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If you’ve never grown eggplant before, perhaps you imagine bushy plants with enormous, dark-purple fruits hanging off them. While this is an accurate picture of what Solanum melongena may look like in the garden, the reality is that a variety of diverse cultivars exist. Some plants do grow larger fruits, but others produce aubergines the size of your finger. Looking at the plants themselves, some are tall, but others are small. And then there’s the somewhat surprising f

Rhubarb is a plant grown by braver gardeners who know the wonderful flavor of this unusual and often difficult to find plant. But, a new rhubarb grower may have questions like, “How to tell when rhubarb is ripe?” and “When to harvest rhubarb?” Keep reading to learn more about harvesting rhubarb. When to Harvest Rhubarb How to tell when rhubarb is ripe is as easy as walking out to the plant. To be honest, rhubarb is “ripe” all spring and summer. But for the health of the

Lettuce is one of our favorite garden greens because it is far superior—in both taste and vitamin A content—to the store-bought alternative! Plant in the spring, starting two weeks before frost. In fall, start sowing again six to eight weeks before your fall frost.  About Lettuce Lettuce is cool-season crop that grows best in the spring and fall in most regions. Its a great leafy green to grow because it grows quickly, produces fo

Everyone loves a summer chicken. But come February, when you’re schlepping food and water across the snowy yard, getting your PJs wet, cursing your kids who promised to help, and not getting any eggs for your trouble, the romance of the backyard chicken may start to wane. Enter Rent-a-Chicken. Leslie Suitor started the company in Traverse City, Michigan as a way to spare you from cold weather trauma. “We get hellacious winters up here,” she said. “Wh