Impatient? Tips for a quicker vegetable harvest

Vegetable gardening is an exercise in patience. Sweet potatoes can take more than 100 days to ripen; some tomato and watermelon varieties require five months.

Impatient? Tips for a quicker vegetable harvest

Vegetable gardening is an exercise in patience. Sweet potatoes can take more than 100 days to ripen; some tomato and watermelon varieties require five months.

Family Meals Matter: Celebrate summer squash

Since summer squash varieties such as zucchini, yellow crookneck and patty pan squash must be eaten quickly, it's essential to have an arsenal of squash recipes at hand.

Herbal Healer: What is eggplant?

Eggplant

Every heirloom vegetable comes with a story. Maybe that’s why more gardeners are seeking out these time-tested survivors and championing their cause.

Many gardeners have heard the story of the Three Sisters. It describes an old growing method practiced by Native Americans, who planted corn, beans and squash together to support one another and grow a bounty of vegetables with minimal water or external supports. The tall corn stalks support…

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