The Gardening Journal – Shade-Tolerant Vegetables

Container gardening for the fall! As we head into the cooler seasons, let’s look at container favorites we can rely on for color. Cabbages, kales and mustard greens are a great showstopper for highly and interest. We love pansies, or the more interesting trailing pansy for added color and don’t forget the tried and true violets. Snapdragons are another piece of winter interest that can bring both height and color to your container, as well as provide pollen for our bees. Tag us in your container

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Welcome back to Edible or Not! Today we're talking about prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola! To identify prickly lettuce, look for: ✅ Narrow, usually lobed leaves. ✅ Spines on leaf margin and midrib. ✅ small yellow ray flowers. ✅ Small, dandelion-like seed heads. ✅ Vertically oriented leaves. 👇 This wild lettuce often gets a bad wrap because of its bitter taste. There's a limited window to harvest these in the spring before they become bitter, but if you time it and look for plants growing in th

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Got a part-shade garden? There’s a lot more that you can grow than you might think! Try these plants, and comment SALAD to get my Salad Garden Guide to learn how to grow a shade-loving salad garden for the cool season. Lots of people think you need full sun to grow an amazing garden with lots of plant varieties, but that’s a myth. There are tons of great plants you can grow right now if you get just 4-6 hours of sunlight: Arugula Kale Lettuce Swiss chard Mustard greens Spinach Bush beans Peas Be