Food stamps: Create unique art with garden produce
Stamping with fruits and vegetables is a great way for gardeners to showcase their homegrown produce and for adults to teach children about healthy food and basic botany.
Keepin’ it fresh: How to store garden produce
Proper storage of produce keeps it fresh and ripe until you are ready to eat or preserve it. Storing produce in ideal conditions also improves its taste, texture and appearance.
How to preserve the harvest: Food dehydration
Food dehydration is often overlooked as a method of food preservation, but it's a super space saver and and keeps foods safe from spoilage and pests.
Wild foods to try this summer
Local foods are hot right now, and it doesn’t get more local than foraging food in your backyard or at a nearby park.
Grow more with less: Cut and grow-again garden vegetables
Whether you have limited planting space or limited time to sow second and third crops, grow-again vegetables produce higher yields with less work.
How to attract pollinators to your yard
Providing pollinators with food, water and shelter supports strong plant production; plus you get to enjoy the beauty that hummingbirds, bees, butterflies and other pollinators bring to your yard!
Flowers add meaning and symbolism to the garden
Floriography is an intriguing study for those interested in how a flower’s characteristics, history and traditional uses give it symbolic meaning.
How to grow a container garden: 10 tips
Container gardens can be grown anywhere by gardeners of all skill levels and ability.
Water your vegetable garden for optimal performance
Watering the garden seems simple enough, but irrigation is something most gardeners get wrong.
How to transplant vegetable seedlings
Whether you started seeds yourself or purchased vegetable seedlings at the store, now is the time to transplant seedlings in your garden.
