Like many vegetables and fruits, cucumbers always taste better when they’re homegrown. Growing cucumbers in containers are easy and hugely rewarding, provided you grow the right variety. But there are a few things that are helpful to know. Container Size As is true with growing most vegetables and fruits in pots, bigger is much better. Bigger containers (12…

Lychee may be a tropical broadleaf evergreen tree native to China, where it grows during a warm, wet climate. Although grown commercially for its fruit, in landscapes it’s often used as a tree or a specimen angiospermous tree . The tree bears small, dimpled, fleshy fruit with a light-weight , perfumed flavor. the surface of the fruit features a rough, pink-red skin that’s inedible and therefore the inside flesh is obvious to white and sweet. The brown…

Cranberries aren’t hard to grow. they are doing require cool temperatures, acidic soil, and many of water. The cranberry may be a low, creeping, evergreen shrub, almost a vine. it’s a woody stem that runs along the bottom . Stems can grow 6 or 8 feet long. Upright shoots grow from the stems. Berries form at the highest of the shoots from pink flowers. Cranberry fruit is little and tart. The…

Fresh broccoli is one among the highlights of the kitchen garden , growing crisp and delicious within the chilly temperatures of early spring and fall. Nowadays, I can’t remember why I disliked broccoli as a child , but i think it had been its kinship to cabbage and mustards – and distinctive sharp flavor – that was an excessive amount of for a young veggie skeptic. Thankfully, I…