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Canning tomatoes, digging potatoes, ignoring the weeds, harvesting the seed-the fall garden. It's a full and busy time of enjoying the fruits of your summer labors. One is full of […]

A chef shares how he came to appreciate vegetables through vegetable gardening. Freshly picked vegetables were observed to be very different from the ones served in the market, and are found the cook's best assets. Recipes for vegetables and fruits are also given.

Even though I never grew up with a garden, growing and harvesting my own produce was a lifelong dream of mine. When I was younger, I remember a story someone [...]

The spiritual, personal and abstract joys of garlic's 7-9 month growing cycle are celebrated.

Three master chefs from Manhattan have created their own vegetable garden in Long Island, NY, which supplies fresh ingredients for their restaurants and serves as a place to get together on Sundays. Recipes for a dinner for six are included.

We asked what vegetable crops you like to grow, recommended varieties and seed companies, and what tricks you use to grow them. Here are your replies: Tomatoes are versatile, abundant, […]

It's 50 degrees and raining, the woodstove has come out of summer hibernation and is nursing a fire made with too green wood, the cats are sleeping (as befits the […]

MY KITCHEN GARDEN is about as far from a beautifully tended French potager as Paris is distant from the Rio Grande. In 1977, when my husband, Fred, and I moved [...]

A reader tests 10 tips offered by Organic Gardening for growing better-tasting and more prolific tomatoes. He grew them from seed indoors, starting in January and gave the seedlings special care. He rates which varieties gave the best yield and which had the best tasting tomatoes.

The French kitchen garden, known as a potager, need not be large. The idea is to simultaneously be harvesting and planting for the next season, so that fresh vegetables are always available. A cookbook author shares her gardening tips.

'The great thing about volunteer potatoes is that you can start harvesting them in June. So I've harvested a few pounds already, and I must say the quality is quite [...]

Byline: Tagore, Kelly When Stephen and Linda Taylor prepare vegetables, the journey from earth to plate is short. That's because they've brought their table into the garden-and their kitchen and […]

What do you do when you run out of freezer space, canning jars and appetite, and still have mountains of produce? Oh, you found more zucchini. I just picked these [...]

Once, while doing a little weeding behind my house in Connecticut, I was momentarily overtaken by a vision of a miniature version of the celebrated kitchen garden at Chateau de […]

IF YOU OR I WERE TO GROW a plant that bore 60 pounds of tomatoes, we'd be justly proud. But Charles Wilber of Crane Hill, Alabama, would consider that performance [...]

'OUR TASTES greatly alter,' pronounced Doctor Johnson. 'The lad' (he went on) 'does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's [...]

'This year I got the idea to plant broccoli in October in big containers and just let the head flower and go to seed. Believe it or not, my bees [...]

I am a teacher at a K-through-12 school in Bangkok, and in the past year we have transformed our concrete rooftop into a thriving vegetable garden. The rooftop garden gives [...]

COUNTRYSIDE: I was cleaning up the garden and under the tomato vines I found two large ... I didn't know what they were. I had a couple of friends over, [...]

The editor's garden received heavy rain in summer 1996, which hurt his potatoes but helped many other crops. Tomatoes grew quickly but died after one harvest. Bell peppers, zucchini and lemon balm, which really works as a mosquito repellant, grew wild. His roses seemed to grow normally.

The process of expanding a home garden is humorously recounted. The process involved hauling huge amounts of aged mushroom soil and building new raised beds using recycled wood. The garden contains numerous varieties of tomatoes, green beans, potatoes, lettuce, corn, carrots and much more.

During The Year Was A Regular On The television show "Cheers," the closest Dr. Frasier Crane came to the world of gardening was when his wife, Lilith, left him to […]

I have grown gardens since I was a kid, and I got way more fresh produce out of an 8-by-20-foot area than my family could use. After the harvest, I [...]