It’s December and we’re still harvesting lettuce and kale from the garden. The salad greens are growing in a bed that is covered with a wood-framed chicken wire structure I built to protect the ...

Heads of fresh lettuce grow in rows in a backyard garden. - Shine Like Stars/Shutterstock Did you know lettuce can give you multiple harvests? It all comes down to how you cut it. Lettuce — such as ...

EARLY JUNE USUALLY signals the beginning of the summer garden harvest season. You might already be flush with salad greens and snap peas, with many more crops just around the corner. This presents a ...

A question that often comes up for new gardeners is when to harvest a particular vegetable. The answer is for some things it’s easy. For others, it's not. Tomatoes change from green to red (or yellow, ...

August is a prime month for cashing in on that vegetable bounty you’ve worked so hard and watered so much to produce. (If you haven’t been watering, there’s probably not much to harvest.) Some crops ...

This was written about summer lettuce, but the information can be applied to winter lettuce too! Remember: This was all done in pots! The article below is reprinted with permission. 1. Harvest the ...

As spring gives way to the lazy days of summer, we can hardly wait to savor that first juicy tomato from the garden. Most backyard gardeners know what, when and how to plant our favorite veggies, but ...

Last month, after returning home from three weeks in Europe, I discovered my new cold frame still contained fresh green beans ripe for the picking. I wrote a column about it — never having had the ...