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Learn all about edible gardening to improve your health, save on groceries, and reconnect with nature. Our detailed guides show you how to grow food!

A shot of a rapini broccoli rabe crop placed on a wooden surface

Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Rapini (Broccoli Rabe)

Are you looking to grow a new and exciting vegetable in your garden this year? Try growing rapini broccoli rabe and discover why European gardeners love it so much. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum covers how to plant, grow, and care for this fantastic vegetable.

Various species of heat tolerant lettuce, with bright green, red and purple leaves with wrinkled and smooth textures, smooth and curly edges, grow in rows in a garden bed.

Vegetables

15 Heat-Tolerant Lettuce Varieties to Grow All Summer

Leafy lettuce tastes great until it doesn’t! Hot weather forces these tender crops to bolt. They sprout flowers and their leaves turn bitter. One solution is to grow heat-tolerant lettuce varieties. Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares 15 favorites that excel from late spring through summer.

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Vegetables

7 Broccoli Growing Mistakes to Avoid This Season

Growing broccoli doesn't have to be difficult, but there are some important factors to consider if you want a bumper crop of this green veggie. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss has some mistakes to avoid when growing your own cruciferous crop.

An overhead shot of a seedling of a crop that showcases how to grow broccoli from seed

Vegetables

How to Grow Broccoli From Seed

Cole crops fill temperate gardens with lush and edible foliage, flowers, and stems. Broccoli is one of the most widely grown cole crops, and for good reason! It sprouts dense, green heads with clusters of unopened flowers. Join seasoned grower Jerad Bryant in learning how to start this tasty crop from seed.

Close up of bunch of freshly picked fresh eating carrots with elongated tapered bright orange roots with bright green tufts of feathery leaves on top, in hand of gardener, against green garden background.

Vegetables

Our 9 Favorite Carrots For Fresh Eating

The nutritional richness and sweet crunch of garden-fresh carrots are within reach. The compact root vegetables take up little space and do well with simple direct sowing. Tuck some into the vegetable bed this spring with selections prime for fresh eating. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores top carrot varieties to sow now for that unmatched homegrown carrot appeal.

A bed with rows of growing bibb lettuce plants with soft, bright green leaves forming compact, rounded heads with gently ruffled edges and a smooth, tender texture.

Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Bibb Lettuce

Although bibb lettuce’s buttery leaves are delicious, they don’t always hold up well in transport. Therefore, growing this lettuce at home is one of the best ways to enjoy this tender crop. Join farmer Briana Yablonski to learn how to grow bibb lettuce from seed to harvest.

A whole and a halved Allium cepa bulb with glossy outer layers and tightly packed inner rings.

Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Red Onions

If you love cooking, you probably love the taste and versatility of red onions. But did you know that you can grow these onions easily at home? In this article, horticulture expert Matt Dursum covers how to plant, grow, and care for red onions in your garden.

A gardener holds a freshly harvested bunch of colorful carrots variety, with vibrant orange, purple, and yellow roots and feathery green tops.

Vegetables

9 Colorful Carrot Varieties to Plant This Season

Before the classic orange carrot was its predecessors in purple, red, gold, and white. Today, there’s a resurgence in colorful carrot varieties to enliven fresh snacking and culinary experiences. Garden expert Katherine Rowe shares bright selections to easily incorporate into the vegetable garden this spring.

Rows of Daucus carota roots, bright orange and thick, partly emerging from dark, loose soil. The green feathery leaves are upright and dense above each root.

Vegetables

How To Grow Carrots From Seed: 5 Easy Steps

Growing carrots from seed lets us choose our favorite heirloom, organic, and conventional varieties and grow them in numbers for yields all season. Dedicating a patch or tucking them in among other plants makes the small-space crops versatile in garden locations. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow carrots from seed for bright, colorful roots this summer.

Tight clusters of reddish-purple bulbils growing at the curved top ends of green hollow stalks.

Edible

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Walking Onions

Are you looking to grow unique varieties of onions this year? Walking onions actually appear like they’re stepping over each other as they grow. In this article, horticulture expert Matt Dursum covers how to plant, grow, and care for these strange yet delicious plants.

Freshly harvested Allium cepa bulbs in yellow, white, and red shades with green Allium fistulosum stalks.

Edible

15 Onion Varieties to Plant in March

With their crunchy texture and savory, pungent flavor, onions add a “wow” factor to meals. Whether you grow them from seeds or starts, these crops are essential for kitchen and cottage gardens. Join seasoned grower Jerad Bryant in discovering the 15 best onions to plant in March.