How to tie in your plants

Harvesting asparagus is worth the wait, and wait you must if you have started a new asparagus bed from seed or crowns. The delectable spears are not of edible quality until the fourth year after planting seeds. Asparagus harvesting then becomes more worthwhile each year. Planting asparagus from seed allows one to grow any variety of the vegetable, but growing from one year old crowns allows for harvesting asparagus more quickly– three years after planting crowns. L

Easy to grow and hardy, garden-grown cabbage is a nutritious and rewarding gardening project. Growing cabbage is fairly easy because it’s a robust vegetable that isn’t too fussy. Knowing when to plant cabbage and the conditions it likes best will reward you with an amazing vegetable that is great in salads, stir-fry, sauerkraut and countless other recipes. Cabbage Plant Info Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) grows well in fertile soil and likes sun or part

If you reside in the American South, you may already be familiar with growing cushaw squash. An heirloom crookneck squash from the family Cucurbitaceae, cushaw squash plants have a number of benefits over other winter squash varieties. So how to grow cushaw squash plants and what other interesting information can we dig up? Cushaw Squash Plant Info Cushaw (Cucurbita argyrosperma) hails from the Caribbean and, thus, tolerates humid conditions. This squash is a green strip

The pandemic helped many of us discover that tending to a small cohort of houseplants is an ideal activity to ease the burden of isolation. If you weren’t a proud plant parent before 2020, chances are that being confined to your home inspired you to become one.   If you’ve decided you’re in plant parenthood for the long haul, and you want to try taking care of something a bit different, you might want to consider air plants.  These plants, otherwise known as Tillandsia, don