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.
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
Corn, also known as maize, originated in Mexico 9000 years ago and is now the staple food of many countries across the world. There are many different hybrids and cultivars of corn today. Some are designed for human consumption while others are more suited to animal feed. But have you ever wondered how many ears of … Read more
Eating the leafy tops of carrots might seem a bit unusual so this article sets out to explore all the options when it comes to eating carrot tops, including how to eat them and delicious recipe ideas to try. In today’s world of supermarkets and online shopping, it’s sometimes easy to forget where our food … Read more
Find out how to eat beet greens with delicious recipes you can try. Reduce food waste and harvest more vegetables from your garden by eating beet leaves. Read on to find out more. What Are Beet Greens? Firstly, you might be wondering, what exactly are beet greens? Beet greens are the leafy tops grown on … Read more
This very easy recipe for quick pickled radishes is simple to make and delicious. You can turn fresh raw radishes into a tasty pickle in about 10 minutes! And this quick-pickled radishes recipe uses only 4 ingredients. Pickling radishes mellows the flavor of the radish. The peppery bite of the radish is sweetened, soured, and … Read more
While you may not always find the kiwano melon in your local grocery store, perceptive fans of recent blockbuster movies may recognize this strange-looking fruit. It makes cameos in Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It is also featured prominently in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Kiwano melon’s unique external appearance has led … Read more