How to Grow Corn in Your Home Garden
Sweet corn roasted on a grill and rolled in butter is one of those irreplaceable tastes of summer, and nothing beats sweet corn straight out of the garden! If you’re...
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How to Grow Big Sweet Potatoes: Soil, Spacing, and Yield Tips
Learning how to grow sweet potatoes successfully comes down to understanding how sweet potatoes grow. This crop is in the morning glory family - a vining, often tenacious plant, that...
The Different Types of Cabbage: Napa, Savoy & More
Cabbage is a wonderful cool-season crop for gardeners who want abundant and versatile greens. All sorts of cabbage can be great for adding crunch to dishes, sauteing, roasting, and pickling....
How to Grow Green Onions | Grow Scallions from Seed
Green onions, aka scallions or bunching onions, make a great flavor addition and garnish for just about any dish. Once you start growing your own at home, you’ll wonder why...
How to Grow Spinach | Planting, Harvesting & Storing
Spinach is one of the fastest-growing, most vitamin-packed crops you can grow at home, and it seems like you can throw it in just about any dish! Read on to...
Taking this Home Soil Test for a Test Drive
We were so excited to discover these home soil test kits! The idea that you can test for nutrient deficiencies and pH levels in your very own home without...
Need a Local Gardening Expert? Find Your Cooperative Extension Agent!
What is a Cooperative Extension Service? If you’ve read some of our garden blog posts, or talked with our customer service reps, you’ve probably heard the advice “contact your local...
The Different Types of Peas Explained for Home Gardeners
So you want to try your hand at growing peas in your garden, but when you go to buy seeds, there are so many options! How to choose? Peas are...
The Different Kinds of Radish | Best Varieties to Grow at Home
Radishes are one of the quickest and easiest vegetables to grow at home. They’re super nutritious too, and very productive! Many people don’t know the whole radish plant is edible,...
How to Grow Broccoli in Your Home Garden
Broccoli is a delicious, nutritional-powerhouse vegetable that’s hard to beat. It is a member of the cabbage family (Brassicaceae) but unlike cabbage, it is eaten for its flower heads and...
Indoor Seed Starting 101
Starting seeds at home is a fulfilling part of getting your garden started on the right foot! When you grow your own transplants you: Get precise plantings with less seed...
The Allure and History of Appalachian Beans
It happens to even the best gardeners. After a long, hot summer season we give up on weeding and watering and only go out to the garden occasionally to grab...
The Pollinators You Haven't Met Yet
From the buzzing bee to the gliding butterfly, pollinators are indispensable to our environments, gardens, and homes. Pollinating insects and animals travel from plant to plant carrying pollen on their...
When Can I Eat My Veggies? Harvesting How-To
Harvesting the veggies in your garden is probably the most exciting part of the process. You’ve worked all season for your beautiful veggies and you can’t wait to bring them...
Integrative Methods of Pest Control
We all know the feeling of dread that arises as mid-summer creeps in. Just as we’re getting the hang of things and our gardens are thriving- here come the bugs....
Grow Your Own Bouquet: Cut Flower Gardens
When high summer arrives, the abundant beauty of our flower gardens can spill inside our houses too. Sow True Seed sells many easy to grow flowers. Flowers don't just add...
How to Grow Turmeric
All About Turmeric (Cucurma longa) Turmeric is a rhizomatous plant in the Zingiberaceae family, which is just the fancy Latin way of saying that it’s related to ginger. It is...