These simple covered hoops serve a multitude of uses in the garden. Because we have such a short growing season at Beekman 1802, we have to give our seedlings every...

Climbing towards the sun. Many of our favorite vegetables in the Beekman Heirloom Vegetable Garden require some sort of trellising – tomatoes, beans, peas,...

Cucumber THE CUCUMBER IS A FRUIT, NOT A VEGETABLE. It belongs to the same family as gourds, melons, and squash.  They are high in nutrients (potassium, magnesium,...

LAST YEAR WAS A HORRIBLE YEAR FOR OUR CUKES. We barely harvested enough for a half dozen jars of pickles. What went wrong? Hard to say. We were hit with a heavy...