Vegetables for the Home Garden

Learn how to plan a vegetable garden, prepare the soil, select the best crops for success, and care for them.

How to start a vegetable garden

• How to Start a Vegetable Garden - 6 Basic Steps / 6 Pasos Básicos Para Empezar o Plantar un Huerto Vegetal
• Growing Vegetables in Containers / Cultivar Hortalizas en Macetas
• Raised Beds for Vegetable Gardening / Construcción de Camas Elevadas Para un Huerto
• Types of Vegetable Gardens / Tipos de Huertos
• Healthy Gardens, Healthy You Toolkit

Soil preparation and improving soil

• Soil Testing Information
• Lead in Garden Soils
• Lawn (Turfgrass) Removal Methods
• Cover Crops
• How to Make Compost at Home
• Indoor Worm Composting or Vermicomposting
• Organic Matter and Soil Amendments
• Soil Health, Drainage, and Improving
• Soil to Fill Raised Beds

Vegetables to grow and how to plant them

• Vegetables Grown in Maryland
• When to Plant Vegetables
• Starting Seeds Indoors
• Hardening Off Vegetable Seedlings
• Planting Vegetables
• Sowing Vegetable Seeds in the Garden
• Planting Vegetables in Succession

Maintaining a vegetable garden

• Fertilizing and Caring for Your Vegetable Garden
• Extending the Vegetable Growing Season
• Row Cover

Vegetable problems

• Select the Vegetable you're growing to view the common problems
• Problems with Vegetable Seedlings and Transplants
• Vegetable Diseases
• Vegetable Problems Caused by Insects
• Vegetable Problems Caused by Nonliving Factors
• Vegetable Problems Caused by Wildlife
• (PDF) Don't Eat Those Wild Mushrooms-Unless you Know What you are Doing | University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension