Gardening How-to Articles

Figs may just be one of the best trees for edible landscapes and urban gardens. They are virtually pest free and thrive amid brick and concrete in containers or small spaces. Best of all, they produce delicious, sweet fruit! Read › Fig Trees for Small Backyards or Container Gardens

There are loads of books about container gardening, but far fewer devoted to edible plants. Check out this small but useful list of some of the best resources. Read › The Best Books About Growing Vegetables in Containers

Saving seeds is a global effort of immense importance. But home gardeners should also institute this practice—not so much as an insurance policy against floods, famine, or doomsday, but as a way to save natural resources and money, and as a means to become more in tune with the life of the garden. Read › Save Your Vegetable Seeds

This leafy low-maintenance container garden will keep citrus lovers happy all summer. Harvest the leaves for salads, teas, and cooking throughout the summer (they’re most aromatic just before the plants bloom), or dry them for later use. Read › A Citrus Container Garden

One of first vegetables of the season to produce a harvestable crop, rhubarb has a long and colorful history. We enjoy the tart and tasty species of rhubarb today in dishes such as Broiled Salmon with Garlic and Ginger Rhubarb Sauce (recipe included). Read › Resplendent Rhubarb

Thankfully there exists for lovers of indoor gardening and ethnic cooking a citrus whose foliage—and not the fruit—is the prime objective: the kaffre lime, Citrus hystrix. Read › Who Needs Fruit?—Kaffre Lime

Kale is a healthy and delicious cool-season vegetable that produces well into fall. A diverse array beautiful and edible cultivars are available. Read › Kale: Delicious, Nutritious, and Easy to Grow

A blended garden is one that weaves edible and ornamental plants in the same garden bed or container. There isn’t a strict line as to where the flower garden stops and the vegetable garden starts. Read › A Blended Garden

Longing to visit Provence, that beautiful and charming region in the south of France, to bask in its warm sunlight, taste its delicious cuisine, and see the sloping vineyards and colorful scenery that charmed Cezanne and Van Gogh? Well, you can capture some of the ambience of Provence by growing its famous culinary herbs in your garden. Read › Herbes de Provence: An Elegant, Potted-Garden Design

One of our prettiest and earliest-blooming wildflowers—spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)—is also a delicious vegetable. Read › Spring Beauty—A Woodland Wildflower With Tasty Tubers