Edible plants · 32 guides
Edible plants
Grow what you eat. Honest, step-by-step guides for onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots, cilantro, jalapenos, corn, and the rest of the home vegetable patch.
EdibleBorage Plant Care: The Bee Magnet Edible Herb (Grower's Guide)
Borage is the easiest pollinator herb you can grow — here's exact spacing, sun, watering, and harvest tips for non-stop blue flowers all summer.
8 min
EdibleHow Far Apart to Plant Apple Trees (By Rootstock)
Apple tree spacing depends entirely on rootstock — dwarf 8–10 ft, semi-dwarf 12–18 ft, standard 25–35 ft. Plus pollination distance, row spacing, and home-yard fixes.
9 min
EdibleHow to Grow Basil Indoors (Year-Round Pesto Supply)
Grow sweet basil indoors all year for a constant pesto supply. Exact light, watering, soil, pinching, and harvest steps that keep one plant going for 6+ months.
8 min
EdibleHow to Grow Bell Peppers (Thick-Walled Sweet Peppers)
Grow thick-walled, glossy bell peppers in 70-90 days. Full guide to soil, sun, watering, feeding, and harvest for in-ground beds, raised beds, and containers.
9 min
EdibleHow to Grow Chives (Hardy Perennial Herb Guide)
Grow chives once, harvest for a decade. This guide covers soil, light, watering, dividing, and harvesting Allium schoenoprasum in pots or in the garden.
8 min
EdibleHow to Grow Lettuce in Containers (Salad on the Patio)
Grow crisp, bolt-free lettuce in pots all season. Container size, soil, watering, light, and the cut-and-come-again trick that gives you fresh salad for months.
8 min
EdibleHow to Grow Mint (Without It Taking Over the Yard)
Mint will swallow a garden in two seasons. Here's how to grow peppermint or spearmint in pots, harvest non-stop, and keep its runners from invading every bed.
8 min
EdibleHow to Grow Oregano (Mediterranean Pizza Herb)
Grow pungent Greek oregano at home for pizza, pasta and roasts. Full guide to sun, soil, watering, harvesting and drying — plus how to keep flavour strong.
8 min
EdibleHow to Grow Radishes (28-Day Crop for Beginners)
Radishes are the fastest crop you can grow — seed to harvest in 28 days. Soil, spacing, watering, light, and the thinning trick for round crisp roots.
7 min
EdibleHow to Grow Scallions (Endless Green Onions on the Windowsill)
Regrow scallions for free from grocery-store scraps. Water vs soil, light, harvest tips, and how to keep one bunch producing fresh green onions for months.
7 min
EdibleHow to Grow Spinach (Cool-Weather Salad Crop Guide)
Grow tender spinach without bolting. Best soil, sowing depth, spacing, watering, and the cool-season timing that gives you weeks of cut-and-come-again leaves.
9 min
EdibleHow to Grow Strawberries from Seed (For Patient Gardeners)
Grow strawberries from seed: cold stratify 4 weeks, surface-sow on fine mix, raise seedlings under a grow light, harvest year-1 berries from alpine varieties.
11 min