The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Five gallon buckets make bucket gardening simple, affordable, and surprisingly productive, even in the smallest spaces. With good drainage holes and the right container vegetables, you can grow fresh patio crops like peppers and bush beans all season long.
Discover the best companion plants for Armenian cucumbers to boost growth, deter pests, attract pollinators, and create a lush, productive garden. From nasturtiums and marigolds to beans, herbs, and heat-tolerant flowers, these pairings make the most of every sunny space.
Growing beans at home is an easy way to enjoy fresh, flavorful harvests while boosting your garden’s soil health. With so many varieties to choose from and simple growing tips to follow, you can start picking tender pods or hearty dry beans in just a few weeks.
Planning your bean patch is easier than you think: as a general rule, allow 50 feet of row per person for bush beans or 35 feet for pole beans. If you want to use beans both fresh and dry, double that amount and mark your rows so you can harvest each at the right time for the best flavor and quality.
Wondering whether bush or pole beans are best for your garden? Compare their space, support, care, harvest, and yield requirements to choose the perfect variety for a plentiful crop of fresh, flavorful beans.
Grow delicious lima beans with confidence! From choosing bush or vine varieties to planting, watering, protecting, and harvesting, this simple guide covers everything you need for a healthy, productive crop.