery by Pedro Jaime Esteve, a Spanish physician and botanist. The people of South America, Brazil and Paraguay have used this plant they called “sweet herb” to sweeten teas and medicines since its…