Popcorn shoots — or microgreens — have a delicate sweet flavor. Grow them on a windowsill for fresh greens year round.
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Indoor Greens: The Edible Sweet Potato Vine for a Winter Harvest
The edible sweet potato vine provides winter greens when grown indoors during cold weather. For mid-winter fresh greens, sweet potato leaves can’t be beat.
Growing Rosemary: A Multi-Purpose Plant with Bold Flavor
If you love the bold flavor of rosemary in your meals, consider growing rosemary in your garden! It’s drought tolerant, tasty, and beautiful.
Growing Milkweed to Help Monarch Butterflies
Consider growing milkweed to encourage butterflies to take up residence in your garden!
Growing Arugula for Gourmet Greens
Arugula is a type of easy-to-grow leafy salad green that adds a slight peppery kick to salads and mesclun mixes.
Gardening Gift Ideas to Fit Any Budget
Want to treat your favorite gardener to something that’s just perfect for them? These gardening gifts will get them growing, and with a range of prices.
Take Time to Grow Brussels Sprouts
Looking for a fun new veggie to add to the garden? Try growing Brussels sprouts! They’re fun to watch grow and make a delicious harvest.
Propagating Rosemary from Cuttings
Add some flavor to your garden by propagating rosemary plants. It’s easy and a great way to add more plants to your herb garden for free!
Growing Dill in the Home Garden
Dill is an attractive and aromatic plant to grow in a garden. Feathery-like foliage is used for flavoring and large, umbrella-like flower heads produce dill seeds.
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author and certified Master Food Preserver, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
I’m thrilled that my book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (National Geographic Books) was awarded the best how-to book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Here at Attainable Sustainable, I aim to encourage readers — that’s you! — to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
Limited on space? Don’t let that keep you from growing some of your own food! In my 5-Gallon Garden course, I’ll show you how to grow food in the space you have! Learn more about it here.
