How to grow vegetables at home. Create your own vegetable garden with easy to follow instructions on how to plant, care and harvest vegetables. From the easiest vegetables to grow to fast growing vegetables, we show you how.
Broccoli is a cool weather plant, which means that it grows best in moderate weather. This also means that in many areas, broccoli can have a short window in which to grow well, so gardeners often find themselves struggling with broccoli that flowers instead of continuing to grow. If your broccoli is flowering (known as … Read more
Broccoli is a versatile, delicious vegetable packed with nutrients and goodness but did you know you can also eat broccoli leaves and flowers? When you grow your own broccoli you might realize what a small portion of the plant we traditionally eat. It seems such a waste to throw all those big, lush broccoli leaves … Read more
Is your eggplant flowering but not developing fruit? You’ve come to the right place! Here we are exploring the causes and solutions for why your eggplant flowers but does not produce fruit. Eggplants flower but don’t fruit when the plant is under stress. A stressed plant will drop its flowers in order to survive. Without … Read more
So you have a bag of potatoes you bought from the grocery store and forgot about them. Now, those potatoes have started sprouting and you’re wondering, can you plant sprouted potatoes? We’ve all been there, so let’s find out the answer. You can successfully grow potato plants from sprouted potatoes bought from the store. Sprouting potatoes are easy to grow in the … Read more
There is nothing worse than going to all the effort of growing what should be delicious organic celery only to find it is bitter and horrible. There are five main reasons why celery becomes overly bitter. Read on to find out what causes celery to become bitter and how you can ensure your celery crop … Read more
This sweet stewed chayote fruit recipe is super simple to make and the perfect way to use up a bumper harvest of chayote. If you love the taste of stewed apples, then you’ll love this sweetened chayote compote. Chayote, also known as choko, can easily be used as a cooked apple substitute or mock apple. … Read more
Have you ever spent time lovingly cooking a dish with eggplant only to taste a mouthful of bitterness and horror? Well, I’ve been there too. And I wanted to find out what makes eggplants bitter and how to make sure I never eat a bitter eggplant again. Read on to find out more. Related: Can … Read more
Okra is a productive vegetable to grow in the vegetable garden, producing an abundant harvest of food for your table. Here we’ll explore how to grow okra including details on planting, caring for your okra plants, harvesting okra, and some ideas for how to eat them. Let’s dig in. Okra Plant Profile Okra, whose botanical … Read more
Find out how to grow chayote squash as we cover planting, caring for, and harvesting chayote at home. Chayote is a prolific producer when grown in the right conditions and a popular vegetable to grow in a survival garden, food forest, or just an urban vegetable garden, so let’s find out how. Chayote Squash Plant … Read more
If you’re wondering how to eat chayote, also known as choko, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ll explore eating chayote, including how it tastes, how to cook chayote, and recipe ideas to try. So whether you have a chayote vine growing in your yard or you’re just curious as to how to use … Read more