Fruit Vegetables

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Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and pumpkins are the stars of many summer vegetable beds, and this is the place to learn how to grow them well. Variety guides help you pick heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins and rhubarb for your garden and explain which popular crops belong to the nightshade family. Scarlet runner beans get special attention, from sowing indoors and planting out to harvesting, drying the beans and the question of whether they’re edible or purely ornamental.

Ants and black aphids on the stem and bud of a green-purple artichoke in the garden
Different pumpkins and squashes including pattypan and butternut on straw in an autumn garden
Wooden crate with different tomato varieties in red, brown and yellow on a garden table
Rhubarb plant with huge green leaves and thick red stalks in a vegetable bed
Various pumpkins and squashes on a weathered wooden table in an autumn vegetable garden
Large ribbed orange giant pumpkin on straw among big green leaves in a vegetable patch
Wooden crate with tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, chili peppers and potatoes in a garden
Round pale yellow lemon cucumbers ripening on a vine among large green leaves
Colorful heirloom tomatoes in red, yellow, purple and green on a wooden board
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