Vegetables

Vegetable gardening is one of the most satisfying things on the planet. Learn how to maximize your veggie garden this year and for the future!

Rows of ripe, colorful yellow, red, green, orange and purple spiciest pepper varieties.

Vegetables

Growing the World’s Spiciest Peppers: 9 Varieties to Plant This Year

If you love heat, these daredevil peppers might be for you. Ornamental in the edible landscape and on the plate, spicy peppers bring unmatched flavor and punch. While the profiles vary, there’s no missing the high Scoville units for the spiciest pepper varieties available. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the hottest of the hot to add kick to the collection this summer.

A shot of a cluster of developing round fruits on a vine, on a support structure, showcasing how to grow tomatoes vertically

Vegetables

9 Ways to Grow Tomatoes Vertically: DIY Solutions

To get the maximum yield and promote overall health, growing tomatoes vertically has advantages. The space-saving measure supports vines as they develop all those tender fruits. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the primary ways to grow tomatoes vertically and creative DIY solutions for inspiration.

Onions bolting. Thick stems emerge from leafy bases, each crowned with a spherical cluster of tiny white blossoms.

Vegetables

5 Reasons Your Onions Are Bolting and What to Do About It

Watching your carefully tended onion crop suddenly send up flower stalks can be frustrating for any gardener. But understanding why onions bolt and how to prevent it can save your harvest. Garden expert Madison Moulton explains the 5 main causes of onion bolting and what you can do to stop it.

An overhead shot of freshly harvested leaves and roots of the cassava

Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Cassava

Cassava, or yuca, is a delicious root vegetable from tropical regions of the world. It grows well in warm gardens with long, hot summers. Though it requires some care to grow properly, homegrown yuca is well worth the effort! Learn how to plant, grow, and care for this giant perennial vegetable.

A shot of a developing purple colored crop and its leaves on a support structure, showcasing how to stake eggplant

Vegetables

5 Reasons You Should Stake Your Eggplants and How to Do It

Eggplants are prolific producers, and supporting their vigorous stems brings advantages for healthy growth and fruiting. To protect the yield and boost quality fruits, garden expert Katheirne Rowe outlines reasons to stake eggplants, which ones benefit, and simple installations to do the job.

Growing eggplants in pots and containers. A sturdy plant with thick, slightly fuzzy stems, broad green leaves with wavy edges, and glossy purple fruits hanging below in a large terracotta pot in the garden.

Vegetables

How to Grow Eggplants in Pots and Containers

Container-grown eggplants yield diverse fruits for easy enjoyment from the pot to the plate. The pretty fruits on manageable forms suit container culture. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow the nightshades across garden spaces in the ease of a pot.

Close-up of female hands hand-pollinating a bright yellow star-shaped cucumber flower using a paintbrush.

Vegetables

How to Hand-Pollinate Cucumbers in 5 Easy Steps

Cucumbers, with their bright, tubular blooms, rely on bees and other insects for pollination. Without a strong show of visits, fruiting lessens in number and quality. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores when and how to hand-pollinate cucumbers for the greatest number of crisp, cool rewards this summer.

In the garden bed, the best types of lettuces grow in rows, forming rosettes of oval oblong green leaves with red markings, curly green leaves with red-purple edges, and ruffled soft green leaves.

Vegetables

Is There a Perfect Lettuce? We Find Out

Lettuce grows quickly from seed in versatile spaces, from raised beds to pots and in the ground. Cool, mild conditions and successional rounds generate a continual harvest of leafy greens. In a quest to find the best selections for the salad bowl, Epic Gardening’s leaders, Kevin and Jacques, trial the best lettuces to grow this spring.

A close-up shot of ripe and red fruits attached on its runners on a wooden surface, showcasing how long tomatoes ripen

Vegetables

How Long Do Tomatoes Take to Ripen on the Vine?

With tomato plants tucked in for the season, we anticipate their juicy rounds with summer’s warming temperatures. Knowing when to pick makes a difference in capturing the best quality. Get a gauge on how long it takes tomatoes to vine-ripen for peak flavor with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

Close-up of a female gardener's hands with a freshly dug up young tomato seedling with slender green stem and pairs of bright green, serrated leaves unfurling which was planted too early.

Vegetables

What to Do if You Planted Tomatoes Too Early

If you love tomatoes it’s easy to get excited and plant them too early. But what is the best course of action if you do? Experienced gardener and master naturalist, Sarah Jay has a few strategies for dealing with tomato season eagerness.

A close-up shot of several red fruits and greed legume pods that showcases plant tomatoes with green beans

Vegetables

Can You Plant Tomatoes With Green Beans?

Companion planting is an ingenious way to cram more crops into a small space. Rather than keeping each species separate, plant beneficial pairings like green beans and tomatoes, beets and onions, or turnips and peas. One crop will help the other grow, and you’ll have more to harvest at the end of the growing season!