Vegetable Garden

Growing your own food is one of the coolest things you can do.

There is no doubt that it’s amazing to hold an egg and watch a chicken turn it into another chicken, but to me, it’s just as cool to plant a tiny seed and watch it turn in 50 pounds of zucchini!

I live in central New York, in zone 5b where we have WINTER and a relatively short growing season. Our frost-free time is from about Mother’s Day through the end of September.

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1 Vegetable Crops

2 Indoor Food Gardening

3 Unusual Garden Crops

4 Fall & Winter Gardening

5 Cooking Garden Fresh Produce

6 General Garden Advice

We have a lot of rain, a lot of humidity and usually, a few weeks in the 90’s just to make things fun.

As a rule, I’m a hands-off gardener, I can’t baby plants and I expect quite a bit of self-sufficiency from the garden. I’m also really bad at weeding and my gardens never look Pinterest ready.

Vegetable Crops

close up view of snow pea plant with dark background highlighting two bright green pea pods with text overlay "4 types of garden peas to plant this year"

dirt clinging to the lower roots of a pile of radishes on a wooden table with text overlay how to grow radishes and 5 reasons you need to grow them in your garden

carrots, beets and a parsnip with green on a cutting board with text overlay "how to grow and eat root vegetables"

clump of green garlic with roots and green sitting on garden soil with text overlay "how to grow, harvest, store & eat Green Garlic"

garlic scapes on a table, how to grow hardneck garlic

white pattypan squash on the vine with a smaller green pattypan squash and a large yellow squash blossom with text overlay "how to grow summer squash: varieties & planting tips"

close up shot of tomato plant with tiny sucker and text overlay "how and when to prune tomatoes & what to do with suckers"

Tomato Basil Container Garden

How to Grow Onions without Starting from Seed

Indoor Food Gardening

pea shoots under grow light in black tray with text overlay How to grow pea shoots

tipped over mason jar filled with green alfalfa sprouts, sprouts spilling onto a wooden cutting board with text overlay "how to grow sprouts for fresh food anytime"

Unusual Garden Crops

Every year I try to add at least one new thing to my vegetable garden that’s a little unusual.

Some might question the sanity of devoting months (or years) of my life to tasting something I’ve only read about in a book. Honestly, I question myself sometimes but that doesn’t change anything.