10 Best Vegetables To Grow In The Winter
Growing vegetables in the winter can be difficult, but it gets easier when you know the best ones.
Gardening In General
Gardening has many different aspects, such as light, water, soil, fertilizer, compost, hardiness zones, design, tools and equipment, its many terms, starting a garden, and seasonal practices. Don’t worry if this sounds like a lot because most of it is easy to learn and implement. We’ll help you along the way as you explore these areas to start or better your garden. As you do, let us know what else we can do or how your journey is going. We’d love to hear from you!
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What Are Microclimates: Everything To Know For Your Garden
Microclimates are smaller climates within larger ones that deviate from the norm. Microclimates occur due to a variety of conditions such as light, wind, water, buildings, and property slope. Identifying your microclimate is essential to understanding what your garden needs, where to put it, and how to help it thrive.
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Vermont Plant Hardiness Zones Map And Gardening Guide
Vermont’s plant hardiness zones include zones 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b and 6a. Across all these zones, its overall average extreme minimum winter temperatures range from -30°F (-34.4°C) to -5°F (-20.6°C).
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Is Fertilizer Necessary For Your Vegetable Garden?
Whether or not fertilizer is necessary for your vegetable garden comes down to what kind of fertilizer you’re using and what’s already in your soil.
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How To Maintain Your Vegetable Garden Throughout Every Season
Maintaining your vegetable garden requires different steps for each season. But each step is essential to the health and growth of your vegetable garden.
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Is Vegetable Gardening Good For Beginners?
When it comes to whether or not vegetable gardening are good for beginners, it comes down to the work you’re willing to put in, and what sorts of rewards you’re looking for from that work.
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How To Make The Best Soil For Your Vegetable Garden
I know from experience you need to start with great soil to grow great vegetables. All year long, I am doing something or other to make sure my garden has good, healthy soil.
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How To Protect Your Vegetable Garden From Frost
Let’s dive into what you can do to protect your vegetable garden from frost. The good news is these are the best tips and quickest methods gardeners commonly use, so you’ll be able to implement them quickly, too.
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How To Start An Indoor Vegetable Garden: The Complete Guide
Thankfully, growing a few small vegetables in your home or other living space is not difficult. However, you do have some important things to think about before starting. But with some careful planning, the process will be easy and successful.
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How To Start Your Vegetable Garden: The Complete Guide
Growing vegetables isn’t all that difficult, either. Yes, there are “ideal” conditions for reaping the highest yields, but most vegetables are pretty forgiving. Even if everything isn’t perfect, your plants will likely produce something. That said, here are the steps to start your own vegetable garden.
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Everything To Know About How To Save Your Seeds For Next Year
A seed is the beginning and the end of your plant’s life cycle. So, seed saving may be for you if you like bringing things full circle. Seed saving is also very practical since you’ll be stocking up for your garden next year.
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How To Use Ashes In Your Garden (But Why You Might Not Want To)
Ashes (specifically untreated wood ashes) contain some compounds that may benefit plant growth. Still, there are a few important steps I suggest before you take your ashes into your garden.
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Are Ashes Good For Your Garden?
Gardeners commonly receive advice to use ashes to fertilize their gardens. Maybe you’ve gotten the same advice or heard about large-scale agricultural operations using them. But are ashes good for your garden?
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Hawai’i Plant Hardiness Zones Map And Gardening Guide
Hawai’i’s plant hardiness zones range from 9a to 13a. Most of its land area falls into hardiness zone 11. Hawai’i has a range of climate conditions, even including a polar region (and microclimates as well). However, you can enjoy year-round gardening in much of Hawai’i, with relatively mild weather and few extremes.
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When And How To Use Landscape Fabric (Or Not)
Manufacturers market landscape fabric (or weed barrier) as a long-term solution to reduce or prevent weed growth in your garden. Who wouldn’t want that? Unfortunately, for those of us who have installed landscape fabric before, we soon come to regret it. It doesn’t perform well long-term, and it usually ends up causing more problems than…