Romaine is a cold-hardy crop that can be harvested about 65 to 70 days after planting—the leaves will be dark green and 6 inches high. Different harvesting techniques can extend the life of romaine ...

For more than two decades, Nadia has been a copywriter, editor, and translator for digital and print in a variety of industries. Her passions and areas of expertise are food and gardening. She has ...

There is nothing more satisfying for a vegetable gardener in mid-July than tossing together a salad for dinner with ingredients harvested just outside your back door. While cucumber, squashes, and the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For a lot of us growing up, the only home-grown lettuce we might have had was probably the large-leafed ...

If you think growing leaves is easy, think again. Lettuce isn’t the world’s most challenging crop, but as any farmer knows, there are plenty of problems that pop up between planting and harvest. The ...

Its original hydroponic gardening system, the Farmstand, helped people grow and harvest 20% of their own fresh produce, eliminating food waste and reducing water and carbon impact by more than 98%. I ...