Vegetables to plant in July

As the heat of July strikes your garden planting vegetable seeds might be the last thing on your mind.

Surprisingly, July is the right time to plant many kinds of  vegetable seeds for fall harvest.

Vegetable seeds to plant in July

Almost the same vegetable seeds which are planted in spring can be put into the garden in [...]

A simple guide to strawberry planters

As I wait for spring to hit Kansas I can’t help but dream of the fruits of summer.

Although strawberries can be found in my local grocery store just about every day of the year, nothing beats the taste of fresh, sun-warmed, home grown strawberries.

All about strawberry planters

Strawberry planters have become one of the new garden [...]

10 no-fuss foods for your garden

Nasturtiums by krossbow

My sister and I skipped round the sunlit garden, nasturtium seeds in hand. Gardening was a mystery to me, but everything was fun with my big sister.

Scrape the baked-hard soil among the stones and make a dent, pop in a nasturtium seed, cover it up, water it, and wait.

Easy to grow and [...]

12 Ways to Get Your Greens

Greens in My Garden 04/10

Are you growing your own green vegetables? What about meeting the challenge of eating your daily quota?

Most of us don’t grow enough for 100% of our vegetable needs. We simply don’t have the garden capacity or know how (yet). Eating locally grown vegetables, no matter the source, can inspire [...]

Kansas City Gardening for Africa

Grant and Paige Shadden – 2005

Grant and Paige Shadden are a sweet, young Kansas City couple who want to grow their own, healthy vegetables, in their own back yard. It sounds unremarkable.

But Grant and Paige know the value and power of organic vegetable gardening and they are doing something unusual. They are gardening in [...]