If you're like many gardeners, you start perusing seed catalogs and dreaming of garden-grown tomatoes and peppers in early February or before. In fact, long before it's safe to plant these frost-tender vegetables. Unless, of course, you trick Mother Nature by manipulating growing … [Read more...]
Protecting Strawberries and Raspberries in Winter
Strawberries and raspberries are among the easiest fruits to grow in the home garden. Strawberries are productive for three to five years, while a well-tended raspberry patch may produce fruit for 15 to 20 years. Depending on the variety, strawberries and raspberries are cold … [Read more...]
How to Dry Basil
Most people are familiar with basil in its dried, crushed form. Some are familiar with it in its fresh form as well. So how do you get it from fresh to dried? It's not hard at all and requires no special tools or equipment. There are two options for drying basil: air drying and … [Read more...]
How to Build a Hot Bed or Cold Frame
Vegetable gardening is addictive and once bitten, many gardeners look for ways to expand their gardening enterprises beyond the traditional growing season. Enter the hot bed or cold frame. Through these simple structures, gardeners are able to propagate vegetable plants from seed … [Read more...]
Fast Growing Vegetables
Sometimes, you just don't want to wait for your veggies to grow. If you're growing indoors, or in a greenhouse with limited space, this is can be especially true. Sometimes, you just want to maximize your garden by growing fast veggies first and then planting slower growing ones … [Read more...]
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