Seeds Ideas, Tips & Guides

How to Grow Swiss Chard for Fall Harvests

BFFs and Enemies: The Best and Worst Cucumber Companion Plants

How to Plant and Grow Pole Beans Phaseolus vulgaris

33 of the Best Melon Varieties

How to Plant and Grow Swiss Chard Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, (Cicla andFlavescens Groups)

Tips for Growing ‘Dwarf Grey’ Snow Peas Pisum sativum ‘Dwarf Grey’

19 of the Best Pansy Varieties to Grow at Home

How to Plant and Grow Bush Beans Phaseolus vulgaris

What Month Should You Sow Kale?

Gardening at Home: 31 of the Best Kits to Get Started

5 Tips You Need to Navigate Seed Catalogs

How to Grow and Care for Candle Anemones Anemone cylindrica

Your Ultimate Guide to Square Foot Gardening

How to Plant and Grow Signet Marigolds Tagetes tenuifolia

How to Plant and Grow Beets Beta vulgaris

How to Plant and Grow Scallions Allium fistulosum and other Allium species

31 of the Best Companion Plants for Beans

How to Plant and Grow Kohlrabi Brassica oleracea var.gongylodes

Tips for Growing Golden Beets Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris

15 of the Best Cover Crops for the Home Garden

How to Plant, Grow, and Harvest Dill Weed and Seed Anethum graveolens

How to Plant and Grow Spinach Spinacia oleracea

How to Grow Buttercrunch Lettuce Lactuca sativa ‘Buttercrunch’

How to Plant and Grow Watercress Nasturtium officinale

How to Grow Sugar Beets for Food and Fodder Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. altissima

How to Grow Beardtongue (Penstemon) Penstemon spp.

How to Grow and Care for Heavenly Bamboo Nandina domestica

Planting Your First Vegetable Garden: A Beginner’s Guide

How to Plant and Grow Fava Beans Vicia faba

How to Grow Eggplant in Containers

How to Plant Kohlrabi Seeds

These assassins of the plant kingdom are so toxic that a nibble can be the last thing you taste! This article will help you identify and steer clear of fatal flowers that can even kill a human.

How to Propagate Succulents from Seed in 9 Easy Steps

There is so much material to choose from in the garden and there have been more than a few warming Monday vases of late, but I particularly wanted to include a couple of seed successes whilst the opportunity was still there. I have grown gomphrena from seed before, but with minimal success, so this year’s three plants (right) were par for the course, each bearing a single bloom. Although supposedly mixed colours, the only variety I could find at the time, all three are this fiery orangey-red. Emilia javanica ‘Irish Poet’ (left) is new to me and has been very much an eyecatcher since early June, with its tiny fluffy orange blooms. I shall certainly grow it again.

Saturday has come around again ridiculously quickly, meaning it is time for another contribution to Jim’s weekly meme at Garden Ruminations; also coming round quickly is a new month, with an end-of-month post noticeably lacking…hey ho!

Learning when to harvest cantaloupe is one of the easiest skills for a gardener to develop. The indicators of smell and changes in skin appearance let you know that your delicious homegrown melons are nearly ready. When the cantaloupe slides right off the vine, you’ve found the definitive indicator of ripeness. In this article, you will learn the tell-tale signs of ripe fruit and true indicators of when to harvest cantaloupe. This information will set you up to have the best growing season with this rewarding crop. Meet this melon In North America, what we call cantaloupe or muskmelon (Cucumis melo var. reticulatus) is diffe