Beets do double-duty in the kitchen, producing tasty roots for canning, roasting, or boiling and fresh greens for salads, soups, and sautéing. Beets can be planted as spring and fall crops. Here are tips for growing beets plus types of beets to consider adding to your vegetable garden. Honestly, it took a while until I…
Fall Gardening
How to Grow an Indoor Garden
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Whether you are craving fresh harvests during the winter or live in an area without gardening space, you can grow edibles in your own indoor garden. Winter always seems to sneak up on me. It’s not until the first snowfall that I consider the growing season over. Up until then, I am still clipping hearty…
Grow Herbs Indoors: 5 Herbs that Thrive Inside
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Even if you don’t have outdoor gardening space, there are plenty of herbs that you can grow indoors successfully on a sunny windowsill. If you do grow herbs in your garden, fall is a great time to think about starting an indoor windowsill herb garden to grow herbs indoors so you can enjoy their fresh…
13 Quick Growing Vegetables for Your Fall Garden
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Instead of watching your summer crops struggle to ripen the last few fruits, pull them out and plant some of these quick growing vegetables for your fall garden. The vegetable garden shines in summer with abundant harvests. As fall approaches, most of the summer crops begin to wind down. Cooler nighttime temperatures and diminishing sunlight…
7 Tips for Growing Great Garlic
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With a little planning at planting time, garlic is one of the most trouble-free crops you can grow in the garden. Here are some tips for growing garlic. Why Grow Garlic? More Variety: There are more than 200 cultivars of garlic available in from seed catalogs and farmers’ markets in the United States. Only two…
How to Save Bean Seeds to Plant Next Year
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Saving seeds from year to year is a good way to spare some money in the gardening budget, become more self-sufficient, and adapt a crop to your unique growing conditions. One of the easiest vegetables to begin with are open-pollinated, heirloom bean seeds. The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is a grain legume grown for its…
7 Tips to Prepare Your Vegetable Garden for Winter
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Taking the effort to clean up the vegetable garden beds in fall makes it very easy to begin growing the following spring. I have mixed emotions each autumn as the gardening season comes to a close. Since our growing season is short, there is usually a preserving marathon in September and most of my time…
Planting Garlic in the Fall
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Planting garlic in the fall is the last garden chores of the season. A small amount of preparation at planting time will give you an abundant garlic harvest without much effort. Garlic is one of the easiest crops you can grow in your garden. It is a long season crop with a unique growing pattern…