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Practical garden guides for growing your own food

These garden guides are not your typical generic advice. They are thorough, detailed, and thoughtfully answer your gardening questions.

Even something as simple as 'how far apart should corn be planted,' gets a detailed explanation (conventional advice is based on fitting farm equipment between the rows, not the practical spacing home gardeners can use).

The guides are based on knowledge from various experts:

  • University researchers & published papers
  • Agriculturalists & farmers
  • My own education & decades of experience

I've published guides on growing several different vegetables so far. Each topic takes a significant amount of time to dig into (pun intended) and reach out to researchers for their expertise. These guides are not rushed, but I am continually adding more each month.

If you have a topic you'd like to know more about, leave a comment. I can either answer it quickly or get working on that plant guide sooner than later.

 

  • 85+ Gift ideas for a gardener (who has everything)
  • Best varieties to grow for sun-dried tomatoes (from garden trials)
  • The best tomatoes for making paste, based on flavor
  • The best & cheapest sources for vegetable seeds in 2025
  • When to harvest butternut squash: ripening stages
  • The best pickling cucumbers (for crisp pickles!)
  • What to do with large zucchini - suitable recipes
  • Bell pepper growth stages (with timeline photos!)
  • How to grow bell peppers (in YOUR climate!)
  • When to harvest bell peppers (are they ripe yet?)
  • My new favorite seed starting supplies
  • How to protect your garden from a heat wave
  • How to grow asparagus for beginners (with pictures!)
  • Seed picks for my 2025 garden
  • Growing butternut squash on a trellis
  • The best asparagus varieties for your region
  • When & how to harvest asparagus
  • How much asparagus to plant per person
  • How to grow asparagus in less space
  • How to protect fruit trees from frost damage
  • When to pick pickling cucumbers
  • Mara des Bois strawberries: a little berry with big flavor
  • How to grow corn in your home garden
  • How much corn to plant to person
  • Where to buy herb plants online
  • How to grow nasturtium for the prettiest edible plant in your garden
  • How to protect fruit trees from the 2024 cicadas
  • Javid's Iranian Almond: a cold hardy tree for the Northeast & Midwest
  • What is the best type of corn to grow?

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About the Food Geek

Welcome, I'm Veronica, your resident food geek - experienced recipe developer and gardener. My goal is to help you enjoy eating at home by knowing what fruits & vegetables are currently in season and the best ways to use them. To do that, I've put together seasonal produce guides and recipes with practical advice.

More about me

January image with citrus fruits
Seed packets from Territorial seed company

The best (and cheapest) places to buy seeds

Printed book - how to grow asparagus

On sale now for $3.99: my ultimate guide on growing asparagus


Popular recipes

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    Banana pecan muffins (extra nutty!)
  • A recipe for soft and chewy peanut butter blossom cookies.
    Soft & chewy peanut butter blossoms
  • Maple pecan cookies cut out in a star shape for Christmas, on top of a pile of fresh pecans
    Maple pecan cookies (with real maple syrup)
  • Pork jagerschnitzel covered in a mushroom gravy
    Jägerschnitzel (pork schnitzel & mushroom gravy)
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