Grow a bountiful, eco-conscious vegetable garden with Rootsy’s practical, seasonal approach to vegetable gardening. Whether you’re starting seeds, planning succession plantings, tending raised beds, or managing container setups, our step-by-step guides support each stage of the season.
From nurturing healthy soil with compost, worm castings, and green manures, to keeping pests in check using companion planting and natural pest controls, you’ll find ways to grow wellness in every row.
Dive into crop planning tools, cold-climate strategies like season extenders, and techniques for continuous harvesting to keep your garden productive and satisfying year-round.
The right gardening tools can be the difference between really enjoying being in the garden or being frustrated in the garden. There are tons of tools touted as the “best” gardening tools but honestly, not all of them are really necessary. We’re going to chat about the different types of gardening tools, what they’re used …
Growing rhubarb can be one of the easiest things to grow in the home garden. Because it grows in a wide range of garden zones, this low maintenance plant can give you many, many years of harvests. Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that does well in garden zones 3 to 8. It is even considered …
For the most part, seeds will germinate when they are ready if they are given the right conditions. However, you can speed up the process by germinating seeds on a paper towel, this is called pre-sprouting, or pre-germinating, seeds. All you need is a paper towel or coffee filter, a container that seals, seeds, and …
It happens to every gardener, the weather doesn’t exactly cooperate and we’re left with immature pumpkins on the vine. Thankfully, there are other ways to ripen green pumpkins. A little time, space and sunlight is all you need to turn that weather mishap into good eating fortune. When to Harvest Pumpkins Ideally, pumpkins and other …
Proper end of season garden maintenance will help you grow more fruits and vegetables next spring. It can also help reduce weeds and pest pressure and make spring gardening more enjoyable. And it doesn’t have to be overwhelming, just focus on these few garden tasks. The end of the summer garden is usually full of …
If you’re a gardener, you need a way to organize and store leftover garden seeds for the next season. Stored properly, most seeds will remain viable for at least a year, some up to four or five years. Here are some simple seed storage solutions and answers to the most common seed storage questions. My …
The summer heat can be just what our gardens need to grow amazing vegetables and herbs. Or it can completely burn up the garden. Here are some tried and true tips for keeping your vegetable and herb garden healthy and growing through the summer heat. Water Deeply Most vegetable plants need an inch of water …
When people think of fermenting vegetables they usually think of sauerkraut which is fermented cabbage. But there are many other vegetables that make great ferments. Here’s what to grow in a fermenter’s garden. Two main way of fermenting vegetables There are two main ways to ferment vegetables, I like to call them the sauerkraut way …
Sometimes people think that organic gardening means not using any kind of pest control in the vegetable garden. That’s simply not the case. Organic gardening means thinking holistically about the garden instead of just trying to control a certain pest on a certain plant. It also means using natural pest control methods for pest pressure. …
Raising your own vegetables for fresh home produce is a goal that every self-reliant gardener strives to achieve. You’ll have success with vegetables for the home garden when you follow these simple rules. Once you sit down with the plethora of seed catalogs received every spring, you realize that the possibilities for growing healthy food in …