Append: I live in USDA zone 7 but there is information here applicable to most zones ( Read more... )

this time of the year I always kick myself for not researching season extending techniques. I do put a row cover over my spinach and kale, but that only seems to work until December or the first heavy snowfall (whichever comes first ( Read more... )

  I was just at at Home Depot earlier this afternoon, and noticed that plant frost protector device called "Wall o' Water" (or one of its clones.)  A package of three "Walls" is $10.95USD.
Just an FYI for those who are looking to acquire and possibly accumulate a stash of them for their more tender and more expensive or labor-intensive plants.

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I have a new garden that I dug up last year. The ground was alley so it's grey wet clay. Last year, I mixed in some compost/dirt and tried to plant a garden, which went surprisingly well but now, I have leaves ontop of the dirt/clay now (and it's frozen, here in Michigan). I have oodles of compost in various stages of decomp, that I could put on ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of putting the veg garden 'to bed' for the winter season... I've got the garlic in the ground and am harvesting the last of the spinach and kale ( Read more... )

Hey everybody. I have a problem with my tomatoes, and I suspect that there are other people from Michigan having the same dillemma. Our summer has been very odd, and it has not been very warm at all. It has been too chilly for any of my full size tomatoes to ripen. I have about 15 plants covered in green bulbs, begging me to turn the temp up just a ( Read more... )

A week and a half ago a bunch of volunteer squash seedlings popped up in my garden. Last night a cold snap came through. This is a late March Texas cold snap so it's not QUITE freezing, but it's close, and there's frost predicted tonight and tomorrow morning before the temperature shoots back up to 70. I covered the most robust seedlings with ( Read more... )

As some of you undoubtedly have noticed, gardening is getting a little bit of a face lift!

Over the next week you'll see tweaks of color, image, and layout. I donated 2 months of paid time to the community, which will allow us to customize our appearance and include a few additional features.

Most importantly though- tags are up for gardeningTags are one of the ( Read more... )