If you're heading to the nursery right now to buy cucumber or zucchini transplants, stop. The plants sitting in those little plastic pots will almost certainly underperform the seeds you could drop ...

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Sweet Genovese is great for pesto, purple basil is sweet, Thai basil is intense, British basil is hardy … This is a good month to grow your own It wasn’t the best spring for growing edible plants – at ...

Basil is one of the flavours of summer, and an essential herb in the home garden. Provided it’s warm enough, it’s easy to grow and quick to crop, plus just a few plants will produce plenty of ...

If your yard gets full sun or reaches high temps, then this heat-tolerant herb will be right at home. Once it flowers, you'll ...