Watermelon Growing Guide
Learn how to grow sweet, juicy watermelons in your home garden. This guide covers planting, spacing, watering, fertilizing, and harvesting tips so you can enjoy a successful summer melon harvest.
Growing Guides / Fruits
Cucumber Growing Guide
Learn how to grow crisp, productive cucumbers with this complete guide. Covers planting, spacing, watering, and harvesting—plus tips for choosing slicing or pickling varieties.
Strawberry Growing Guide
Learn to grow strawberry plants at home with Grow HOSS! Proper planting techniques, when to plant your strawberries, and more
Sweet Potato Growing Guide
Sweet potatoes are a root vegetable that is packed with nutrition. Sweet potatoes are typically a reddish–brown color on the outside and a pale yellow or orange on the inside. They usually have a long, tapered shape and can range in size from small to large. They are a good source of dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C...
Pumpkin Growing Guide
Pumpkins are a type of winter squash that belong to the Cucurbitaceae family. Pumpkins come in a variety of sizes, from small pie pumpkins to giant varieties that can weigh over 1,000 pounds. Their distinctive round shape and ribbed exterior make them a unique and recognizable vegetable...
Peanut Growing Guide
Peanuts were first brought to France and Africa from Brazil, and then later introduced into the U.S. during the 1700s. The first commercial peanuts were grown near Wilmington, NC about 1800. Contrary to popular belief, the peanut is not a nut. It’s actually a vegetable belonging to the legume family, which...
Lemon Drop Growing Guide
Lemon Drop, also known as spilanthes or the toothache plant, is a tropical perennial herb that flourishes in zones 10 and warmer, but it can also be grown as an annual. Spilanthes is native to Brazil and is now found throughout the world...
Roselle Growing Guide
What is Roselle? It’s a species of a flowering plant in the genus Hibiscus that goes by many other names, such as Red Sorrel, Florida Cranberry, Queensland jelly plant, and many others. Its native origins are from Central and West Africa and can/is grown all around the world. Roselle is a highly versatile plant that...
Passion Flower Growing Guide
Passion flower is native to the southeastern United States and Central and South America. It’s been traditionally used to help with sleep. Where they are hardy, passionflowers are usually trained on a trellis, fence, or other vertical structures. In regions where they are not hardy, passionflower plants are often grown in...
How To Grow Watermelons From Seed
Choosing the right watermelon to grow can get very technical and oftentimes confusing. Like most fruits and vegetables that can simply and easily be broken down into hybrid and open-pollinated, watermelons can bend, and sometimes...