Below is a chart showing describing the plants and timing to grow your own thanksgiving in your area. Please note that the varieties make a difference; the selected varieties have a time to harvest that works in the growing window. Click on the plant for complete growing instructions for that plant. Click on the plant […]

Below is a chart showing describing the plants and timing to grow your own thanksgiving in your area. Please note that the varieties make a difference; the selected varieties have a time to harvest that works in the growing window. Click on the plant for complete growing instructions for that plant. Click on the plant […]

Proud gardeners with pumpkins in their patch are eyeing their almost-but-not-quite-ripe pumpkins with anticipation. Here are four tips to make harvesting go smoothly: Pumpkin plants usually have prickly leaves or stems. Wear gloves or protective clothing to avoid irritating your skin when working with your plants, handling the stems, or harvesting the pumpkin fruits. Use […]

Late in the growing season, gardeners can be unclear as to how to manage pumpkin fruits. Here are some growing tips to help gardeners maximize the quality of pumpkin fruits and determine when pumpkins are ready for harvest. Late Season Growing Tips. GardenZeus recommends removing blooms and new fruits that appear late in the growing […]

Many gardeners are familiar with radish as a quick and easy cool season vegetable to grow in the garden. They may not think of growing radishes as a sustainable gardening practice that will improve soil. Try using fodder radishes and daikons as a cover crop, or to break up the top layers of compacted soils […]

Detroit Dark Red is a reliable, versatile, heat-tolerant, longtime favorite heirloom variety that can be harvested both when small for baby beets or when fully mature for medium-to-large red globe roots. It sprouts well during cool to cold weather. Other recommended varieties include Ruby Queen, a youngish heirloom introduced in 1957 that produces uniform, tender, […]

Arugula is available in a surprising range of appearance, degree of spiciness, flavor, texture, and other characteristics. It is an ideal vegetable for the cool season Mediterranean Garden. Generally “common” or “salad” strains are milder in flavor with rounded and paler leaves; while “wild” strains are often spicier with longer, thinner, deeply lobed leaves that […]

Chard is a relatively easy vegetable that offers abundant yields, and is one of the most consistently productive greens during warm weather. It an ideal fall vegetable for Mediterranean gardens. In general, green-leafed, white-stalked chard varieties produce greater yields, are more heat-tolerant, and resist bolting longer than the red and multi-colored varieties. Fordhook Giant is […]

With the arrival of September, gardeners in many areas of the country are thinking about harvesting their last summer crops and storing their tools for the winter. But in many areas of California, September marks the beginning of cool-season gardening, a season when the soil is still warm and the air has cooled–ideal growing conditions […]