Renee's Blog

Harvesting Celeriac (a.k.a. Celery Root)

Celeriac is a European staple that's gaining popularity in U.S., Lindsay Del Carlo guides viewers on when to harvest this delicious root vegetable.

How And Why To Thin Carrots

Lindsay shares her tips for abundant carrot harvests by explaining how and why to thin twice.

Cutting Zinnias For Bouquets

Make beautiful zinnia bouquets and regrow more flowers by following tips from Lindsay Del Carlo, Trial Garden Manager. Shop For Zinnias Now

Cutting Basil For Lasting Harvests

Lindsay shares her expert techniques for extending basil growing season.

When To Harvest Your Sweet Corn

How to tell when sweet corn is ready for harvest with Lindsay.

When and How to Harvest Winter Squash

Lindsay shows how to harvest, store and cook winter squashes.

Harvesting and Drying Onions

Lindsay demonstrates how to harvest, dry, and store onions.

Harvesting and Storing Dried Beans

Learn how to harvest, winnow and store your Heirloom Cannellini Bush Beans.

Visit Renee's Trial Garden with P. Allen Smith

Renee and P Allen Smith discuss why they garden and visit Renee's trial garden to show a wide variety of salads and demonstrate how to grow delicious baby leaf mesclun mix from seed.

Selecting Edible Flowers

Renee discusses the many different edible flowers you can grow from seed and how to use them in everyday cooking. Moving to the kitchen, she makes delicious, colorful Herb & Flower Blossom Tea Sandwiches.

How to Start and Grow Sweet Peas

Unique types of sweet peas and how to grow them!

Incorporating a Cover Crop: Method #3

How To Sow Baby Kale For Endless Salads

Lindsay Del Carlo, Trial Garden Manager, shows how to prepare the garden bed and sow baby kale.

Harvesting Baby Kale For Endless Salads

Lindsay Del Carlo, Trial Garden Manager, demonstrates how to cut baby kale for salad.

Flowers For Cutting

Renee and P Allen Smith demo the many wonderful heirloom and cottage garden flowers for bouquets in Renee's own garden including Cosmos, Bishop's Lace, Devil's Tongue, Nigella, Larkspur, and a myriad of Morning Glories.

Color Drenched Zinnias

Renee introduces the many colors and forms of zinnias you can grow from seed in your garden, attracting butterflies and providing summer long bouquets.

Romantic Cosmos & Color Drenched Zinnias

Renee introduces the many beautiful colors and forms of easy to grow cosmos, attracting butterflies and providing summer long bouquets.

Easy Growing From Seed

Renee demonstrates sowing seeds, tending your seedlings and enjoying the harvest.

Grow Baby Leaf Mesclun Lettuce

Renee demonstrates how to have great success growing baby leaf mesclun "spring mix" lettuces and greens from seed: how to sow seeds using the "cut and come again" method, tend seedlings, harvest so you get a second crop, and then...

Growing Great Scented Sweet Peas II

Renee discusses all the beautiful colors and forms of wonderfully fragrant heirloom sweet peas and how to grow them successfully and in abundance in your home garden.

Growing Fabulous Fragrant Sweet Peas

Renee shows you how to reliably grow armfuls of heavenly scented sweet peas from seed. Includes detailed planting tips for getting great germination, growing and training your twining vines, and how to get the best long blooming bouquets of blossoms.

Growing Your Endless Bouquet Garden

Lindsay Del Carlo shows how to prepare the bed, sow, thin, harvest and arrange your Endless Bouquet Flowers Scatter Garden.

Cooking And Growing With Fennel

Renee highlights the differences between growing bulbing fennel, the vegetable, and using the butterfly attracting herb, bronze fennel, in flavoring. Moving to the kitchen, she demonstrates making a delicious Fresh Fennel Salad with Oranges and Cashews.

Cooking With Fresh Basil

There are many different kinds of basil you can grow and enjoy from seed. Renee shares some of her fresh basil recipes: Pesto Basil Salad Dressing and Basil Leaf Vinegar.  

Harvesting and Saving Seeds

P. Allen Smith and Renee discuss saving seeds so you can enjoy them season after season.

Harvest and Prepare Loofah Sponges

Lindsay demonstrates how to harvest and prepare homegrown loofah sponges.

Grow "Cut and Come Again" Mesclun Lettuce

Renee demonstrates how to plant your bountiful cut-and-come-again lettuce harvest. It's easy to grow your own diverse and delicious salads from seeds.