Cooking with Herbs
Herbs are essential ingredients for flavoring and spicing up recipes all over the world. Without them, eating would be pretty boring. Herbs add flavor, character, and uniqueness to recipes. Used alone...
View ArticleVegetable Gardening at Home
Vegetable Gardening at Home Throughout most of human history the average person's daily life revolved around the search for food, and nearly every occupation related in one way or another to...
View ArticleEarly March For The Vegetable Gardener
This is the third article in a series by Sissy McKenzie, Behnke’s Beltsville Garden Center manager. (In February there was “Time to start your cool-season vegetables indoors” and then “Select your...
View ArticleIdeas for your Fall Vegetable Garden
With your summer vegetable garden still going strong, it's now time to begin your fall plantings, to continue the harvest into the cooler months. Perhaps you have used all available space for your...
View ArticleVegetables to Grow in Containers
by Susan Harris As a still-new-to-all-this vegetable gardener whose only good space to grow them is on the deck, I need help choosing the best varieties to grow in containers. Fortunately Marian...
View ArticleStarting your Vegetable Garden, with lots of Q&As
In late January Carol Allen talked to Behnkes customers about how to get their vegetable garden ready for the new season. Carol's an “honest-to-God horticulturist,” in her words, and avid organic...
View ArticlePersimmons, Figs, Pawpaws, Pomegranates and More
This year we’re seeing more interest than ever in growing fruit, so we asked Miri Talabac to share her tips with customers during our recent Spring Open House. Titled “Uncommon Fruits,” her talk...
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