South Haven students plant vegetables in teaching garden

SOUTH HAVEN | South Haven Elementary School students got to dig into the dirt Tuesday afternoon.

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.

Smart Substitutions: Healthier ways to satisfy cravings

Here are some easy ways to make smart substitutions throughout the day that are also time-saving.

Grafted veggies are next season's celebrity seeds

In many of the seed catalogs arriving soon in mailboxes, the headliners will be grafted vegetables, in which one or more different varieties grow from a single rootstock. Tomatoes seem to be the grafted transplants most frequently offered, providing greater disease tolerance, bigger harvests…

Cook Now, Eat Later, Skip the Stress

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Growing Importance: Families share summer garden bounties for local food pantry cause

Caroline Shook, CEO of Housing Opportunities in Valparaiso, which runs the Porter County Food Pantry program, still remembers the box of "beautiful" freshly picked hot peppers donated one day last summer by a local gardener with a surplus.

Produce growers receive schooling on latest information in S'ville

Kris Parker, right, of Purdue University Extension Porter County, talks to vegetable growers Thursday during the Illiana Vegetable Growers' School at Teibel's Restaurant in Schererville.

Produce growers receive schooling on latest information in S'ville

Vegetable growers chat Thursday during the Illiana Vegetable Growers' School at Teibel's Restaurant in Schererville. Commercial vegetable growers and market farmers learned about pest management, production practices, variety selection and marketing.