Did you know? Eggplants are botanically considered berries, like watermelon, blueberries, and tomatoes. Yet at the same time, they’re consi...

Radishes are one of the quickest and easiest veggies to grow indoors. In the garden, they also help keep the soil loose. In this blog, we’ll be tal...

A zucchini has more potassium than a banana! They are fairly recent to the US – bring brought over from Italy in the 1920s.   Timing Sprouts in ...

Vegetables have very high light needs – it’s likely that you’ll benefit from a grow light even if it’s just to supplement your sunshine. Fortunat...

It may come as a surprise, but many vegetables can grow well indoors. They need a bit more light and space than herbs or lettuce, but there’s produ...

A zucchini has more potassium than a banana! They are fairly recent to the US – bring brought over from Italy in the 1920s. Timing Sprouts in 1-...

Peppers range in heat from 0 Scoville Heat Units (Bell Pepper) to more than 2,000,000 SHU (Trinidad Moruga Scorpion) – so no matter what your taste...

Tomatillos go by many names, including Mexican green tomatoes (or tomate verde in Spanish), husk tomatoes and jamberries. The word tomatillo means ...

Tomatillos go by many names, including Mexican green tomatoes (or tomate verde in Spanish), husk tomatoes and jamberries. The word tomatillo means ...

The term “cool as a cucumber” actually comes from the cucumber’s ability to cool the temperature of the blood. It can also kill the bacteria that a...

In ancient Greece, brides carried bouquets of herbs and garlic, not flowers. Yummy and romantic. Timing Sprouts in 2-8 weeks. Harvest from Week ...

Ginger has a versatile history – ancient Chinese used the root of ginger as a tonic to treat common ailments while Romans used it to make sweets. ...

Freaky fact: Some ancient cults believed that souls traveled through the stems of bean plants on their way to be reincarnated into their next life ...

Freshly picked peas are loaded with natural sugars that quickly turn to starch – so if you haven’t had peas off the vine before, you’ve never exper...

Squash comes from the native American word “askutasquash”. Virtually, the entire plant is edible, meaning, the leaves, tendrils, shoots, stems, flo...

Before working their way into almost every type of cuisine – tomatoes were only found in South America.  Today, there are over 10,000 cultivated va...

In addition to light and care, vegetables need plenty of space, nutrients, and water. In order to give the plant the right supply of these things, ...

You tend a vegetable plant through its entire lifecycle; starting by seed, you’ll sprout, prune a tidy plant, pollinate flowers, feel for perfect r...

Last week we learned how to grow the sweetest red fruit (strawberries), and this week we’re covering another popular red fruit (yes, they are tec...