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How to Create Container Vegetable Gardens, with Carol Allen

How to Create Container Vegetable Gardens, with Carol Allen

Hot off the camcorder, Behnkes has a fabulous new video by Horticulturist Carol Allen about planting up vegetables in containers.  Here are the highlights (and times indicated for selective viewing), for people who, like this blogger, have short attention spans…

Thoughts on Herbs and Alcohol

Thoughts on Herbs and Alcohol

If you’d rather read about herbs and alcohol than taste them, Amy Stewart has a “hot off the press” book on the subject called, appropriately, The Drunken Botanist.  When not writing books, Stewart blogs on the popular blog Garden Rant…

Persimmons, Figs, Pawpaws, Pomegranates and More

Persimmons, Figs, Pawpaws, Pomegranates and More

This year we’re seeing more interest than ever in growing fruit, so we asked Miri Talabac to share her tips with customers during our recent Spring Open House.  Titled “Uncommon Fruits,” her talk covered these easy-to-grow fruits for our hot,…

Starting your Vegetable Garden, with lots of Q&As

Starting your Vegetable Garden, with lots of Q&As

In late January Carol Allen talked to Behnke customers about how to get their vegetable garden ready for the new season.  Carol’s an “honest-to-God horticulturist,” in her words, and avid organic vegetable gardener. First she reminded us why it’s so…

Favorite Recipes for my August Garden

Favorite Recipes for my August Garden

My garden is outdoing itself this August. The second crop of beans, just planted in mid-July, is already producing enough for dinner every other day, and the peas just planted last week where the cucumber vines had been are already…

Wangari Gardens

Watch the new Mini-Documentary about Wangari Gardens

Launching today, the 5-minute documentary chronicles one man’s journey to reclaim an abandoned piece of land in Park View neighborhood of D.C. and transform it into a shared green space for his neighbors.  It shows the determination of one person…

What’s Happening in Greenbelt’s Community Garden

What’s Happening in Greenbelt’s Community Garden

This season I’ll be visiting with Greenbelt’s community gardeners every week to report on what they’re doing in the garden and what their gardens are producing that week.   As a newbie to growing edibles myself, I’m hoping to pass on…

Behnkes Welcomes the Emmanuel Community Garden

Behnkes Welcomes the Emmanuel Community Garden

Exciting news!  The good folks at Beltsville’s Emmanuel United Methodist Church have started a community garden at our Beltsville location – right on Route 1 near the entrance, so you can’t miss it.   It’s a terrific opportunity for members of…

Got Blueberries?

Got Blueberries?

You can hardly do better than a blueberry for a multi-season, multi-use shrub! Flowers in spring start out with pinkish buds and open to white bells, and then provide you and the birds with crops of beautiful, tasty blue treats…

Vegetables in Containers

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 all vegetables), had some…

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Ideas for your Fall Vegetable Garden

With your summer vegetable garden still going strong, it’s now time to begin your fall plantings, to continue the harvest into the cooler months. Perhaps you have used all available space for your initial spring/summer planting, so what can you…

Our Heirloom Tomatoes, Peppers and one Cool-Looking Watermelon

Our Heirloom Tomatoes, Peppers and one Cool-Looking Watermelon

Thanks to Marian Parsley for the inside dope on so many of the Heirloom and unusual varieties of vegetables. Peppers Bhut Jolokia (Hot) is one of the world’s hottest peppers.  Its 3″ fruit grows skyward, not down.  Ornamental, with high…

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