Marigolds: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Marigolds not only add a beautiful splash of color in the garden, but make a great companion plant for many vegetables.
Category: Growing Food
Nasturtiums: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Nasturtiums are not only a beautiful addition to your garden, but are a terrific companion plant for your vegetables. These flowers help to attract beneficial insects and repel bad ones like the cucumber beetle and white fly.
Celery: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Celery is known to be one of the most difficult vegetables to grow in your garden. It takes a long time, but the reward will be quite tasty!
Peas: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
You won’t be able to truly appreciate peas until you’ve had fresh Sugar Snap peas from the vine. These peas are extremely prolific and typically give us more than we can handle in a season. Because of the versatility of peas in cooking, everyone should be able to find a way to enjoy this vegetable!
Kohlrabi: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Kohlrabi is not only a super healthy vegetable, but it’s also easy to grow! Its unique look will add beauty to your garden as well.
Tomatoes (Indeterminate/Vining): How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Tomatoes are fun to grow and even more fun to eat! The wide usage of tomatoes makes this one of our favorite things to grow in the garden. Vining tomatoes (or indeterminate tomatoes) grow indefinitely until it freezes. Because of this, they require trellising on a tall support structure. Beware of the tomato hornworm, though. He is a fiesty fellow that can take out an entire tomato plant in a day!
Tomatoes (Determinate/Bush): How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Tomatoes are fun to grow and even more fun to eat! The wide usage of tomatoes makes this one of our favorite things to grow in the garden. Bush tomatoes (or determinate tomatoes) only grow to 3 or 4 feet tall, but they bush out and require caging. Beware of the tomato hornworm, though. He is a feisty fellow that can take out an entire tomato plant in a day!
Tomatillos: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Tomatillos are also called a husk tomato or green tomato due to their appearance. They have a dry, green cover outside of the fruit. These plants grow very similarly to its relative the tomato. If planting tomatillos, make sure to plant at least 2 plants so they can pollinate each other.
Bok Choy: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Bok Choy (also sometimes called Chinese Cabbage) is a cool weather vegetable that can be grown to harvest in spring and fall. It does not grow into a head and has beautiful large, dark green leaves.
Cauliflower: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Cauliflower isn’t something that we normally grow because it can be challenging, especially with our crazy Oklahoma weather conditions. If you’re up to the challenge, however, there’s nothing like home-grown cauliflower! Cabbage worms also love cauliflower, but they’re easy to manage.