Growing eggplant is easy where summers are long and warm. Where summers are short, varieties that mature quickly and produce medium to small fruits can easily be grown in containers. If you grow ...

Eggplants are even simpler to grow than their tomato cousins, and they like the same conditions. Plant eggplant (Solanum melongena) in a kitchen garden in the spring, and enjoy the spongy, creamy ...

A few food-producing containers are not going to provide self-sufficiency the way a full vegetable garden can, so this promotional flood isn’t a response to world tensions. Maybe these small planting ...

• Eggplant is a warm-season crop. It needs temperatures between 21 and 30°C to do well • It will grow year round in the tropics and most of the year in subtropical areas • In temperate and cool zones, ...

Now’s the time to plant peppers and okra, and it’s your last chance to plant tomatoes with some expectation that you will produce and ripen a crop before the hot weather shuts down production. For all ...

They come from all over, and it shows. There's 'Kauai Mystery,' 'Thai Yellow Egg,' 'Rosita' and 'Brazilian Oval Orange.' Then let your color meter picture 'Pandora Striped Rose,' 'Violette di Firenze, ...

The growing season for vegetable gardens is about over, and fall cleanup is at hand. However, many of us are already looking forward to our next year's garden and what we plan to grow. Sure, most of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Container gardening is one way to stay in the gardening game while the soil dries out. It gives you freedom and flexibility. No space, poor soil, just a ...

All hope isn’t lost for aspiring farmers who lack an abundance of green space. Potted gardens and containers can fill in the gaps for beginners, people with mobility issues and those who don’t have ...