What is the most popular fruit grown in our home gardens? You know it as a tomato. Botanically it is a fruit as are zucchini, peppers, cucumbers, beans and peas. Nutritionists call them all vegetables, mainly because we eat them as savory dishes. But by whatever classification, a tomato is what so many of us … Read more
If you click on the image below, you will be taken to the vegetable seed sowing PDF and you can print directly from there. Good luck and happy planting!
Here in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, fall is the best time to plant milkweed seeds. It’s too warm for the ground to be frozen but too cold for seeds to sprout before winter sets in. Exposing seeds to cool temperatures before the warmer temps of spring will cause them to break their dormancy and … Read more
Come and watch one of our members as they harvest some of the late summer bounty that is found in their garden. Each plant is described as she picks the vegetables. Watch Now!