This is the first post in a series about common gardening problems that focuses on mistakes that vegetable gardeners make without even recognizing that there is a problem. The series was originally published as part of my minicourse entitled Gardening Blunders.
Gardening Blunder: Planting the Garden in Rows
One blunder that many gardeners make is to arrange [...]

Chives are one of the easiest culinary herbs to grow in the home garden. A sign of just how easy they are to cultivate is provided by the fact that existing chive plants will readily self seed and produce new plants with no assistance at all from the gardener.
Planting and Growing Chives
Chive herb plants are also [...]

Outdoor Mushroom Growing is more of a challenge than using an indoor mushroom kit, but if you have the resources and a little patience they are worth the extra effort involved.
Inoculating hardwood logs with mushroom spawn will provide benefits that you can only achieve by growing the mushrooms outdoors.
Advantages of Growing Mushrooms on Logs
The biggest advantage [...]

Growing a Mushroom Kit is a simple indoor gardening project that you can enjoy at any time of the year.
Edible mushroom kits are growing more and more popular and can be obtained through various Internet or mail order sources.
Using Gourmet Mushroom Kits
Gourmet mushroom growing kits usually consist of a 12 by 12 inch square block [...]

Mache, also known as corn salad, rapunzel, field salad, or lamb’s lettuce is a little known salad green with a mild lettuce like flavor. This easily to cultivated vegetable can even be found growing wild in some areas.

Beginner gardeners often wonder; “What’s it all going to cost for me to create and grow my new vegetable garden?” I thought I’d summarize the bare minimum gardening expenses that a new gardener should budget for as they start and plant that first-time vegetable garden.

Tiller Rental… $45 Sure, double digging your new raised beds is an expense [...]

It’s been an extremely wet and dreary weekend here in Central Pennsylvania. I haven’t ventured out to the garden in a couple of weeks but I’m starting to imagine an early end of winter.
No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Groundhog Day or Punxsutawney Phil who lives just a couple of hours away in Northwest [...]

Kohlrabi is definitely a strange looking vegetable. It’s difficult to describe, so rather than try I’ll just attach a picture below. You’ll see what I mean; it looks like a baseball on a stem with leaves growing out of the top.
As unusual as kohlrabi looks, it’s very attractive and the purple color provides an ornamental accent to [...]