How to Grow Ramps
There’s a kind of craze that spreads when spring comes along over a little plant known colloquially as ramps or spring onions. There is just something about the thick,...
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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...
Growing Creasy Greens: A Guide to Your New Garden Favorite
What are Creasy Greens? Creasy greens (Barbarea verna), which go by many names including highland cress, upland cress, and early yellow rocket are part of the Brassica family. “Brassicas you...
How Do I Use Cover Crops?
You’ve definitely heard the phrase and maybe even taken it for a spin but do you really understand the depth of the role that cover crops play in our gardening...
Growing Groundnuts
Groundnuts (Apios americana) are a vining, nitrogen fixing legume that you don’t even know you need yet! This tuber has been found in indigenous diets from Canada to the Gulf...
How to Plant and Grow Zinnia Flowers from Seed
If you want to add a pop of color to your summer garden, you can’t go wrong with zinnias! These easy-to-grow flowers come in a rainbow of colors and all...
THE Official Sow True Seed Soil Amendment Cheat Sheet
Soil amendments fall into three broad categories: fertilizers, soil conditioners, and biostimulants. Fertilizers provide one or more of the major plant nutrients, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. The three numbers on...
How to Plant and Grow Cucumbers at Home
Cucumbers make a great summertime snack, whether they’re eaten fresh from the garden, added to a salad, or made into homemade pickles. And, they’re easy to grow at home, even...
How to Grow Peas: A Delicious & Beginner-Friendly Crop
Peas are one of the easiest and most rewarding crops to grow in your home garden. The vines are forgiving of less than ideal weather and soil conditions, don’t hog...
How to Grow Watermelons
Watermelon is one of those crops that, once you grow it at home, the store-bought version forever pales in comparison. Some backyard gardeners shy away from growing watermelon because of...
10 Delectable Watermelon Varieties to Grow in Your Backyard
Watermelon is the taste of summer itself, and there’s nothing more satisfying than finally slicing into a perfectly ripe melon that you’ve lovingly tended all season long. Watermelons come in...
Winter Gardening: The Best Vegetables to Grow in Cold Weather
The arrival of cold weather doesn’t have to mean the end of your gardening season! With a little planning and the right tools, you can extend your growing season...
How to Preserve your Squash Harvest: Alternatives to Canning
Every seasoned gardener knows the feeling - you’re so excited for your summer squash plants to start producing, and then two weeks later, you’ve eaten zucchini in every possible form...
10 Types of Peppers You Can Grow at Home
We love peppers here at Sow True Seed. All of the different color combinations and shapes and sizes make for endless opportunities - beautiful dishes with thin, long slices of...
The Home Gardener's Guide to Growing Tomatoes from Seed
If you’ve been gardening for a while, you’ve probably grown tomatoes from starts purchased from a nursery or hardware store. Starting your own tomato seeds indoors might seem a little...
The Different Types of Tomatoes: Choosing the Best Varieties for Your Home Garden
Many people grow tomatoes from starts purchased at a hardware store or nursery, which is great for convenience, but gives you only a few varieties to pick from. One good...
A Grower’s Guide to the Different Types of Garlic
You’ve weathered the spring frosts, babied your seedlings and transplants, battled the weeds and the bugs and the heat, and with any luck, by late summer the bounty is rolling...