In this section we offer articles about how the skill and enjoyment of growing your own food. Emphasis will be placed on that wonderful hobby of backyard city gardening.
We Explore:
- Growing vegetables
- Growing vegetables in small spaces.
- Growing vegetables in containers.
- Growing herbs.
- Growing grapes.
- Growing fruit trees.
- Growing dwarf fruit trees.
- Growing vine and bush berries.
- Choosing the best gardening tools.
- Growing seed plants for wild song birds.
- Harvesting seeds and how to promote natural reseeding.
- Caring for perennials.
- This history and lore of companion plants.
Last Update: Friday, March 16, 2018
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(Apr 7, 2018) dp
If you let your lettuce go to seed in the summer, the seeds will probably fall to the ground in concentrated clumps. Springtime comes and the seeds sprout in thick groups. As they begin to grow, you can thin them, pinch off the little root, wash the leaves and put the thinned baby plants right into your salad.
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(Mar 19, 2018) Danne
In the spring, if you purchase an egg case from our shop, take it home and place it in a sunny location a few inches to a foot or so above the ground, snug in a bush or low branch. Keep an eye on it. If you can catch the moment the nymphs begin to emerge from the case, you will witness an amazing sight.
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(Mar 16, 2018) Anonymous
Gardeners in California's Sacramento Valley often grow pumpkins the size of VW bugs. Prize winning pumpkins are so big that heavy duty pickup trucks are needed to transport single pumpkins to the judging platforms! In fact, pumpkins grown in California and Oregon can gain up to 10 pounds a day in weight during the peak growing days of the summer.
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(Mar 9, 2018) Dry Creek
Almonds, Apples, Cherries, Nectarines, Pears, Peaches and Plums grow well in many parts of California and Nevada. For more fruit and beautiful flowers, trees can be pruned back quite severely at the end of each year's growing season.
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(Mar 8, 2018) Danne
Just before springtime begins, it's time to bring the garden pots out of the shed and ready them for the coming planting.
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(Mar 8, 2018) Danne
Grape vines are deciduous perennials that need support for climbing and twining. Grape trellises are especially helpful. The vines can be trained and maintained very easily. Plus, grape provide delicious food, not only for humans, but for your beautiful backyard song birds!
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(Mar 8, 2018) Danne
Not only is herb gardening easy, it can be very satisfying, especially if you like delicious, fresh tasting food.
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(Jan 10, 2018) Dry Creek Garden Company
Like tomatoes, eggplants like a long summer of very warm sun. Once well established and growing big, you can stake eggplants to help support their sometimes large, heavy fruit. You can even cage them like tomatoes, but usually a single stake to support the main stem will suffice.
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From the 'About Us' page on the AHS Website:
Making America a nation of gardeners, a land of gardens. That's our vision. Ambitious? Sure, but we don't think it's impossible. It's what we've been doing for more than 90 years.
The AHS Website has gardening resources, gardening programs, youth gardening information, membership information and much more. All in all, the AHS Website is a fascinating place to visit with a ton of resources.
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This home brewing guide explains how to make homemade beer, and includes step-by-step instructions, equipment illustrations, beer recipes and a beer ingredient chart.
This article is from Mother Earth News, "The Original Guide to Living Wisely." The Website has sections on Organic Gardening, Homesteading, "Read Food," Natural Health, and a whole lot more.
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This Webpage provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Agricultural Library provides annotated links to societies and associations that offer information about home gardening.
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The NGA has been teaching people how to garden since 1971. The Website offers helpful tools, such as an online planting calendar, frost dates according to zipcode, and much more.
The organization offers a plant database with photographs and information on light and water requirements, etc.
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From the USDA Website:
The People’s Garden works across USDA and with partners to start and sustain school gardens, community gardens, urban farms, and small-scale agriculture projects in rural and urban areas with the mission of growing healthy food, people and communities. This work is accomplished through collaboration and volunteerism. It is named in honor of President Lincoln’s description of USDA as “The People’s Department.”
Thinning the Lettuce
Your Praying Mantis Friends
The Joy of Growing Pumpkins
Local "Backyard Orchards"
Get Your Pots Ready For Planting!
Find Room For Grape Vines!
An Essential Kitchen Extension
Growing Eggplant in the Desert