Growing your own vegetables is a rewarding way to enjoy fresh, healthy produce right from your backyard. It allows you to control what goes into your food and can save money during the growing season. Many of our customers tell us that nothing beats the taste and satisfaction of harvesting vegetables they’ve grown themselves. Whether it’s crisp lettuce, juicy tomatoes, or sweet carrots, homegrown always seems to taste better.
Tomatoes
Once upon a time, people thought tomatoes were poisonous. It is true that they are members of the nightshade family, but summer and tomatoes simply go together. Tomatoes range from big, fat, juicy beefsteaks to meaty, oval-shaped Roma tomatoes to cherry and grape tomatoes perfect to eat whole or give little pops of color to a salad. Like most veggies, tomatoes adore full sun.
Cucumbers
Cucumbers are among the easiest vegetable plants to grow. Some people think they’re too easy, for when the plants start to bear they don’t know what to do with all the fruit. Unlike squash, even a cucumber that’s been overlooked in the patch and has grown to the size of a melon retains its sweetness. Cucumbers can be the long slicing type, the shorter pickling type or small and sweet, with thin skins. There are also Asian cucumbers that are best grown on a trellis, since they grow very long and straight.
Green Beans
Though beans have been bred to no longer have strings, they too are an easy crop. They can be bush beans or pole beans and can be green, waxy yellow, very long asparagus beans or beans with red or purple pods whose beans are allowed to grow large before they are dried.
Nestled in the heart of Maynard, MN, the L&E Greenhouse stands as a vibrant oasis for plant enthusiasts and nature lovers alike.
Contact Info
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Address: 800 Cynthia St
Maynard, MN 56260 -
Phone: (320) 368-3697
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Opening hours Mon-Sat: 9AM – 6PM