GYO Fruits and Vegetables

There’s nothing more satisfying than growing your own food, and we can help you do that. Follow our tips and tricks for bountiful yields in the veggie patch!

Growing Hydroponics Lettuce: Cheap DIY

Tammy Clayton

A few weeks ago I started an experimental grow without any fancy equipment. No discount storage boxes or bins. I’m using recycled coffee tubs. This is really cheap hydroponics, DIY setups that anyone can handle making. Aside from the seed, I think I have about $1 invested per plant. No, I’m not using a grow light, because…

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Extend Your Harvest’s Freshness

Garden fresh goodness is fleeting, though your homegrown produce will outlast anything you buy at the grocery store. What if you could extend the shelf life of the fruits and veggies you grow without freezing and canning it all? There’s this stuff called FreshPaper that can make that possible. People who shop at Whole Foods,…
March 28, 2015
Amber

How To Grow Better Potatoes

Urban gardening enthusiasts find all kinds of ways to grow food, but not every container and method gives you awesome results. This is especially true with veggie plants that have large root systems, which potato plants do. But they need depth more than they do room to spread, so there’s a trend for growing potatoes…
March 20, 2015
Callie

How To Extend Veggie Garden Harvests

In many growing zones garden fresh goodness will end in just a few weeks, but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are some fast-growing veggies that you can plant now and likely harvest before frost and frigid weather arrives. Unlike trying to resow rapid harvest crops in mid-summer, the cooler temperatures as we…
September 6, 2014
Amber

Growing Eggplant Indoors

Brinjal, aubergine, garden egg… whatever it’s called where you are, enjoying fresh, the homegrown flavor is quite likely a big challenge. If you love this vegetable, you will probably be interested in understanding what growing eggplants indoors requires. If you succeed, you can enjoy fresh eggplant from the same plant for a year. [clickToTweet tweet=”Grow…
March 14, 2014
Amber

How To Grow Huge Strawberries

The size of the berries in your harvest aren’t just the results of the fertilizers you use, how rich your garden soil is, or some special hydroponic nute concoction. Nor is it always the variety you’ve chosen to grow, though this is an important part of growing really big strawberries. The thing is, you can’t…
February 8, 2014
Tammy Clayton