Edible Gardens

  For healthy vegetable gardens, it’s best to rotate your crops each year. By rotating your vegetable crops each year, you’ll reduce pests and pathogens and add nutrients to the soil. That’s why you should avoid growing vegetables from the same family in the same place more than once over a three-year period. It’s not always easy to remember which vegetables […]

“In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.” Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905 It’s harvest time, a time when many gardens are loaded with late-season vegetables and fruit ripening to perfection. So, it seemed the right time […]

These sweet little radishes may be called ‘Easter Egg’ radishes (Raphanus staivus), but we didn’t harvest them until several weeks after Easter. Despite the delay, however, we’ve become fans of this early radish.  The pretty variety gets its name from the delightful pink, red, scarlet, lavender and white radishes it produces in about 25 days. […]

This spring I’ve decided to try something new with the seeds I’m sowing in my garden. Typically, I’ll wait until after May 8 (last average frost day in Boise) to direct seed those warm-season plants like heirloom beans, winter squash and cucumbers right into the soil. But this year I’m attempting to get a head […]