It was a surprise for us to find a sweet potato vine growing from our compost heap. Here is how we transplanted it and got a tiny crop of volunteer sweet potatoes.
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Kitchen composting gives you lots of rich soil. Let your garden feed the garden, rather than buying fertilizer and other soil amendments! Here's what you need for easy composting in the urban kitchen.
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I’ve decided not to grow garden strawberries, mostly because they take up so much space in the urban garden. Here’s what I learned about growing strawberries, and why farmer's market berries are so pricey.
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Upper Shirley Vineyards didn’t plan to have a vineyard garden. But with so many farm-to-table restaurants actually tending their own kitchen gardens, the vineyard was inspired to explore just how “local” its own kitchen could get.
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Dogs, visitors, even buried electrical wiring: Here's a list of common garden pests in urban backyards, and our successful organic methods for keeping them at bay.
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Late fall and early winter are a good time for garden tool care, including tool sharpening. I used to take my pruners, hand hoes and shears off to a garden center or knife sharpener, but it’s easy to do it yourself.
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We spent two afternoons building this urban garden cold frame, at a total cost of $49.41. Here is our step-by-step guide to DIY cold frame building for your garden.
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This earthy side dish works best with the larger carrots of late summer and early fall, or supermarket carrots that have been stored a while. Save the tender baby carrots for salads and other lighter dishes.
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Looking for a different pasta shape to make with sweet potato? These little sweet potato gnocchi pillows have ridges that capture your favorite tomato-based sauce, and they're fun to make. Here's the recipe.
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Braised kale is a staple of the Southern kitchen. Don’t forget to drink the tangy braised kale pot liquor - the savory liquid that’s left after the braise. Southerners believe it’s a health tonic.
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We call it "winter kale" because kale is happiest in the colder weather of fall, winter and early spring. Here’s how to keep winter kale as a reliable urban garden crop all winter long.
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Struggling to grow garden basil? The real problem probably isn’t your lack of green thumb - basil is tricky. Here's why we have kind of a love/hate relationship with basil, and our tips for keeping it happy.
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A winter cover crop helps the rebuild the garden's soil, chockes out weeds and prevents soil erosion. It’s not just for big farms, here’s how to grow a winter cover crop in a tiny urban garden.
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This quick fermented sauerkraut recipe is easy, trendy and probiotic. You can mix up this sauerkraut in minutes and then let ferment for two weeks in any corner of the house.
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It's hard to believe a tomato sandwich requires a recipe, but Southerners will fight over the smallest of sandwich details. After consulting with many chefs, and our own taste buds, we settled on this classic recipe.
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When growing tomatoes, you must figure out one big thing before everything else: Will you grow determinate or indeterminate tomatoes? You can't enter into this decision lightly. Here’s a guide.
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In the fall, I cut our thyme back hard, and then dry it in the house. Not all herbs dry well, but drying thyme is pretty much idiot-proof. There are only a few little tricks to getting it right.
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Growing rosemary in a pot is what pulled me into gardening. It's so easy to grow! In fact, osemary, in a pot or not, is an almost-perfect herb for urban gardening, and here's why you should grow it.
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