An arrangement of many colorful zinnia flowers

How to Save Zinnia Seeds

Zinnias are easy to grow, prolific bloomers, a favorite of pollinators, and have a long vase life.

A white head of cauliflower surrounded by its leaves

Growing Guide: Cauliflower

Cauliflower is a biennial crop belonging to the species Brassica oleracea, and requires a generous amount of space in the garden, especially in its second year of growth. Start cauliflower seeds in early spring and overwinter the plants to save seeds the following year.

Three pale yellow ears of corn with the husks pealed back

How Tos

Corn Hand-Pollination

In absence of isolation, hand-pollination ensures that the corn plant’s flowers are not contaminated by pollen from another variety. Hand-pollination prevents hybridization and ensures that the plant produces seeds that are true-to-type.

A pile of orange-pink sweet potatoes of various shapes

Growing Guides

Growing Guide: Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes have significant cultural and culinary histories and uses across the globe. Growing sweet potatoes has very different requirements from growing potatoes.

Red radishes growing in a mulched bed with leafy green tops

How Tos

Everything You Need to Know About Radishes

Radishes are wonderfully diverse with many different colors, shapes and sizes! Spring and summer varieties can be pink, red, white, golden, or purple. They can be shaped like bulbs, be more elongated like fingers, or even taper like carrots.

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Recipes

Recipe: Fried Green Tomatoes

Featured at Seed Savers Exchange’s 2018 Tomato Tasting at Heritage Farm, this fried green tomatoes dish stars tart, unripe tomatoes.

A basket of long purple eggplant with a purple flower

Recipes

Recipe: Steamed Eggplant – Hunan Style

Steamed Eggplant – Hunan Style, from Eric Hsu, staff member at Chanticleer Garden, adapted from The Woks of Life. Steaming is not an approach many consider using when cooking eggplant, but the texture and consistency of the finished product is delectable and adaptable to the sauce below or simply being dressed with a little chili oil and soy sauce or miso.

Hundreds of bean seeds of a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors

Growing Guides

Growing Guide: Beans

Dependable and easy to grow, beans produce rewarding crops in gardens across the country.

A group of brussels sprouts on the stalk with leaves

Growing Guides

Growing Guide: Brussels Sprouts

These bite-sized greens are members of the species Brassica oleracea which includes broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and cabbage. They will flower and produce seeds in their second growing season after experiencing cold weather.

Growing Guides

Growing Guide: Cabbage

Cabbage varieties come in a spectrum of colors, from light green to dark purple. Sow cabbage seeds indoors 4-6 weeks before transplanting seedlings outdoors.