There is nothing more satisfying for a vegetable gardener in mid-July than tossing together a salad for dinner with ingredients harvested just outside your back door. While cucumber, squashes, and the ...

For more than two decades, Nadia has been a copywriter, editor, and translator for digital and print in a variety of industries. Her passions and areas of expertise are food and gardening. She has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have only grown vegetables in another state, you should know that it’s different here. While summer is a good time to plant ...

Many gardeners never think about growing vegetables indoors. But with the right balance of light, water, and warmth, you can grow lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and many other food crops inside ...

As food prices continue to rise faster than the general rate of inflation, growing your own looks more and more appealing. Often food prices take a quick jump due to things that are beyond the control ...

Want to start harvesting fresh vegetables weeks before your neighbors? These essential spring vegetables will jumpstart your growing season and provide the first tastes of garden-fresh produce while ...

Here in southeastern Michigan, we have just about enough time for a fall crop of leaf lettuce. About four weeks from the average first frost of autumn is a good approximation of the last chance to ...

Did you know lettuce can give you multiple harvests? It all comes down to how you cut it. Lettuce — such as romaine, butterhead, and even arugula — can regrow multiple times if you cut it the right ...

We can grow some of our food inside our house here in winter. Lettuce and other greens are a good place to start. Some vegetables need the blazing hot sun of Michigan’s summer to produce nice food. A ...