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The beginning of winter need not be the end of your growing season. People are increasingly turning to homegrown food, and they don’t want to be put off by frost or a few inches of snow. There are several frost-hardy ...

Are you as impatient as I am, waiting for the frost-free planting dates to arrive? As the days get longer and spring inches closer, it’s hard not to get itchy fingers for gardening. Still, at this time of year, many of us ...

There is a rhythm to the year-round garden. At no point are we without fresh food from the garden, though it changes quite a bit through the seasons. Here in Zone 5 and where potential frost days are six months ...

When I was a kid, I assumed you had just a few months to plant, tend to, and then harvest plants and vegetables. I was wrong. When I started out working for a farmer I was introduced to the age-old ...

When the winter turns to spring on the calendar, many of us with a green thumb start getting the itch to plant vegetables. Starting seeds indoors can tide us over for a while, but what we are really anticipating is ...

Eating fresh produce all winter is a gardener’s dream. There is a sense of pride and satisfaction from eating vegetables you grew in your own garden. Some may think growing crops during the winter is hard or impossible, but as ...

Growing crops has traditionally been thought of as an occupation for the warmer months. We plant in the spring and grow through the fall. Our crops change as the seasons progress, but vegetable production tends to halt abruptly with the ...

The temperatures are dropping, and you might feel a little melancholy thinking about your garden freezing under all that snow and not having any fresh produce until summertime. Put away the tissues and consider these methods of extending the growing ...