Posts tagged with "vegetable gardening":

My earliest memory of eating a lemon cucumber is from when I was about 6 or 7 years old. It must have been August, because our family vegetable garden was at its peak, and the early evening was warm. My parents were away, and our neighbor Dori was babysitting. She took us out to the garden for dinner with a bowl of ranch salad dressing. Dori is a chef, so it was homemade and especially tasty. We just grazed around the garden, picking whatever vegetables we felt like eating, and dipping it in the...

From seed to harvest, tomatoes are included in my top ten favorite plants to grow. The seeds are easy to handle, and seedlings grow quickly with a high germination rate. All they ask of you is warm, fertile soil, the right amount of water, plenty of sun, and some sort of support structure to hold them relatively upright. There are so many different techniques for staking tomatoes; I have good success with the following method. Materials needed: 5 sturdy stakes per tomato, at least 5 feet tall...