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Edible

5 Signs Your Beets are Ready to Harvest

Beets fill garden beds with strappy green leaves and bulbous orange and red beetroots. When is the best time to harvest them? Let’s dive underground to see what types of beets exist and how they ripen. Join seasoned gardener Jerad Bryant in discovering these five signs your beets are ready for harvesting.

A patch of small, smooth-leaved plants with rounded, slightly elongated leaves growing in dark soil, surrounded by healthy greenery from nearby plants.

Vegetables

13 Asian Greens You Should Plant This Season

Asian greens are popular worldwide tor their versatile flavor and rich nutrition. With quick-gorwing qualities and a preference for the cool season, now is the perfect time to plant the leafy culinary stars for prolific yields. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring favorite crops with wide appeal.

A gardener's hand holds a bunch of freshly harvested turnips, showcasing their round, white roots with a purple blush and vibrant green, leafy tops.

Vegetables

How and When to Harvest Turnips in the Garden

Turnips aren’t stodgy old root vegetables. The historic roots now come in new varieties that are versatile in cuisine with a sweet, crisp flavor, and tailored to raw eating or cooked dishes. Explore the ideal time to harvest the globes and their leafy tops for the best flavor with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

Close-up of a gardener's hand harvesting broccoli, revealing dark blue-green leaves with prominent veins fanning out around a dense, central cluster of tightly packed green buds.

Vegetables

How and When to Harvest Broccoli for the Tastiest Crop

Broccoli is a tasty, tender crop with lots of nutrients. It’s perfect for backyard gardens! You may wonder when it ripens, and when you should harvest its heads. Wonder no more, since we’ll discover when and how to harvest your growing veggies. Learn to cut your broccoli heads in this guide alongside seasoned grower Jerad Bryant.

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Seeds

23 Plants You Can Grow From Seed In 50 Days or Less

Whether we’re making haste to beat cold weather or looking to infill a bare patch in the garden bed, plants that grow quickly from seed accomplish wonders. Superfast growers yield blooms and harvests in a delightfully quick turnaround. Enjoy the rewards of fast-growing flowers and vegetables with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

A sun-drenched white clover cover crop showcases vibrant green, three-lobed leaves and clusters of delicate white flowers, effectively leaving empty garden beds covered in lush, beneficial ground cover.

Gardening Tips

7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Leave Your Garden Beds Empty at the End of the Season

A clean garden bed is a blank slate for the next round of planting, but it's also an opportunity to enrich soils and habitat while preventing weeds in the “off” season. If you’re giving your raised or in-ground beds a winter break, consider leaving vegetation in place, adding mulch, or sowing a crop cover for added benefits. Explore reasons to avoid a clean sweep with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

A garden with Fall beet varieties, with bulbous crops having red stems, covered in soil colored dark brown

Vegetables

11 Beet Varieties You Can Plant In Fall

Root vegetables are a culinary signature of autumn, and beets, in red, gold, and white, add variety to the mix. Earthy and sweet, beets feature flavorful roots and leafy tops rich in nutrition. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in a look at beet varieties perfect for fall planting.

Ornamental kale containers filled with vivid green leaves of vegetable under the sun in an area of the garden

Ornamental Gardens

13 Varieties of Ornamental Kale For Your Fall Containers

Ornamental kale is a staple in autumnal displays, adding bursts of color and textural leaves in an easy-care form. Grown for its decorative value, ornamental selections add high contrast to potted arrangements among seasonal bloomers. With gardening expert Katherine Rowe, enjoy the frills, ruffles, and feathers of specialized kale selections that thrive in the cool season.

A little girl in a garden holding young flowering orange marigold seedlings and a white watering can, showcasing fast-growing plants for kids.

Gardening Inspiration

19 Fast-Growing Plants to Grow with Kids

The garden is a wonderful place to teach children lessons that will follow them all their lives. Sometimes, they have a hard time being patient. Gardner and mom of three, Melissa Strauss has some great, fast-growing plants to share with you and your kiddos!