Growing Guides

A warm afternoon can make February feel like planting time. The soil may tell a different story. For bhindi, getting that first decision right is more...

Lifting an onion is satisfying. Finding it soft in the kitchen a few weeks later is less so. If you want to keep part of your...

Onions ask you to plan ahead. A tray of thin green seedlings in autumn is the beginning of a crop that will occupy its space for...

A few fresh palak leaves can go straight into dal, an omelette or a small pan of aloo palak. The useful question for a home gardener...

The first yellow flowers on a karela vine are worth a closer look. Some will supply pollen; others have the beginnings of a fruit underneath them....

You do not need a vegetable field to grow karela, but you do need to give the vine somewhere to go. On a balcony or in...