Today we’ve got some end of summer gardening tips from W. Atlee Burpee & Co. More specifically tips about how you can cultivate a successful last-minute autumn vegetable garden. Many assume that it’s actually getting close to too late to plant a fall garden, but George Ball, chairman of W. Atlee Burpee & Co. notes that “Folks who may be running short on time to plant their fall kitchen gardens shouldn’t be discouraged… With proper planning,the turn-around time for fall produce can be as early as 60 days or less.”
These are excellent tips for folks who missed out on a …read more

If you’re excited about growing your own Halloween pumpkins this year, and haven’t gotten started, it’s time now. And by now I mean yesterday. Most types of pumpkins can take anywhere from 4 months + to grow to full size. IF you haven’t planted already you can possibly still grow an average sized pumpkin though, you’ll just need to give your plants a better head start – i.e. allow seedlings to grow inside for a bit longer before transplanting or snag some already growing plants from a local nursery. See an amazing pumpkin growing guide for more tips.
Which type to …read more

It’s zucchini time in the Midwest and Northeast and if you are looking for ideas on how to serve these omnipresent green-colored squash, we have ideas:

Cut them into 1/2″ x 3″ spears and eat raw.
Make zucchini muffins
Grate zucchini in your salad
Grill them.
Make zucchini bread
Use in a vegetable stir-fry
Make stuffed zucchini
Create ratatouille
Bake in vegetable lasagna
Serve baked zucchini with tomatoes
Freeze them
Cut into spears and use as garnish in Bloody Mary cocktails
Pickle them
Serve in marinated zucchini salad
Make gagutz
Add them to vegetable soup
Make zucchini-lemon sorbet (just ’cause it sounded so intriguing)
Make Grilled fish with zucchini and eggplant (a la Rachel Ray)
Bake into zucchini chips …read more