The Garden for Eatin'--for Practical Vegetable Gardening

It's the end of the season for vegetable gardening and about time to button up the garden until spring. We still have some green tomatoe...

This fall centerpiece is made of a pumpkin from our garden and pumpkins-on-a-stick grown from seeds our daughter collected last year from an...

My DH planted rye last week in the garden. It will winter over and grow again in the spring. He will turn it under next spring to add nitrog...

You know how much work it is to dig up potatoes, then bend over to pick up the harvest. My DH has solved the problem and made it a lot of fu...

My DH picked all the ears of sweet corn from our patch and pulled up the stalks. The garden looks so different without those stately plantin...

Yes, we are still battling slugs, those voracious creatures that look like shell-less snails. Read my post  Grudge Against Slugs, June 15. ...

The excitement in the air, the buzz in the fair goers, the delicious aroma of kettle corn and elephant ears...It must be county fair time! ...

Hooray! It's finally that time of year when sweet corn grows abundantly. If you can't eat all your harvest right now, freeze sweet c...