Vegetable and Food Gardens with Black Gold

Get inspired with smart tips for growing your own food. Whether you are a first-time vegetable gardener or homesteader, these pins will inspire you. #food #gardening #kitchengarden #vegetable #garden #organic #foodnotlawns
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Easy-To-Grow Garden Tomatoes
Fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) are a seasonal delicacy every gardener should try to grow at home. Thirty-five years of tomato growing have taught me the effortless tomato varieties versus the more finicky, less productive types.
The Cult of Extreme Heat: Raising the Hottest Peppers
Hot peppers have a cult following. Those that eat, hybridize, and grow the hottest peppers in the world are all part of the wicked hot-pepper culture where Scoville Units below 1,000,000 are too cool to be cool. Breeders and growers choose only the most dangerously scorching Capsicum fruits on the planet. Each year, newer, hotter peppers appear in the pursuit of extreme heat. #hot #peppers #hottest #garden #vegetable #growing #grow #how-to
The 10 Best-Tasting Cherry Tomatoes for Home Growing
Cherry tomatoes are garden candy. We grow several new varieties each year for snacking and salads, but some we return to for amazing flavor and sweetness. These cherries comprise our top 10 list. #best #cherry #tomatoes #tasting #top #10 #favorite #performing #garden #vegetable #gardening #jessiekeith #video
10 Essential Tips for New Vegetable Gardeners
With decades of vegetable gardening experience under my belt, it’s easy to take the years of knowledge for granted. It’s like riding a bike. I garden on cruise control and react or learn quickly when faced with a new challenge. In turn, years of teaching new gardeners have kept me in touch with the challenges they face. #vegetablegarden #garden #gardening #organic #howto #diy #beginner
Best New Herbs and Vegetables for 2021
2020 was quite a year–with more downs than ups for most of us. One bright spot was the big boost in gardening nationwide. New gardeners arose from every corner of the country, trying their hand at raising their own vegetables, flowers, herbs, and house plants. It’s equally bright that this year offers no shortage of new and exciting herbs and vegetables. #2021 #new #vegetables #herbs #garden #gardening #organic
10 Essential Tips For New Vegetable Gardeners
Years of teaching new gardeners have kept me in touch with the challenges they face. Sound, step-by-step advice is invaluable–potentially averting years of mistakes and poor yields. Getting the big picture of a new garden venture from the start will set the wheelbarrow rolling in the right direction. #new #novice #beginner #vegetable #garden #starting #start #steps #success
Five Steps to Creating a No-Till Vegetable Garden
To till or not to till? Why ask this question? Tilling does good things for the soil. It increases needed aeration and porosity, allows the easy incorporation of organic amendments, and it makes all the little green weeds at the top of the soil go away. #no #till #vegetable #garden #gardening #how-to #diy
Growing and Taming Jerusalem Artichoke
#Jerusalem #artichokes have a nutty, #potato-like taste and can be eaten #roasted, boiled, or in soups. But the huge #sunflowers spread and need to be tamed. When planted in ironclad raised beds, they will stay put for good #fall #eating.
Spring to Fall Vegetable Rotation Planting for Non-stop Garden Produce
Vegetable gardening is a dynamic process. Gardeners have to shift from cool-season spring vegetables to warm-season summer vegetables back to cool-weather crops. In between, savvy gardeners rotate their crops to maximize their output and health. #vegetable #garden #crop #rotation #summer #fall #spring #gardening
Purple Vegetables for Color and Nutrition
In vegetable gardens, purple is currently the height of fashion. From kale to kohlrabi, vegetables and herbs with purple leaves, fruits and flowers can add interest to your edible array. Whether you have a formal potager, a raised vegetable garden, or multiple containers, adding purple—either a little or a lot—brings you to the glowing intersection of beauty and nutrition. #purple #vegetables #herbs #organic #nutrition
15+ Purple Vegetables to Grow in Your Superfood Garden
Purple vegetables are rich in anthocyanins, an antioxidant that gives the red, blue, and purple pigment to plants. Anthocyanins are known to fight free radical damage at the cellular level, offering antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer benefits. G
Lessons from Wartime Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens inspired millions of Americans that had never gardened to grow food to feed their families. Everyday people learned to garden on a homesteading scale. And, my family was no exception. #Victory #garden #gardens #wartime #homesteading #family #gardening #sustenance
Planning a Sustenance Vegetable Garden
A well-planned #vegetable #garden will #sustain your #family with a variety of #fresh #produce from spring to late fall. Serious gardeners will even cold-frame garden into the winter months for a steady stream of fresh greens and root vegetables. Sustenance vegetable gardens save money and ensure produce is #organically #grown. Careful #planning and timing are essential for season-long garden-fresh produce for eating, canning, freezing, and drying.