How To Grow — category: How to Grow Vegetables

Peppers are tropical plants that need lots of heat and attention to detail when starting them. Well grown in a warm summer, they are the gardener’s triumph. Interestingly, the hot peppers often do better in a cool summer than the large bell peppers. If the hot peppers have not coloured up fully on your plants, pull up the whole plant and hang in a warm dry area. Follow along with this handy How to Grow Peppers from seeds guide and grow spicy and sweet delight. Latin Capsicum annuum, C. baccatum, and C. chinense Family: Solanaceae Difficulty Moderately difficult Season & Zone Season: Warm...

All bush and pole beans are high in starch, protein, dietary fibre, and a host of minerals such as potassium, iron, selenium, and molybdenum. Green beans, whether grown on a bush or a vine, are very high in vitamin C and calcium. when reconstituted and cooked, dry beans are very high in starch, protein, and dietary fibre.  Follow along with this handy How to Grow Bush Beans Guide and some of your family’s favourite food! Latin Phaseolus Vulgaris Family: Fabaceae Difficulty Easy Season & Zone Season: Warm season Exposure: Full-sun Zone: 3 and warmer Timing Direct sow from mid-May to the beginning...

These cool-season vegetables are incredibly easy to grow and very tasty. The leaves can be used raw in salads, but the whole plant can be steamed or stir-fried. Both types require regular watering and a watchful grower – plant repeated short rows, and be sure to harvest them before they bolt.  Follow along with this handy How to Grow Pac Choi and Choi sum Guide and grow delicious greens for stir-frying and steaming. Latin Brassica rapa chinensis Family: Brassicaceae Difficulty Easy We Recommend: Mei Qing Choi (MU553). For growers particularly, this hybrid variety is surprisingly uniform in timing and growth. The plants...

The chicory family includes the food plants endive and radicchio, which range in flavour from bitter to sweet. All varieties become sweeter, and lose much of their bitterness, when cooked. Try a hot oil salad dressing over endive, or a barbecued head of radicchio!  Follow along with this handy How to Grow Endive and Radicchio Guide and grow food. Latin Cichorium endiva (endive) & C. intybus (radicchio) Family: Asteraceae Difficulty Endive is easy. Radicchio is moderately difficult. Belgian endive (witloof) is downright challenging – but worth the effort! We Recommend: Palla Rossa (MS491). If you are unfamiliar with radicchio, the time has...

The flavour of parsnips becomes sweeter after frost. They are a very versatile vegetable in the kitchen to fry, roast, steam, mash, or bake. Parsnips take their time becoming large in the garden, but then they can be harvested as needed since they store in the ground so well. Follow along with this handy how to grow parsnips guide and grow food. Latin Pastinaca sativa Family: Apiaceae Difficulty Easy We Recommend: Gladiator (PN581). This hybrid parsnip was bred to be fast-growing, uniform, and large – and we’ve seen some HUGE ones! At any size it has very appealing, mild flavour and it’s...