What size should my first garden be?

I plan to grow three types of tomatoes, three types of hot peppers, corn, squash, peas, corn salad, carrots, pak choy, scallions and two types of radish. I’m doing this in a community garden. My plot size choices are 20 X 40 ft. or 20 X 20 ft. What’s my best choice?

Does anyone have a list of perennial herbs, vegetables, and fruits for Zone 4, Minnesota hardy?

I am planning a small (100 Sq. Ft) edible perennial garden, and would like a list of easy-to-grow perennial herbs, vegetables and fruits.
Have you created one? How has it worked/not worked?
Right now, I have raspberries, chives, scallions and strawberries and they seem to do fine with little to no attention besides weeding, of [...]

Can you eat wild onions and dandelions in your yard?

I recently picked some wild onions, the ones that look like scallions/green onions. I cleaned them up and they look good to eat but are they? Also, I know that dandelions are sometimes used in herbal stuff like teas and salads. Are those the same dandelions you find growing in the yard [...]

why aren’t my tomato plants getting any fruit on them?

they are brandywines and are growing very well with lots of flowers but no tomatos’. my garden used to be the manure pile from horses for years. i took all the manure out and treated it with amonium sulfate 3 years ago and made it into my garden(fenced off from the horses of course
). everything [...]

Benefits of eating vegetables – cooked or raw

With the right vegetables, however, you can eat as many as you want how many times you want it and not gain a pound. Exercise caution, however, by picking the right kinds of vegetables, as not all can keep you slim. This is because there are vegetables that are high in calories while there are [...]

10 Ways to Treat Endometriosis Naturally

What is endometriosis?
Endometriosis is a painful condition in which endometrial tissue, which lines the uterus, can appear in the pelvic cavity and elsewhere in the body where it doesn?t belong. Endometriosis is one of the most frequent diseases in gyneacology, affecting 15-20% of women in their reproductive life, contributing to 5% cases of infertility. [...]

What besides green onions or scallions can you put in a jar of water and have them grow for you?

Thanks!
I meant grow so you can eat them. The green onions you just snipe off the top and eat them.
Sprouts were a good idea!

Where do scallions grow?

I like to use local produce whenever possible. Most of the items at our local green market are high quality but the scallions are not as nice as the ones at the supermarket– is this because scallions don’t grow well locally (In New York) ?
Where do most scallions come from?

Healing Cancer with Proper Diet

Avoid all chlorine and fluoride in your diet. This includes avoiding tap water and foods made with tap water. Chlorine and fluoride destroys many phytonutrients and other nutrients, thus the damage done to the food during processing, if chlorine is used, is permanent and cannot be reversed. This means, for example, not drinking soda pop [...]

Window Boxes or Window Flower Boxes for Your Kitchen Garden

We should eat green leafy veggies to stay healthy, which is not a problem. Where to get fresh vegetables is what concerns us. We can buy them in the market but for some people it would be fun to grow them in their garden. That is if you have a garden. The alternative would be [...]

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