Swiss chard is a beautiful plant to grow and cook. Both the stems and the leaves are delicious. Swiss Chard is a fast-growing crop. Baby leaves can be harvested at 30 days and 60 days for bunching.
Grow Delicious Cabbage in USDA Zone 6
Growing Cucumbers in Zone 6B
Cucumbers are a refreshing treat from the garden on warm days; they are delicious for snacking or as an addition to salads and drinks. You can also use cucumbers to make pickles, which are a great way to preserve a harvest.
Cucumbers make a valuable addition to any garden and are easy to grow once you learn how. This guide answers all your questions.
Growing Green Beans in Zone 6
Growing Blueberries in Zone 6: A Complete Guide
Growing Tomatoes in Zone 6B: Complete Guide
Homegrown tomatoes are the ultimate in taste and texture. So much better than the cardboard grocery knockoff ones. Tomatoes need some care but are easy to grow and productive, saving you lots of money.
This is a complete guide to types and varieties that do well in Zone 6B, how to choose tomatoes, and how to grow your tomatoes from seed.
Growing Lettuce In Zone 6B
Growing Apples in Zone 6B
Growing Fruit Trees in Zone 6B
Building and Using Cold Frames to Extend Your Harvest
Imagine a snowy day in December. You go out to the garden, uncover the cold frame, and pick some nice fresh greens for dinner. This is something I do in my USDA Zone 6 garden.
Cold Frames are a great way to extend your harvest. They’re easy and cheap to build and give a lot back for the money. Cold frames allow you to eat fresh food for a longer period of time.
Planning For Perennials Zone 6B
Perennials will add a great deal of variety to your garden plan. These plants live for several years or more. I always tell my students to plant perennials first.
Perennial fruits, vegetables, and herbs will make a considerable impact towards self-sufficiency goals and your food security. They are also beautiful landscape plants.
Strawberries Zone 6B Growing and Using
What is the best thing about June? Fresh strawberries, of course! Strawberries are easy to grow and provide an excellent yield for the amount of space.
In addition to the fantastic taste, strawberries have many great qualities. They are the first fruit of the season and the quickest fruit to produce from planting to eating. Strawberries are also very nutritious and are loaded with vitamin C and antioxidants.
Root Crops in Zone 6B - Growing and Using
Root crops often get overlooked in the plumage of greens and the bliss of fresh tomatoes. Crops such as beets, carrots, radishes, and turnips may not make our top ten list of yummy things to plant.
However, they are wonderful to grow for fresh eating and for storage. Working on becoming self-sufficient? Expand your culinary tastes with some of my favorite root crop recipes at the end of this article.
Growers in USDA Zone 6b often feel challenged by root crops. Clay soil, spring downpours, and summer humidity all seem to challenge these root crops. You can overcome these challenges and grow healthy abundant crops.
Broccoli: Growing and Cooking in Zone 6
My Planting Schedule Zone 6b
Planting schedules can be tricky. You need to understand and be watching climate patterns and weather in your area. It’s important to know the days to maturity of the plants and what type of weather do they grow well in. I live in Kentucky. Zone 6b. Zone Six covers a large section of the country including parts of New England, Pennslyvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, across Kansas, and into the Rocky Mountain states.