Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! What a beautiful mild week of weather for the middle of August. I stopped by a local farm stand this week loaded with fresh tomatoes and peppers. One of my ...

Broccoli - like many other famous veggies and greens - doesn’t occur in the wild. The plant is part of the mustard family and is related to Brussel sprouts, cabbage, kale, and collard greens. Although ...

As we are clear the vegetable patch of spent bean vines, corn stalks and mildewy squash vines these days, it is time to plant a fall crop of broccoli. A trip to the nursery will reveal a bountiful ...

Most home gardeners don't realize there are two types of broccoli: heading and sprouting. Most garden broccoli is of the heading type, which is closely related to cauliflower and forms a large central ...

The National Gardening Bureau has deemed 2023 as ‘Year of the Broccoli.’ Swihart Swihart The National Gardening Bureau has deemed 2023 as ‘Year of the Broccoli.’ With the turn of the new year, it ...

Next month is an exciting time in the vegetable garden. In March, spring planting begins for warm-season vegetables, such as tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers and green beans. These plants will ...

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea) is a prolific—and delicious—addition to any garden. While cultivating this hardy green is fairly simple, there are some plants that should be kept away from broccoli to ...

There are certain vegetables grown by Alaska gardeners that have always been our go-to plants. I don’t like to call them short-season crops, but rather Alaskan standards. Outdoors, these standards are ...