Plant Growing Guides
In-depth, easy-to-follow guides for the most popular garden plants. Each one covers sunlight, water, soil, spacing, when to plant and harvest, the best USDA zones, and how difficult it is to grow.
27 guides and growing.
🥦 Vegetables
Tomatoes
The most popular home garden crop — warm-season, sun-loving, and endlessly rewarding.
Peppers
Heat-loving fruits, from sweet bells to fiery chilies, that reward patience with warmth.
Cucumbers
Fast, prolific vines that deliver crisp fruit all summer with steady water.
Zucchini & Summer Squash
Famously productive — one or two plants can feed a whole household.
Lettuce
The fastest, easiest cool-season green — perfect for succession sowing.
Spinach
Cold-hardy, nutrient-dense green that thrives in cool spring and fall weather.
Kale
Tough, cold-hardy leafy green that actually tastes sweeter after frost.
Carrots
Sweet roots that demand loose soil and patience but store beautifully.
Beans
Easy, fast, and soil-improving — a perfect crop for new gardeners.
Peas
The first crop of spring — sweet, cool-loving, and best eaten straight off the vine.
Broccoli
Cool-season brassica that needs steady cool weather to form tight heads.
Radishes
The fastest vegetable you can grow — ready in as little as three weeks.
Beets
Two crops in one — sweet roots below and nutritious greens above.
Garlic
Plant in fall, harvest next summer — one of the most low-maintenance crops.
Onions
Day-length-driven bulbs — choosing the right type for your latitude is everything.
Potatoes
Hill them up and harvest a hidden treasure — a satisfying, high-yield staple.
🌿 Herbs
Basil
The quintessential summer herb — warmth-loving, fragrant, and quick from seed.
Cilantro
Cool-season herb that gives leaves (cilantro) and seeds (coriander) from one plant.
Parsley
A hardy, productive biennial herb that tolerates cold and even partial shade.
Mint
Vigorous and nearly unkillable — just keep it contained or it takes over.
Rosemary
Drought-tolerant Mediterranean shrub — perennial in mild zones, a pot plant elsewhere.
Thyme
A tough, low-growing perennial herb that thrives on poor soil and neglect.
