While winter squash plants are known to take up a lot of space in the garden, here's a selection of more compact varieties that you can grow in containers.

Winter squash varieties with hard rinds are staples of comfort cooking when it's cold outside. They impart a sweet and earthy flavor and can be stored for a long time over the season. It might come as ...

From dazzling flowers to delicious vegetables, these plants put on a gold medal-worthy performance in the garden.

Time lapse video of growing a zucchini plant in 76 days, from seed to fruit. The seed was germinated just fine and grew steadily with frequent watering in container. However, for some reasons, the ...

One of the most delightful new year’s rituals for backyard food growers is choosing which varieties of vegetables to grow.

California’s Norfolk Healthy Produce created lots of fanfare and a wild first year when it debuted The Purple Tomato in 2023.

Let’s be clear: canned beans are simply not as tasty as the dried beans you cook yourself. Yes, canned beans are convenient, speedy and nutritious. But cooking dried beans is much easier than you ...

Retailer offerings trumpet a variety of claims about protein, fat and fibre levels, while some seem to simply be smaller ...

When I go shopping for vegetables at the garden center or look for seeds in the catalogs that have begun arriving, I look for ...

A flurry of weight loss food ‘companions’ have recently arrived on UK supermarket shelves, designed to help those using ...

My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms ...