Seed or Seedling?
This direct-seed root vegetable usually has a round, red root and smooth leaves. It is not spicy, and can stain your hands when you cut it.
What is a beet?
This flower likes to grow with zucchini.
What is nasturtium?
What is mulch? (or compost)
This warm weather plant likes to be planted 6 seeds to a foot in a row, with 18-24 inches between rows. It grows well near corn or squash.
What is a bush bean?
What is zucchini?
This transplant has poisonous leaves, and is planted when the weather is warm. Gardeners like the (often red) fruit of this plant in salads or sliced on a sandwich.
What is a tomato?
This flower can repel some pest insects.
What are marigolds?
Mixing this homemade soil amendment into your soil can help feed plants.
What is compost?
This cool weather plant likes at least 18 inches to itself on all sides, but prefers 24.
What is cauliflower?
This cool weather green should have 9 plants per square foot. It is yummy raw in salads or cooked.
What is spinach?
This direct-seed vegetable is planted when the water is warm. It gets very tall and likes to grow with beans.
What is corn?
This plant does not like growing near tomatoes.
What is corn?
Planting this can prevent erosion and protect and feed soil when you're not growing vegetables in it.
What is a cover crop?
What is chard?
This cool weather root crop is a little spicy! You can plant 16 of these per square foot.
What are radishes?
This transplant is prized for its delicious green leaves. Many gardeners like to put it on pizza or use it for pesto sauce.
What is basil?
This plant does not like growing near strawberries.
What are brussels sprouts?
This test can tell you if your soil needs any nutrients.
What is a soil test?
This fragrant, fall-planted bulb likes to be planted 3 inches apart, in rows 12-18 inches apart.
What is garlic?
This warm weather plant can make mild or spicy fruits, usually green, yellow, or red, but sometimes even purple! You should only plant one per square foot.
What are peppers?
This direct-seed vegetable is one of the first that can be planted in the spring. It is delicious AND it can help other plants grow by feeding them nitrogen.
What are peas?
Often known as the "three sisters," these three plants help each other grow.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
These three nutrients are the most common in fertilizer.
This cool weather plant likes to climb, and can be planted very close together - even one seed per inch! Trellised rows should be 18-24 inches apart.
What are peas?
This cool weather root crop can be planted 16 per square foot. The roots are often orange, but can come in many other colors as well.
What are carrots?