Planning Your Vegetable Garden

Couleur / Pixabay   It is time to plan your vegetable garden for the coming season. Seed catalogs are coming in the mail.  The weather may be horrible but you can dream of spring and planting your garden.  You can plan your garden and order your seeds and plants while...

How to Transplant Vegetable Plants

Seedlings ready to harden off If you do vegetable gardening, chances are you buy some plants from nurseries or other growers.  Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are the most commonly bought starts.  Just because someone else started...

Growing Winter Squash

Winter Squash photo by Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble Winter squash is grown much like summer squash.  The difference is in the harvest.  Summer squash is picked while it is immature and the rind is soft.  Winter squash is picked when mature and the rind hard.  Winter...

Evaluating Your Vegetable Garden

Napa Cabbage Do you evaluate your vegetable garden each year?  How does it do?  I don’t mean if it is an A student, but how does the amount of work put into the garden balance out with the amount of produce that comes out of the garden.  Since most people plan...