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When is Corn Ready to Pick?

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 2010

How can you tell when your corn is ripe to harvest? First, look at the top ear on your corn plant. The top ear is always the first to ripen.

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Video: Early Pruning of Tomato Plants

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 20102 comments

Tomatoes are surprisingly easy to maintain. Once your young tomato plants start to grow, they will need some initial pruning. Here's how to ensure that your plants remain healthy and produce delicious fruit.

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Video: How to Prune Tomatoes

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 20102 comments

Lee Reich, author of "The Pruning Book," shows you how to prune a tomato plant to keep it healthy and producing better fruit.

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Creative Ways to Use Stuffing Tomatoes

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | March 1st, 2010

Beyond rice, onions, and ground meat...

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Video: How to Test Soil in Your Vegetable Garden

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 2010

One of the most important steps you can take in starting a vegetable garden is to make sure you have good soil. But you can't tell what condition your soil is in just by looking at it. That's where...

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Video: Composting Made Easy

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 20104 comments

Jodie Colon, Compost Educator at Bronx Green-Up, shows you how to mix dead, dry leaves and stems, fresh moist green plant materials, and food scraps in a compost heap.

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Video: How to Plant Tomatoes

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 2010

Tomatoes like to be planted very deeply. Deep planting helps to ensure that your plants will grow to be healthy and robust.If your plant came in a peat pot, make sure you remove all of the pot before...

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Video: How to Grow Potatoes in Containers

Vegetable Gardener, editor | February 11th, 20106 comments

What's not to love about potatoes? They're tasty, require little maintenance to grow, and even produce pretty flowers. If you have the right container, you don't even need to plant them in the ground. Check out this video on growing potatoes in the most unlikely of places: a kitchen garbage can.

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Video: How to Freeze Herbs

Vegetable Gardener, editor | December 27th, 20091 comment

All you need to freeze herbs is a food processor or a mortar and pestle and the oil of your choice. In this video, culinary herbalist Susan Belsinger demonstrates her technique for freezing herbs.

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Video: How to Harvest Annual Herbs

Vegetable Gardener, editor | December 1st, 20091 comment

Regular pruning of annual herbs encourages new growth and maximizes leaf yield. Watch this video to learn how to get the best yield from your herbs.

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Video: How to Dry Herbs

Vegetable Gardener, editor | December 1st, 2009

Culinary herbalist Susan Belsinger demonstrates her expert technique for harvesting and preserving herb by either hanging or laying them in baskets or on screens.

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How to Grow Heading Lettuce

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | November 11th, 2009

Crisp and crunchy or buttery and tender, heading varieties of lettuce have lots to offer. Expert lettuce grower Renee Shepherd shares her expertise.

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Grow Lettuce from Seed

Ruth Dobsevage, editor | November 11th, 20093 comments

There are many, many lettuces to choose from, way beyond what you can buy at the grocery. And here's good news: the "exotic" varieties are way easier to grow, and way more nutritious and colorful, than that old standby, iceberg.

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Cut-and-Come-Again Lettuce Sampler

KitchenGardener Magazine, archive | November 11th, 20092 comments

A whole palette of colorful varieties delivers a leafy feast.

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Video: How to Plant and Grow Garlic

Vegetable Gardener, editor | November 10th, 2009

There is nothing like the taste of homegrown garlic and it is ridiculously easy to grow. Farmer Joe Smith of Niantic, Connecticut, gives you expert tips on how to plant and grow this kitchen staple.

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Video: Make a Flower Salad

susan belsinger, contributor | May 16th, 2009

Many flowers are as delicious as they are beautiful. In this video, culinary herbalist Susan Belsinger makes a gorgeous flower salad.

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Video: Strawberries Are a Great Alternative to a Lawn

TheGardenGirl, | April 23rd, 2009

Strawberries make a great ground cover that is easy to grow and produces a luscious fruit that goes great with almost any meal.

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Video: Vertical Gardening

TheGardenGirl, | April 17th, 2009

Maximize your growing space!

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Video: My Almost Record Tomato

TheGardenGirl, | April 12th, 2009

Want to see the biggest tomato I've grown to date? In this video I clip a cluster of heirloom tomatoes including one that nearly tops the Massachusetts state record.

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