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Video: Composting Made Easy

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 20104 comments

Jodie Colon, Compost Educator at Bronx Green-Up, shows you how to mix dead, dry leaves and stems, fresh moist green plant materials, and food scraps in a compost heap.

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Video: How to Plant Tomatoes

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 2010

Tomatoes like to be planted very deeply. Deep planting helps to ensure that your plants will grow to be healthy and robust.If your plant came in a peat pot, make sure you remove all of the pot before...

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Video: Getting Started in Worm Composting

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 20101 comment

Here's how to turn your kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich compost.

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Home-Grown Potatoes!

Chris McLaughlin, contributor | February 25th, 20104 comments

My fellow gardeners we are looking March square in the eye and I, for one, am getting itchy.

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Grow Your Vegetables Vertically

Chris McLaughlin, contributor | February 24th, 20103 comments

It's easy to forget about some prime growing real estate that's right before your eyes. We gardeners are usually busy looking at the horizon for growing room.

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Take Your Plants for a Ride

Jodi Torpey, contributor | February 23rd, 2010

The Rotary Garden is an innovative new product that’s perfect for growing edibles in small spaces. Wheels make the garden portable so it can be moved to where ever the sun shines brightest.

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An Indoor Herb Garden Tides Us Over Until Spring

susan belsinger, contributor | February 22nd, 20102 comments

Record snowfall in the mid-Atlantic this winter has kept us inside, so why not sow some seeds indoors?

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How Much Space Do You Need For a Vegetable Garden?

Chris McLaughlin, contributor | February 21st, 2010

Not much. One thing is for sure, you absolutely do not need what is referred to as "land" to plant a vegetable garden. Not even close.

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Video: Victory Garden (1942 edition)

Ruth Dobsevage, editor | February 21st, 20103 comments

Vintage footage alert: Watch the Holder family plant their quarter-acre Victory Garden in Maryland and find out what a Victory Garden meant in 1942.

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Video: Aquaponics

Ruth Dobsevage, editor | February 19th, 20102 comments

Yes, you can grow vegetables in water. In aquaponics, the plants are fertilized by fish. Rob Torcellini's greenhouse, assembled from a kit, is home to fish and plants in an interconnected system cobbled together from pipes, pumps, and tanks. Take a video tour, and learn more about aquaponics.

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Video: How to Transplant Seedlings

JMTaylor, member | February 19th, 20102 comments

This video will show you how to transplant your young seedlings to the garden or larger containers. "Handel" with care, for best results.

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Grow this Frittata...and more

Jodi Torpey, contributor | February 17th, 20101 comment

“Grocery Gardening,” Jean Ann Van Krevelen’s newest book, is all about planting, preparing and preserving fresh food. It’s perfect for cooks who want to be better gardeners or gardeners who want to be better cooks—and everyone in between.

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Savory for Winter Dishes

susan belsinger, contributor | February 16th, 20102 comments

I’ve been discussing the robust herbs for warming winter dishes in my blogs for January and part of February and Savory is my last, but not least entry. I believe that savory is an underused...

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What is a Food Desert?

Chris McLaughlin, contributor | February 14th, 20102 comments

It may have never have crossed your mind that some cities don't have grocery stores. They have "convenience stores" - and that's not the same thing at all.

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Rabbit Manure in the Garden

Chris McLaughlin, contributor | February 13th, 20105 comments

Anyone who comes within a few yards of my garden is forced to discuss rabbit poop and its many gardening benefits - whether they want to or not. I'm determined to spread the bunny-gospel.

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Canned Vegetable Seeds a Thrifty Idea

Jodi Torpey, contributor | February 11th, 20101 comment

One-gallon cans of jumbo-sized packets of garden seeds can be a thrifty alternative for home gardeners who plant large gardens. Each large can contains 16 different veggie favorites and gives new meaning to “canned vegetables.”

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Garden Planning for Cooks and Foodies

Seed Savers Exchange, contributor | February 11th, 20101 comment

Planning your garden around a meal or style of cooking can give you a season full of perfect and affordable ingredients.

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Video: How to Grow Potatoes in Containers

Vegetable Gardener, editor | February 11th, 20106 comments

What's not to love about potatoes? They're tasty, require little maintenance to grow, and even produce pretty flowers. If you have the right container, you don't even need to plant them in the ground. Check out this video on growing potatoes in the most unlikely of places: a kitchen garbage can.

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Video: How to Start Seeds

JMTaylor, member | February 8th, 201010 comments

This video will show you how to start plants from seeds successfully. Site member Mike Taylor used it to grow several thousand plants lasts year. Could it be that seedlings like Vivaldi?

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