Growing Guides

Flame is an indeterminate salad tomato that lights up the garden with small, round fruit in a glowing orange, often flushed with a bicolor blush. The vining plant grows tall and produces steadily all season, giving you a generous supply...

Caribe is a red slicing tomato bred for heat and humidity tolerance, thriving in tropical and subtropical gardens where standard varieties struggle to set fruit. It grows as a tall indeterminate vine and keeps producing round, smooth, medium-sized red tomatoes...

Cape gooseberry, also called ground cherry, is the sweet side of the husk-fruit family. Each papery lantern hides a golden-orange berry with a bright, sweet-tart flavor that many compare to pineapple and mango, delicious eaten fresh or cooked into jam....

White Beefsteak is a striking heirloom slicer that ripens to a soft, creamy ivory instead of the usual red. It is an indeterminate (vining) tomato that grows tall and keeps producing all season, so it needs staking or caging and...

Amana Orange is a famous heirloom known for its enormous, brilliant bright-orange beefsteak fruit, often a pound or more each. It is an indeterminate (vining) tomato that grows tall and keeps setting fruit all season, so it needs strong staking...

Endive (Cichorium endivia) is a family of cool-season chicories grown for tender, faintly bitter salad greens. It comes in two main forms: curled or frisee types, like Green Curled Ruffec, with frilly, finely cut leaves in a wide, lacy rosette,...

Radicchio (Cichorium intybus var. foliosum) is a leaf chicory grown for its tight, burgundy-red heads streaked with white veins. It looks like a small red cabbage but belongs to the same family as endive and dandelion, which is where its...

Garden cress (Lepidium sativum), the frilly curled kind sold as curled cress, is about the fastest, most beginner-friendly crop you can grow. Seeds sprout within a day or two, and you are snipping peppery green leaves in roughly a week,...

Mizuna (Brassica rapa var. niposinica) is a Japanese mustard green with feathery, deeply cut leaves and a mild, gently peppery flavor. It is one of the fastest, easiest greens you can grow: baby leaves are ready in about three weeks,...