Small Packages
These compact lettuces are a bold mixture of nutty, sun-kissed flavors finishing with unexpected hints of freshly picked celery and crushed pepper. Maybe not...
Tree Selection: Meyer Lemon
There are an endless number of amazing trees to choose from if you're thinking of adding one to your garden, deck or front room. However,...
What to Plant: Red Veined Sorrel
Add red veined sorrel to your planting list. In fact, don't wait and plant it now.
The Best Kitchen Garden Edibles
The best kitchen garden edibles...
Scarlet Runner Beans
There's something incredibly fascinating about opening up a dazzling green bean pod to find shades of hot pink, lavender and red mottled seeds inside. ...
What to Plant Now: 6 Perfect Winter Veggies
Many of the foods we love are grown in extremes -- the edges and shifts of weather found with seasons. I've decided consistent, predictable...
The Best Tomato Varieties
With more than 10,000 tomato varieties to choose from, it can be difficult to know which ones are right for you. But the answer is...
10 Best Kitchen Garden Herbs
Imagine a garden that elevates everyday living, is a dose of medicine with every bite, and doubles as a pollinator haven. If you grow...
What to Plant Now
Take advantage of our warm fall weather. Warm days and nights mean warm soil temperatures — ideal for seed germination. And carrots can be...
How to Grow & Forage: Miner’s Lettuce
Miner’s lettuce is in full swing here in California, especially after a much awaited for rainy winter. It’s growing with a zeal I’ve not...
Planting Tomatoes | 10 Tips for Growing a Bumper Crop
Tomatoes are easy to love and easy to grow. Here are a few tips for planting them, getting you on your way to this...
Grow Your Own Microgreens
Yep. Even you can grow your own microgreens.
If pink is the new black then microgreens are the new kale. Packed with nutrition and gleaming...
What to Plant: How to Grow Chard
If you’re planning your spring garden, put Swiss chard on the list. It’s not only delicious and easy to grow, it’s a super food...
Greens for Small Spaces
Red and green leaf lettuce will always have a place at the table. So too will traditional romaine, but have you tried oak leaf...
Define Summer | Grow Tomatoes
Summer, if defined by the olfactory of senses, could have endless interpretations. Like "snow" for groups such as the circumpolar Sami people, it could...
6 Basil Varieties To Grow & Love
Grow these 6 basil varieties to change the way you cook and live.
As a gardener and cook, I’m always on the lookout for new...
Edible Weeds: Purslane the New, Easy to Grow Superfood
Is it a weed, or a superfood?
Make a little room for purslane to run wild in your garden or plant it with purpose, growing...
What to Plant: Planning for Spring
Like you, I have a list of plants that already have dibs in the garden this coming season. They’re the plants that either out-performed...
12 Edible Plants That Give More Than They Need
Plants that sip and don't suck? Water is a hot topic. States are competing over water rights, drought in the west continues and growing...
Grow Your Own Cucamelons
Adorable. It's the first word that comes to mind when discovering Cucamelons. Adorable with a capital "A." No wonder it's also known as Mouse Melon. Yet...
How to Grow Potatoes in a Bag
I love the idea of growing more in less space. Especially if I spend little to no money and glean the benefits of homegrown...
