Growing Vegetables
Learn all about growing vegetables from seed with our gardening resources. We’ll give you the lowdown on planting times, soil composition, pest prevention, and everything else you’ll need to create a bountiful vegetable garden. Please also see our grow guides for more detailed instructions on growing individual plants from seed.
Growing Herbs and Winter Garden Vegetables
Admittedly, we write a lot about gardening in the northeast, which makes sense when you consider that we’re located in upstate New York (generally zone 4-5, depending on the elevation). However, we recognize that many of our customers are fortunate enough to live in...
Help! My Lettuce is Bolting. What to Do?
Newly minted (ha! Get it?) vegetable gardeners can be taken by surprise when their beautiful lettuce plants they’ve been enjoying since the beginning of the season start sending up flower stalks all of the sudden, and go to seed. When this happens, the heretofore...
How to Grow Eggplants
Grow your own eggplant from seed and create delicious culinary favorites such as Eggplant Parmigiana. Our featured eggplant variety: Black Beauty AboutInteresting FactsGardening TipsHarvestingHighlights About Eggplants The mention of the word, eggplant, often brings...
How to Grow Cantaloupe
Our seed variety—Hale’s Best—is a 1923 Heirloom and is one of the best known, sweetest, and most productive of cantaloupe varieties. Our featured cantaloupe variety: Hale’s Best Seed AboutInteresting FactsGardening TipsHarvestingHighlights Cantaloupe: The...