Vegetable gardening
32 crop pages for US backyard gardens. Tomato and pepper guides are the most complete. The rest are practical overviews with spacing, soil, and water — not empty stubs.
Fruiting crops
Tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans, and other crops grown for fruit or pods.
- Full guideTomatoesHow to grow tomatoes in raised beds: spacing, soil, watering, planting depth, harvest timing, and common problems.
- Full guidePeppersHow to grow bell and hot peppers in raised beds: spacing, warmth, soil, watering, and common problems.
- OverviewCucumbersCucumber spacing, trellising, soil, and watering for raised beds.
- OverviewZucchiniGrowing zucchini in raised beds: spacing, powdery mildew, pollination, and watering.
- OverviewEggplantHow to grow eggplant in raised beds: warmth, spacing, watering, and flea beetle pressure.
- OverviewBeansBush and pole beans in raised beds: spacing, nitrogen, trellising, and harvest timing.
- OverviewPeasGrow peas in raised beds: cool-season timing, trellis spacing, and why they fail in heat.
- OverviewOkraGrowing okra in raised beds: heat, spacing, harvest size, and why it sulks in cool springs.
- OverviewWinter squashButternut and other winter squash in raised beds: space, trellising, and why one plant is enough.
- OverviewCornSweet corn in backyard gardens: why it needs a block for pollination, and why a single raised bed is a weak fit.
Leafy greens & brassicas
Lettuce, kale, spinach, broccoli, and other cool-season leaves and heads.
- OverviewLettuceGrow lettuce in raised beds: spacing, cool-season timing, soil, and watering.
- OverviewKaleGrowing kale in raised beds: spacing, frost, watering, and cabbage worm pressure.
- OverviewSpinachGrow spinach in raised beds: cool soil, tight spacing, and why it bolts in heat.
- OverviewSwiss chardGrowing Swiss chard in raised beds: spacing, heat tolerance, and cut-and-come-again harvest.
- OverviewBroccoliGrowing broccoli in raised beds: cool weather, 18-inch spacing, and side-shoot harvest.
- OverviewCabbageHow to grow cabbage in raised beds: spacing by head size, watering, and split heads.
- OverviewCauliflowerGrowing cauliflower in raised beds: why it is fussier than broccoli, blanching, and heat.
- OverviewArugulaGrow arugula in raised beds: fast harvest, tight spacing, and heat bitterness.
- OverviewCollard greensGrowing collard greens in raised beds: spacing, Southern seasons, and frost flavor.
Roots & alliums
Carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic, and other underground or bulb crops.
- OverviewCarrotsCarrot spacing, soil depth, and watering for straight roots in raised beds.
- OverviewRadishesFast radish crops in raised beds: spacing, soil, and why they get pithy or all tops.
- OverviewBeetsGrowing beets in raised beds: thinning, soil depth, and using both roots and greens.
- OverviewOnionsGrowing onions in raised beds: sets vs plants, spacing, day length, and watering.
- OverviewGarlicGrowing garlic in raised beds: fall planting, spacing, watering, and harvest timing.
- OverviewPotatoesGrowing potatoes in raised beds: seed pieces, hilling, soil depth, and watering.
- OverviewSweet potatoesGrowing sweet potatoes in raised beds: slips, heat, spacing, and curing.
- OverviewTurnipsGrowing turnips in raised beds: fast roots, greens, spacing, and cool-season timing.
Herbs
Culinary herbs that earn a square or two at the edge of a vegetable bed.
Perennials
Crops that stay in the bed more than one season.
Crop photos from Wikimedia Commons (credited in site image metadata).
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