Vegetable Gardening Blog

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.

Spring means something completely different depending on where you live. A Zone 4 gardener is still watching snow melt when a Zone 9 gardener is harvesting tomatoes. Here's your spring vegetable garden checklist, customized for every major USDA zone.

Most Southeast gardeners pack it in after summer. That's like leaving a baseball game in the fifth inning — you're missing the best part.

Everyone in the South grows tomatoes. Almost nobody is happy about how it goes in July. Here's how to fix that.

Spring in the Southeast doesn't arrive — it lurches. One week it's 75°F and you're in shorts. The next week there's frost on your windshield.