Grow Vegetables in Cold Climates
Vegetable gardening in Canada? Here are resources to help you grow more vegetables.
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Vegetable Crops
Looking for fruits, vegetables, and herbs that grow well in a shady garden. This article has partial-sun crop ideas for you.
Yes, you can grow this Mediterranean vegetable even if you're in a cold climate. This guide tells you what to do to harvest your own homegrown artichokes.
Want vegetable container crops that will grow well? Here are 12 crops that thrive in container gardens.
Edible perennials are perfect for an edible landscape! Find out which ornamental perennials are edible, and get ideas for perennial herbs and vegetables.
Lettuce bolting in hot weather? Here are 5 easy-to-grow and heat-tolerant salad greens to grow in hot weather. (Plus a delicious heat-loving garnish for your salad!)
25 storage crop ideas so you can plan a vegetable garden that supplies you with food year-round, even in cold climates, even if you don’t have a greenhouse.
Force rhubarb indoors and harvest tender, pink rhubarb mid-winter while the snow flies outdoors.
Articles: Plan and Design
Replace some of your bedding plants with edible plants! Find out how to choose suitable crops to use as bedding plants.
What’s your seed-shopping vocabulary like? Brush up on your seed lingo in this glossary of seed terminology so you can choose the best seeds for your needs.
Harvest more from the same space with these vertical-vegetable-garden ideas and vertical gardening crops.
Articles: How-to
Harvest more and water less when you grow in a wicking bed. Find out how to make a wicking bed.
Support those tomato plants! This guide tells you how to stake, trellis, train, and cage tomatoes so you can fit in more plants and get a great harvest.
A container vegetable garden is a good way to fit lots of vegetable crops into a small space. Find out how to get started.
The best way to solve the problem of spindly seedlings is to prevent them from getting that way in the first place. Find out how.
Find out how to ripen the green tomatoes that you still have in your garden, by picking them before the first frost, and bringing them indoors.
How to Blanch Celery, Cauliflower, and Other Vegetables. Blanching in the garden refers to covering up part of all of a plant to exclude light.