Edible

Learn all about edible gardening to improve your health, save on groceries, and reconnect with nature. Our detailed guides show you how to grow food!

corn raised beds. Corn plants feature tall, sturdy stems topped with large, lance-shaped leaves arranged alternately along the stalk, creating a lush, green canopy on a wooden raised bed in the garden.

Vegetables

How to Grow Corn in Raised Beds: A Complete Guide

You don’t need a ton of space to grow corn. This classic summer crop is shallow-rooted and easy to cultivate. Garden expert and former organic farmer Logan Hailey explains how to grow corn in raised beds for delectable sweet cobs or rainbow-hued popcorn.

A close-up of strawberry plants on a farm, featuring vibrant green leaves and branches, shows a mix of ripe red strawberries ready for picking and smaller unripe green strawberries still growing.

Fruits

11 Strawberry-Growing Mistakes to Avoid This Year

If you crave sweet homegrown berries but your strawberry plants have underperformed in the past, a few tweaks to your growing methods could tremendously improve yields. Strawberry expert and former organic farmer Logan Hailey explains the most common strawberry-growing mistakes and how to avoid them this season.

remove strawberry runners. Close-up of female hands adorned with orange gloves, delicately pruning strawberry runners in a sunlit garden bed.

Fruits

7 Benefits of Removing Strawberry Runners

If you want to eat loads of berries this summer, you may need to do some pruning. Strawberry runners suck a lot of energy away from your plants, but former organic farmer Logan Hailey has expert info on why and how you can remove them for higher yields.

native edible plants. Close-up of a flowering Purple Passionflower plant, Passiflora incarnata, in a garden. Its palmate leaves, dark green and deeply lobed, serve as a backdrop for the stunning flowers. Each bloom boasts radial arrays of filaments surrounding a central fringed corona, exhibiting shades of purple and lavender, accented with delicate streaks and spots of contrasting hues. The fruit features a smooth, tough rind of green color.

Edible

21 Edible Native Plants: Growing a Native Food Garden

Do you enjoy both native plants and growing food crops? Did you know there are many beautiful native plants that you can also eat? In this article, gardening expert Liessa Bowen introduces 21 fantastic native plants that have edible parts so you can grow a beautiful landscape and eat it, too.

A Yellow Long Neck fig branch, adorned with ripe yellow figs and lobed leaves, fills the foreground. Behind it, the sky wears a cloak of clouds, lending a serene backdrop to the natural beauty of the scene.

Fruits

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Yellow Long Neck Figs

Are you looking for the perfect fig for your garden? The ‘Yellow Long Neck’ fig is just one of many fig cultivars that are ideal for a garden and landscape setting. In this article, gardening expert Liessa Bowen introduces ‘Yellow Long Neck’ figs and how you can grow your own delicious fruits!