Its never too early to start planning next year’s garden. Depending on how much of your own indoor seed starting you plan to do, you might need seeds and supplies on hand as early as January! December is a great time to reflect back on this past growing season and try to figure out what you can do next year to improve:
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Read MoreStoring Root Vegetables
If properly managed, storage crops can last through the entire winter and even into the following spring, allowing you to eat from your garden even when you don't feel like going outside in the cold to pick salad greens. Below are the very basic rules for storage of a few different common storage crops, check out our book for more in depth information...
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Mustard greens, Brassica juncea, are easy to grow, mature relatively quickly, and produce high yields in small areas. They like cooler temperatures and grow best when direct seeded in the late summer to produce a fall and winter crop. They are also a great crop to seed early in the spring!
Read More5 Ways to Prepare Your Garden For Winter
Like it or not, the end of summer is hurtling towards us at unbelievable speed, like a gigantic meteor hell-bent on disheveling Elijah Woods hair. There is little we can do, but getting the vegetable garden in order seems like a good way to make the most of the time we have left…and why not make sure things are ready for next spring just in case the Mayans miscalculated…
Read MorePlum Trees
As you have probably noticed, early-mid September marks the epicenter of the northwest harvest season. In addition to the bounty emanating from the vegetable garden, fruit trees are going off like time bombs everywhere you look.
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