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Growing Food
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Fig Trees for Small Backyards or Container Gardens
Figs may just be one of the best trees for edible landscapes and urban gardens. They are virtually pest free and thrive amid brick and concrete in containers or small spaces. Best of all, they produce delicious, sweet fruit!
By Robert Newgarden -
The Best Books About Growing Vegetables in Containers
There are loads of books about container gardening, but far fewer devoted to edible plants. Check out this small but useful list of some of the best resources.
By Rebecca Bullene -
Learn the Tricks of Foraging
Learning to identify and incorporate edibles like garlic mustard in your diet is a wonderful way to get in touch with the natural world.
By Michael Ratliff -
Save Your Vegetable Seeds
Saving seeds is a global effort of immense importance. But home gardeners should also institute this practice—not so much as an insurance policy against floods, famine, or doomsday, but as a way to save natural resources and money, and as a means to become more in tune with the life of the garden.
By Medi Blum -
Peppers from the Herb Garden
The peppers are popping in BBG's Herb Garden!
By Rebecca Bullene -
A Citrus Container Garden
This leafy low-maintenance container garden will keep citrus lovers happy all summer. Harvest the leaves for salads, teas, and cooking throughout the summer (they’re most aromatic just before the plants bloom), or dry them for later use.
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Resplendent Rhubarb
One of first vegetables of the season to produce a harvestable crop, rhubarb has a long and colorful history. We enjoy the tart and tasty species of rhubarb today in dishes such as Broiled Salmon with Garlic and Ginger Rhubarb Sauce (recipe included).
By Ann Lovejoy -
Who Needs Fruit?—Kaffre Lime
Thankfully there exists for lovers of indoor gardening and ethnic cooking a citrus whose foliage—and not the fruit—is the prime objective: the kaffre lime, Citrus hystrix.
By Scott D. Appell -
Kale: Delicious, Nutritious, and Easy to Grow
Kale is a healthy and delicious cool-season vegetable that produces well into fall. A diverse array beautiful and edible cultivars are available.
By Scott D. Appell -
A Blended Garden
A blended garden is one that weaves edible and ornamental plants in the same garden bed or container. There isn’t a strict line as to where the flower garden stops and the vegetable garden starts.
By Joan McDonald
