Your edible garden

How to grow delicious vegetables, herbs, and fruit at home

8 ways to use edibles as ornamentals

Planning your garden? Mix it up by choosing edibles in place of the usual suspects

Instead of an ordinary small evergreen tree
Photo by Thomas J. Story; written by Julie Chai

Instead of an ordinary small evergreen tree

Plant: A lemon tree for juice and zest year-round.

How to grow: Plant in spring after frost has passed but before summer heat kicks in. ‘Improved Meyer’ grows to 12 feet; on dwarf rootstock, it will be about half the standard height. Zones 8, 9, 12–24, H1, H2.


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