Vegetables to Grow in Containers As a still-new-to-all-this vegetable gardener whose only good space to grow them is on the deck, I need help choosing the best varieties to grow in containers. Fortunately Marian Parsley, Behnkes’ buyer of annuals (including…
Thanks to Susan Reimer’s article about raised beds in the Baltimore Sun, we’ve gotten lots of questions about the ones we’re selling, and here are the answers! How they’re made They’re made by local Amish carpenters based on a design…
Last week’s night-time temperatures in the low 30s had the Potomac store staff scrambling to tuck in our tender young plants under their blankies! We’re not out of the cold weather woods yet, either; our frost-free safety date here in…
Make Vegetable Gardening Fun and Interesting – Mix It Up. Now that I have you thinking about spring vegetables in the “Dread of Winter,” go to Behnke’s at Beltsville to enjoy the color and beauty while shopping for your cool…
It’s time to take the cool-season vegetable seeds you’ve purchased and plant them indoors so that they will be ready to set out in the garden in mid-March. Cool-season vegetables include cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, spinach, mustards and collards. There…
Okra thrives in warm to hot weather and thoroughly warmed soil, and these cultivars are ready to grow in your garden. Okra pods can be prepared in many ways, from grilling to pickling. The plants are decorative and have beautiful hibiscus-like flowers.
Mixed savory and sweet peppers fresh from the garden can be used to make delectable pepper sandwiches. Each pepper plant will produce many peppers, and pepper sandwiches are a great way to utilize the pepper harvest. Pepper plants are easy to grow and make decorative additions to any garden.
Cherry, grape, and pear tomatoes are the tomatoes for “garden candy”. They start fruiting early in the season, continue all summer, and are the last tomatoes in the garden in the middle of autumn.
One of the easiest and most rewarding things for a gardener to grow is a selection of herbs. It’s fun to use your own fresh herbs in cooking, they are interesting to learn, the most common ones all have the same growing requirements, and animal pests tend to leave them along.
Thinking of growing your own fresh herbs? Thyme is one of the easiest herbs to grow, as French Thymewell as one of the most versatile. Like most herbs, it is best planted in full sun and needs well-drained soil. It…
Throughout most of human history the average person’s daily life revolved around the search for food, and nearly every occupation related in one way or another to agriculture and the production of fruits and vegetables. In days gone by, a…
