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Homegrown/Homemade: Peas

Danielle Sherry, contributor | March 17th, 2010

Welcome to the first episode of Homegrown/Homemade. We'll be following a gardener and a cook as they plant, maintain, harvest, store, and prepare garden vegetables. Peas are planted early in the season, so we're beginning with peas.

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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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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: Getting Started in Worm Composting

Vegetable Gardener, editor | March 1st, 20101 comment

Here's how to turn your kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich compost.

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Video: Victory Garden (1942 edition)

Ruth Dobsevage, editor | February 21st, 20103 comments

Vintage footage alert: Watch the Holder family plant their quarter-acre Victory Garden in Maryland and find out what a Victory Garden meant in 1942.

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Video: Aquaponics

Ruth Dobsevage, editor | February 19th, 20102 comments

Yes, you can grow vegetables in water. In aquaponics, the plants are fertilized by fish. Rob Torcellini's greenhouse, assembled from a kit, is home to fish and plants in an interconnected system cobbled together from pipes, pumps, and tanks. Take a video tour, and learn more about aquaponics.

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Video: How to Transplant Seedlings

JMTaylor, member | February 19th, 20102 comments

This video will show you how to transplant your young seedlings to the garden or larger containers. "Handel" with care, for best results.

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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 Start Seeds

JMTaylor, member | February 8th, 201010 comments

This video will show you how to start plants from seeds successfully. Site member Mike Taylor used it to grow several thousand plants lasts year. Could it be that seedlings like Vivaldi?

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Punxsutawney Phil Sees Shadow, Predicts Six More Weeks of Winter

Ruth Dobsevage, editor | February 2nd, 20101 comment

Breaking news... Groundhog Day 2010 dawns sunny in Pennsylvania, but spring won't be quite as early as we'd like.

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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 Have an Eco-Friendly Christmas, Part 2

TheGardenGirl, | December 13th, 2009

Here are more eco-friendly tips that than save you money this holiday season!

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Video: How to Have an Eco-Friendly Christmas, Part 1

TheGardenGirl, | December 10th, 2009

There are things you can do to reduce your impact on the environment during the holidays. Watch my video for a few tips.

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Video: December Square Foot Gardening Tips

TheGardenGirl, | December 4th, 2009

Watch Mel Bartholomew, inventor of Square Foot gardening, and Patti Moreno, the garden girl, giving gardening advice for December.

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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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