A big salad is the easy way to fix dinner in the summer, but buying endless heads of lettuce at the grocery store gets pricey, especially when growing your own harvest at home is practically foolproof ...

There is nothing more satisfying for a vegetable gardener in mid-July than tossing together a salad for dinner with ingredients harvested just outside your back door. While cucumber, squashes, and the ...

We can grow some of our food inside our house here in winter. Lettuce and other greens are a good place to start. Some vegetables need the blazing hot sun of Michigan’s summer to produce nice food. A ...

As food prices continue to rise faster than the general rate of inflation, growing your own looks more and more appealing. Often food prices take a quick jump due to things that are beyond the control ...

Planning a garden is about more than just how it looks. Of course, most gardeners want to have a garden that flourishes with beautiful colors and a full harvest, but in order to achieve that, you must ...

The best lettuce companion plants tend to be vegetables, herbs, and flowers that thrive in cooler weather and appreciate ...

Here in southeastern Michigan, we have just about enough time for a fall crop of leaf lettuce. About four weeks from the average first frost of autumn is a good approximation of the last chance to ...

With the latter portion of August (somehow) upon us, many may soon be turning to their vegetable gardens, eager to sow fall salad greens and root vegetables. With soils still warm but the weather ...

Companion planting turns an ordinary garden into a coordinated, productive system where plants support each other in ...