I took the salesperson by surprise as I approached the garden center kiosk to pay for my plants. She had just bitten into her salad and the tomato in her mouth squirted a seed onto my flat of arugula.

I made a decision early in my food growing career: if I’m going to grow summer squash it will be gourmet varieties ONLY. Before you call me a vegetable snob, I’ll give you a great argument for this practice.

If your tomato support cage isn’t at least 6 feet tall, it’ll probably do a lousy job holding up your tomatoes. Most tomato cages are too short and you end up with a top-heavy plant that doubles over on itself. Grafted tomatoes, as well as all indeterminate type…

I mixed fresh grapefruit peel and flowering rosemary sprigs to make a delicious flavored water. It’s what’s fresh in my garden, so I put it to work for me.

When I was a beginner gardener, I made a lot of mistakes and spent too much money on products that were supposed to ensure success in the garden but didn’t. This was especially true with anything involving indoor plants or indoor gardening, particularly with starting seeds.