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How to Grow: Vertical Gardening

Listen to this podcast on how to grow edible plants vertically on your deck, balcony, or wall.   If you'd like to start an edible garden, but your yard is limited in space or sun, think up. Vertical gardening has become popular in urban areas around the world. I see vertical gardens everywhere, from small balconies to skyscrapers. But you don't have to live in a city to grow vertically. It's a good way to maximize any space and keep your favorite edibles within reach. The first step is to assess your growing space. Determine how much...

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How to Grow: Vertical Squash

Some garden plants grow quite large and take up lots of space, like cucumbers and pumpkins. But summer squash — like zucchini and yellow crookneck — can be grown vertically if you have limited real estate in your garden. If you're really cramped for usable garden space, or you just want to downsize, many summer squash plants do well if you train them to grow vertically. Planting and growing in this manner has other benefits besides saving garden space. Your plants will have fewer insect and disease issues, and the produce will be easier to...

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How to Grow: Wild Greens

If you forage and eat wild greens like wintercress in early spring, you’re already a fan of their flavor and texture. This spring, plant cultivated varieties of some wild greens. Lambs quarters and amaranth grow easily, look attractive in your garden, and taste mild and earthy. Now, seed companies offer certain cultivated wild greens that can be planted in your backyard gardens and raised beds. You’ll have a ready-to-pick selection of delicious wild microgreens that also look beautiful and have a milder flavor than their wilder cousins....

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How to Grow: Wine Cap Mushroom

Edible mushrooms are available in more places than just your local grocery store's produce section. Mushrooms can be locally found by foraging in your area or cultivated in your garden. An easy mushroom to cultivate is the native wine cap or Stropharia mushroom. They have a mild flavor, are easy to recognize and hard to confuse with harmful species. Stropharia are visually similar to Portabello mushrooms and the caps can grow to be rather large. Stropharia grow well in a raised bed in the shade. To plant them, fill the raised bed with wood...

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How to Grow: Winter Squash

It's tough to pigeon-hole winter squash (Cucurbita maxima, C. pepo, and C. moschata). There are so many shapes, colors, and sizes, they can turn your garden into a cornucopia of fruits. They take all season to produce and most take up lots of space. But if you have the room, they're worth growing. I love going into my basement in December and pulling out a buttercup squash from storage to eat for dinner. The flesh is sweet and flavor satisfying on a cold winter day. Pumpkins are a type of winter squash, but they're so special I talk about...

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