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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.

 

  • Seed picks for my 2025 garden
  • Best varieties to grow for sun-dried tomatoes (from garden trials)
  • Growing butternut squash on a trellis
  • The best pickling cucumbers (for crisp pickles!)
  • The best asparagus varieties for your region
  • The best & cheapest sources for vegetable seeds in 2025
  • When & how to harvest asparagus
  • How much asparagus to plant per person
  • How to grow asparagus for beginners (with pictures!)
  • How to grow asparagus in less space
  • How to protect fruit trees from frost damage
  • My new favorite seed starting supplies
  • When to pick pickling cucumbers
  • When to harvest butternut squash: ripening stages
  • 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

Strawberries in baskets on a farm, with text May produce guide & recipes
Strawberry rhubarb bars with fresh rhubarb and strawberries in the foreground

Strawberry rhubarb oatmeal bars

A book on growing asparagus in your home garden

Get my new book, on sale during spring planting season!


Popular recipes

  • Roasted strawberries in their own sauce
    Roasted strawberries (for better flavor)
  • Eggs Benedict with asparagus, deli ham, and a fried over easy egg that was easy and quick to make. Set on a wood cutting board backdrop.
    Shortcut eggs Benedict with asparagus
  • Blueberry syrup in a jar, on top of a pile of fresh blueberries.
    Blueberry syrup recipe (with canning instructions)
  • A dinner plate filled with Chinese chicken salad, mandarin oranges, shredded cabbage, and a sesame salad dressing.
    Chinese chicken salad with fresh mandarin oranges
See more Spring recipes →

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