The COVID-fueled boom in vegetable gardening continued in 2021, and research is showing a high percentage of newbies say they plan to stick with this dirty (but healthy) habit again in 2022. Plant ...

“You can never replicate the taste of garden-fresh vegetables with what you buy at the grocery store. But that’s especially true for carrots. more so than maybe any other vegetable in this book.” So ...

Last week I wrote about some of the disasters I had with my 2022 vegetable garden, mostly due to my own fault, but some also due to the unprecedented hot and dry weather parts of our region ...

Now is the time when fall veggies take center stage as nurseries bust out the broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces and chard, but gardeners who want to break free from more standard garden fare have an ...

Fall (which officially started yesterday, Sept. 22) is a busy time to do lots of jobs in the landscape, but it’s also a time to think about “undoing” a few things. Three situations to consider: 1.) ...

As we move into the end of September, local gardener Jim Rauchenstein reflected on many successes of this growing season. I had taken an earlier photograph of him standing beside onions tied to a grid ...

No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not acquainted with ...

Gardening naturally lends itself to reusing and recycling – just think about compost and last year’s seed trays. So if there’s a way to reduce trash while saving money on produce, you can count me in.