Garden Troubleshooting

Homegrown lettuce is always the best. The leafy, green heads harvested from your home garden will almost always yield a fresher, crisper and better tasting lettuce compared to the heads bought at the supermarket. However, growing lettuce in your home garden can raise some questions. For example, how much sun does lettuce need?   So how much sun does lettuce…

Growing Cilantro in your home garden is always a great idea as it is easy to grow and has a wide range of uses. From salads to sandwiches to even stir fry, cilantro can give any mundane dish a much needed boost of flavor. However, despite the simplicity of growing cilantro, there can be instances where your cilantro plants will…

One of the most commonly grown crops in backyard vegetable gardens is none other than cucumbers. Despite their popularity, many gardeners are unaware of how much space cucumbers actually need to grow. Cucumbers are known to grow in any the direction they please, so can be difficult to determine how much space each plant really needs. So how much space…

Carrots are one of the most popular vegetables to grow in the garden. However, when harvesting your carrots, you will not find any seeds on the carrot plants nor within the carrots themselves. This begs the question, where do carrot seeds come from? So where do carrot seeds come from? Carrot seeds come from carrot flowers. Carrots are biennial plants…

For many gardeners, early summer marks beginning of raspberry season. Those juicy, red berries begin to appear all over raspberry bushes ready to be harvested and consumed. While nothing beats an abundant harvest of juicy, tart and sweet raspberries, sometimes black spots can appear on your berries making them an eyesore and more importantly, having you question if they should…

Juicy, sweet, and ripe with flavor. Strawberries are always better when they are homegrown. However, many gardeners plant their strawberry seeds with the hope of an abundant yield of strawberries, only to be disappointed by a plant with few to no flowers and, therefore, no strawberries. So why do many strawberry plants fail to produce flowers? The main cause of strawberry…

Onions are hardy plants with high yields and are an essential part of countless recipes. Because of this, they make for a great crop to grow in the garden. Therefore, it is important to know how many onions we can expect when planting them in the garden. So how many onions can you expect from one onion bulb? Only onion…

Growing Asparagus takes a lot of time and therefore a lot of patience. However, once it’s ready to be harvested it can produce several spears of healthy asparagus for years and years to come. The only issue is that many gardeners are unaware of exactly how long asparagus takes to grow from sowing the seeds to harvesting the shoots. So…

Nothing beats growing beets in the garden. They are known to be resistant to both warm and cooler temperatures and will also grow in almost any kind of soil, thus making them an easy crop for beginner gardeners.  Like all plants, however, beets are susceptible to their fair share of issues. So why are my beet leaves turning brown? Beet…