Vegetable Gardening Blog

Your Midwest growing season is somewhere between 120 and 160 days, depending on whether you drew the southern Missouri card or the northern Minnesota one. That's not a lot of time — but it's enough to grow an enormous amount of food if you pick the right varieties.

Fall gardening is Texas's best-kept secret. While summer heat shuts down most production, autumn brings perfect growing conditions for dozens of vegetables. Here's your complete guide to fall planting across every Texas region.

It's February in the Midwest. The ground is frozen, the seed catalogs are dog-eared, and you're wondering if it's too early to start tomatoes. The answer is probably yes — but not for much longer.

If you garden in the Pacific Northwest and claim you don't have a slug problem, you either haven't looked closely enough or you're lying. Slugs are the unofficial mascot of PNW gardening.

Most gardening books tell you the season starts in spring and ends in fall. In the Pacific Northwest, that advice wastes half the year. Here's how to keep your garden productive every month.

Starting a vegetable garden in the South is different from gardening anywhere else in the country. Long growing seasons, intense heat, clay soils, and year-round pest pressure create unique challenges — but also incredible opportunities. Here's how to set yourself up for success.

Zone 7 is one of the most versatile gardening zones in the United States. With a growing season of 180–210 days and enough winter cold to grow great cool-season crops, Zone 7 gardeners can grow almost anything. Here's your complete month-by-month planting calendar.

Peppers are one of the best vegetables for hot-climate gardens. Unlike tomatoes that shut down in extreme heat, many pepper varieties thrive when temperatures soar. Here's everything you need to know about growing incredible peppers in Zones 8–10.

Raised beds are the fastest path to a productive vegetable garden, especially if you're dealing with poor soil, limited space, or physical limitations. Here's everything you need to know to build, fill, plant, and maintain raised beds that produce abundant food.

Florida gardening follows different rules than the rest of the country. Summer isn't your best growing season — winter is. Here's a complete guide to the best vegetables for Florida gardens, with planting dates for North, Central, and South Florida.