Herb Garden curator Caleb Leech harvested potatoes this morning for donation a local food pantry. The artichokes are also ready to pick, and cardoons (a close relative) will soon follow. Read Summer Harvest
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Summer Harvest
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Growing FoodPlant ChoicesUrban Gardening
Roots Growing Through the Pot?
Help. I bought some potted herbs with the intention of planting them in my window box. I temporarily set the pots in the box thinking I’d plant them later, but then I never got around to it. Read Roots Growing Through the Pot?
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Growing FoodPlant ChoicesUrban Gardening
Fig Trees for Small Backyards or Container Gardens
Figs may just be one of the best trees for edible landscapes and urban gardens. They are virtually pest free and thrive amid brick and concrete in containers or small spaces. Best of all, they produce delicious, sweet fruit! Read Fig Trees for Small Backyards or Container Gardens
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Growing Food
The Best Books About Growing Vegetables in Containers
There are loads of books about container gardening, but far fewer devoted to edible plants. Check out this small but useful list of some of the best resources. Read The Best Books About Growing Vegetables in Containers
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Growing Food
Learn the Tricks of Foraging
Learning to identify and incorporate edibles like garlic mustard in your diet is a wonderful way to get in touch with the natural world. Read Learn the Tricks of Foraging
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Growing FoodSustainable Gardening
Save Your Vegetable Seeds
Saving seeds is a global effort of immense importance. But home gardeners should also institute this practice—not so much as an insurance policy against floods, famine, or doomsday, but as a way to save natural resources and money, and as a means to become more in tune with the life of the garden. Read Save Your Vegetable Seeds
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Peppers from the Herb Garden
The peppers are popping in BBG's Herb Garden! Read Peppers from the Herb Garden
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Growing Food
A Citrus Container Garden
This leafy low-maintenance container garden will keep citrus lovers happy all summer. Harvest the leaves for salads, teas, and cooking throughout the summer (they’re most aromatic just before the plants bloom), or dry them for later use. Read A Citrus Container Garden
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Growing FoodPlant Choices
Resplendent Rhubarb
One of first vegetables of the season to produce a harvestable crop, rhubarb has a long and colorful history. We enjoy the tart and tasty species of rhubarb today in dishes such as Broiled Salmon with Garlic and Ginger Rhubarb Sauce (recipe included). Read Resplendent Rhubarb
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Growing FoodPlant Choices
Who Needs Fruit?—Kaffre Lime
Thankfully there exists for lovers of indoor gardening and ethnic cooking a citrus whose foliage—and not the fruit—is the prime objective: the kaffre lime, Citrus hystrix. Read Who Needs Fruit?—Kaffre Lime