Category: Plant Profiles

  • Smart Tips for Growing Broccoli

    Broccoli is a wonderful vegetable to grow in your garden. It’s hard to beat the tender sweetness of a head of broccoli cooked just minutes after being harvested. It’s one of the easiest plants to put in for an early spring garden, and does well as a late season crop. It grows quickly, doesn’t require […]

  • Growing Kale: Leaves of kale in a garden, with text "Growing: Kale" and the Smart Gardener logo

    Smart Tips for Growing Kale

    Kale is a hearty, nutritious plant that is easy to grow and perfect for every garden. There’s a reason kale is so popular with the health food crowd: It’s chock full of nutrients. Whether you’re putting it in smoothies, making chips, cooking it in stews or massaging it salads, the uses for kale are nearly […]

  • Tips for Growing Spinach

    Spinach is an easy and fast plant to grow for garden-fresh salads. Other greens may get all the attention, but spinach is more than just a cartoon gimmick. It’s full of iron and calcium, as well as a wealth of antioxidants. And it’s super easy to grow! Below we have some tips for growing spinach […]

  • Strawberries

    Strawberries are easy-to-grow plants that deserve a space in every garden. Nothing compares to the taste of homegrown strawberries — the sweetness is like the taste of summer. Just as garden-fresh tomatoes beat the flavor of supermarket tomatoes, the strawberries you grow in your garden will be sweeter, juicier, and more tender than anything the […]

  • Sugar Snap Peas

    Have you considered growing peas? Looking for something to feed your sweet tooth, straight from the garden? Look no further than the Sugar Snap pea. There’s a reason they’re called “garden candy.” The Sugar Snap is actually a relative newcomer to the garden (first introduced in 1979), but it is now established as one of […]