Gardening: fruit and vegetable

GROW STRAWBERRIES AT HOME Strawberries are not only delicious, theyre also fun and rewarding to grow!

A good diet incorporating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables is a must if you want to stay fit and healthy and keep the bugs at bay during the cold winter months.

Llegado de Nueva Zelanda, el kiwi conquistó los mercados del hemisferio norte hace unos años y los occidentales aprecian hoy día las virtudes vitamínicas y sus múltiples cualidades gastronómicas.

De todos los árboles frutales, el cerezo es el que más abunda en nuestros jardines.

Muy apreciada por los gourmets, fácil de cultivar y rentable, la fresa puede seducir a todos aquellos que deseen diversificar su producción a mayor o menor escala.

Su pulpa jugosa y su excelente sabor hacen que la pera sea una de las frutas más consumidas en nuestro país.

¿Está satisfecho del rendimiento de su jardín hortícola y floral?

¿Desea que los productos de su huerto sean de gran calidad?

¿Cuáles son las necesidades ambientales de cada especie frutal?

Hydroponic gardening is a method for growing plant material for consumption primarily, but can also be used for an aesthetic garden if desired.

Aquaponic gardening is a symbiotic gardening system that relies upon both flora and fauna to create a balanced ecosystem for harvesting both fish and plant material.

Interested in learning how to grow grapes?

Originarios de Asia, los cítricos tienen una historia muy antigua, que se remonta a periodos anteriores a la era cristiana.

¿Por qué no aprovechar la influencia de la luna para mejorar nuestros cultivos?

Perejil, albahaca, melisa, salvia, romero, tomillo…, todas estas hierbas alegran nuestros platos.

Cultivadas en todos los continentes, las judías verdes que consumimos hoy son originarias de México, Perú y Colombia.

Originario de América del Sur, el tomate llegó a Europa con Cristóbal Colón.

Bajo el nombre de calabazas y calabacines, se agrupan un buen número de especies de la familia de las cucurbitáceas.

La cuenca mediterránea es la cuna de la lechuga.

Desde el pequeño invernadero destinado a resguardar las plantas de las heladas en invierno hasta las construcciones ambiciosas que permiten cultivar especies raras, la gama es considerable.

No room to garden outside?

A comprehensive guide to designing a beautiful and self-sufficient garden; planting heirloom vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruits; and cooking with natural ingredients

The best-tasting vegetables are heirlooms, the most-fragrant flowers are heirlooms, and the most-interesting plants are heirlooms.

This book offers a clear picture of all that we need to know to make our small plot of land the most productive it can be.

What can I do?

When Brett Markham published a small black and white handbook about how to run a successful mini farmhe never dreamed how popular the book would soon become.

Fifteen peopleplus a class of first graderstell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community.

Bestselling author Brett Markhams new handbook gives us the mini farming basics along with in-depth tips on vegetable gardening, fermenting, composting, and self-sufficiency in a handy new format and design.

Growing your own food is a hot topic today because of the high cost of transporting food long distances, the heightened problem of diseases caused by commercially grown foods, concerns of the overuse of chemicals in mass food production, and the uncertain health effects of GMOs.

The first thing to do about starting an orchard is to plan for it, Jacob Biggle, the author of this handy little book, advises.

When The Biggle Garden Book was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers.

The only just and true way for an honorable and manly man is to grow them, and let everybody about the place have all he can eat.

Fifteen peopleplus a class of first graderstell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community.

With the paradigm shift toward local and homegrown food, gardeners and foodies have come to relish beautiful vegetable gardens and beautiful meals.

Maximize your vegetable output!

Grow better tomatoes-more reliably, more profitably, and with less guesswork Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding crops to grow and one of the easiest to get wrong.

Contained within these pages is a detailed yet concise article on setting up and maintaining an apple orchard.

Crisp apples, tart lemons, lush figs, tender peachesimagine the bounty of a late-summer farmer's market, right in your backyard!

The biggest mistake gardeners make each season is starting out too big and then quickly realizing their large plot requires too much weeding, watering, and backbreaking labor.

It''s time for home gardeners to rethink the traditional garden and explore the wide variety of options for growing edibles in "anywhere" gardens—from decorative pots and raised beds to unusual growing bags, hanging pouches, and tomato rings.

Whether you have a backyard or only a terrace, you bet you can grow beautiful heirloom tomatoes!

Wouldn't it be great to easily and quickly grow fresh fruit and vegetables in your own backyard?

The virtues of organic food have long been apparent.

Getting started on growing your own fruit can seem daunting - as appealing as the thought may be - and many people are put off by a lack of knowledge and time.

Swap the annuals for edibles, creating attractive beds and containers that both beautify the yard and provide a bounty of fresh produce

As a trained chef-turned-professional kitchen garden designer, Marta Teegen knows what a difference freshly harvested vegetables can make to a meal—and how easy it is to ensure seasonal vegetables are always available when you need them.