Many home gardeners have grown their own sweet corn before, but have you ever thought of growing your own popcorn, or your own dent corn for grits or cornmeal? Depending on how much garden space you’re working with, all the different types of corn can be worth growing in your backyard...
beans, and squash, three crops that work together to make each other more productive. The corn provides a trellis for the beans, while the squash vines ramble along the ground shading out weeds, and the beans fix nitrogen, providing fertility...
I went toPortland Nurseryto “price out” grow lights and ended up just buying one 4-foot light there on the spot instead. I picked up the little trays and domes as well, but I hated to spend even more money on the pots. The folks over atYou Grow Girlhad posted somecool gift ideas...
I got both lessons from Don Tipping, a seed breeder and farmer who’s “been a samurai warrior for” some exceptionalAlliumvarieties, along with a number of other crops with names like River Spirit Rainbow flour corn, andAlive Vates kaleand‘Mideast Peace’ cucumber. Don spearheads theSiskiyou...
Pole beans require some form of support whether it’s a trellis, a fence, or a corn stalk. They can vary in height from six to 20 feet depending on the variety. Pole beans will mature over time as they continue to grow and set flowers and pods. Pole beans are preferred for green be...
The temperate zones are also the areas of thegrasses—the finest lawns particularly are in the regions of moderate or high rainfall—and of the greatcereal crops.Riceis excluded as being tropical, butwheat,barley,corn(maize), andryegrow well in the temperate zones. ...