Plants

Grow edibles and ornamentals successfully—here’s how.

4 Ways to Make Your Vegetable Garden Beautiful

September 10, 2013 | Gardening Jones | 0

Vegetable gardens are becoming a thing of beauty as more gardeners are growing food in their front yards or making their edible gardens part of the home’s landscape. Personally, I always thought veggie gardens were a wonderful thing to see …

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Blazing Star: A Native Perennial With Spiky Purple Flowers

September 3, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love Liatris spicata for its wand-like spikes that bloom with clusters of radiant, feathery purple flower heads throughout late summer and early fall, atop rigid, upright stems over clumps of grass-like foliage.

Grow Your Own Microgreens for a Quick Harvest

September 3, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Microgreens are the tiny, young seedlings of some of our favorite edible plants such as kale, chard, beets, cabbage, mustard, radish, arugula and more. They are very easy to grow from seed and are rumored to be jam-packed with even …

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Why Didn’t My Summer Squash Plant Produce Squash?

September 3, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

My summer squash never really developed – the squash turned yellow and fell off. What went wrong?

When the Veg Garden Gives Too Much of a Good Thing

August 31, 2013 | Gardening Jones | 0

Even well-seasoned gardeners can find themselves with a larger harvest of any veggie than they expected.

Native, Non-invasive Coral Honeysuckle Vine

August 26, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love Lonicera sempervirens for its twining vines that bloom throughout spring into fall with whorled clusters of fiery reddish-orange trumpet-shaped honeysuckle flowers with golden centers. These give way to bright red berries. Lush bluish-green foliage creates a stunning …

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How to Corral Your Winter Squash and Melons

August 26, 2013 | Gardening Jones | 0

As vining plants, winter squash and melons sometimes seem to have a mind of their own. Carelessly growing out of beds and into pathways, up fences, even up other plants, they can not only hurt themselves, they sometimes harm others. …

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Plants

4 Ways to Make Your Vegetable Garden Beautiful

Blazing Star: A Native Perennial With Spiky Purple Flowers

Grow Your Own Microgreens for a Quick Harvest

Why Didn’t My Summer Squash Plant Produce Squash?

When the Veg Garden Gives Too Much of a Good Thing

Native, Non-invasive Coral Honeysuckle Vine

How to Corral Your Winter Squash and Melons

Cool-Season Annuals for Fall and Winter Window Boxes

German Garlic: a Pretty Allium with Nice Foliage and Flowers

Keeping Up with the Vegetable Garden’s Harvest

All You Need to Know About Growing Cucumbers