How to Preserve Herbs From the Garden: Freeze or Dry
Freezing and drying a balcony herb harvest, with the extension-published temperatures, times and storage windows, and how to save a handful at a time.
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Tomatoes Not Ripening in Pots? What to Do Now
Why container tomatoes stall at green late in the season, which fruit will still ripen indoors, and the one move a pot lets you make that a garden bed does not.
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Why Did My Lettuce Bolt? Bolted, Bitter or Woody, and What to Do
It went tall and tastes horrible. What bolting is, why bitterness follows it, and the one check that tells you whether a pot is finished or still worth eating.
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Cut and Come Again Lettuce: Weeks of Salad From One Pot
How to harvest cut and come again lettuce so it regrows: where the growing point is, which cut to make, and how many pickings one pot honestly gives.