By Bill Camarillo August is the time to enjoy tasty homegrown vegetables and fruits, and take pleasure in the beauty of green plants, trees and flowering annuals. It’s also time to plan your fall and winter gardens. Pick Your Summer Vegetables: Even with a modest garden, summer vegetables are in abundance and ripening continuously in August. You may have run out of recipes for all your zucchini and squash, but pick...

By Sharon Sweeny As far as most gardeners are concerned, frost arrives too early in autumn and departs too late in spring. Most gardeners look for ways to start things growing outdoors in spring when the days turn warmer, even if temperatures dip below freezing at night. In autumn we try to find ways to keep things growing while the days are still warm, even as the nights become increasingly colder. Here are 5 things...

Home grown varieties have the best flavor. Most of the vegetables sold in markets and grown in vegetable gardens are well known. The last major introduction of new kinds of vegetables took place in the sixteenth century when Europeans began to arrive in the Western Hemisphere and returned to carrying seeds of white potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, corn, squash, and climbing beans, together with such plants as tobacco and...