Growing lettuce is quick and easy and the crop is ideally suited to growing in pots. Utilizing containers to grow delicious leaves offers many benefits, including protection against pests and the ...

For more than two decades, Nadia has been a copywriter, editor, and translator for digital and print in a variety of industries. Her passions and areas of expertise are food and gardening. She has ...

There is nothing more satisfying for a vegetable gardener in mid-July than tossing together a salad for dinner with ingredients harvested just outside your back door. While cucumber, squashes, and the ...

Many gardeners never think about growing vegetables indoors. But with the right balance of light, water, and warmth, you can grow lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and many other food crops inside ...

Sure, lettuce is easy. Radishes are fast. But if you’re only going to grow one vegetable, chances are it will be tomatoes. Americans love tomatoes. We ate more than 20 pounds of fresh tomatoes per ...

Here in southeastern Michigan, we have just about enough time for a fall crop of leaf lettuce. About four weeks from the average first frost of autumn is a good approximation of the last chance to ...

Barbara Damrosch is a lifelong vegetable gardener who’s been one of the most prolific writers on that subject for decades, along with her garden-author husband, Eliot Coleman. The two are best known ...

We can grow some of our food inside our house here in winter. Lettuce and other greens are a good place to start. Some vegetables need the blazing hot sun of Michigan’s summer to produce nice food. A ...

Use recycled containers (like yogurt pots or old buckets) for growing if space or budget is tight. Harvest strawberries, ...

A view of flying honey bees in a swarm. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Do you have a gardening question? The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County can help. Our volunteers are part of the University ...