If you have an area in your basement that stays cool all winter long, you can make use of these cold spots to keep storage crops fresh well into winter. Try experimenting with growing some of these keeper crops for winter food storage. I’ve been gardening in one form or another all my life. I…
Spring Gardening
How to Grow a Salsa Garden
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If you love salsa in the summer, planning your garden around salsa ingredients is a smart idea. Here are tips to plant a salsa garden that will provide plenty of ingredients for fresh salsa all summer long. How to Plan Your Salsa Garden Select an area that receives at least 6 hours of sunlight a…
Growing Herbs: 7 Herbs to Start from Seed
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Growing herbs is easy because once the plants are established, they require very little maintenance and produce a generous supply for harvests as needed and enough to dry and fill your spice jars. Fresh herbs add delightful flavor and fragrance to foods. You can’t get any fresher than snipping leaves and springs from your own…
Planning Your Vegetable Garden: Seed Starting Schedule
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A seed-starting schedule provides a guideline of when to sow seeds and when to transplant seedlings to your vegetable garden. Starting transplants from seeds indoors can be very enjoyable for a gardener, especially after a long winter. I love watching life emerge from the tiny seeds and flourish into healthy seedlings. Starting transplants from seed is…
Planning Your Vegetable Garden: Mapping the Garden Beds
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Mapping your vegetable garden before planting will help you see how many seedlings you need, where they will be planted, and how you can keep each bed producing all through the growing season. Late winter is the perfect time to plan your vegetable garden. After enduring snowstorms and cold temperatures for months, I begin wondering…
Planning Your Vegetable Garden: Making a Seed List
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Organizing your seeds is a big step towards planning your vegetable garden. Having your seeds in order will make it easier to figure out what you have on hand and what you need to purchase. There is nothing more exciting to a gardener than planning the next growing season. Even though it is cold outside,…
How to Grow Onions From Seed
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Growing onions from seed opens up a wide diversity of shapes, flavors, sizes, and colors to grow. Here are some tips on selecting varieties for your growing area and how to start onions from seed indoors under lights. Onions are a staple in the kitchen and essential for adding flavor to numerous dishes all year…
How to Grow Celery Using Self-Watering Planters
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Growing celery from seed can be a challenge. Celery has a long growing season and takes a while to develop when sowing from seed. Here are some tips on how to start celery plants from seed and use self-watering planters to maintain the moisture levels needed for the plants to thrive. Did you know that…
4 Tips for Growing Great Spring Carrots
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Do you have difficulty growing spring carrots? Germination seems to take forever in the spring due to the cool air and soil temperatures. A lot can go wrong during this time. Here are 4 tips to improve carrot seed germination. Many longtime readers of this blog will know that I usually have a difficult time…
6 Ways to Grow Potatoes
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Whether you are striving for a few gourmet fingerling potatoes for fresh eating or growing a large crop for winter food storage, here are several different ways to grow potatoes in your garden. Growing potatoes is always amazing to me. You plant a small seed potato in the ground and it grows into a plant that…
Sourcing Seed Potatoes for the Backyard Garden
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Seed potatoes are not seeds but small potato tubers. When you plant seed potatoes, you are planting a potato produced by the plant the previous year. Any diseases or insects that the mother plant may have had are carried over in the seed potato. Sourcing certified seed potatoes ensures that you are starting with disease…