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Carrots are easily the most forgiving food you can grow. They are slow to germinate, but once they do, they pretty much do all of the work themselves. They can be harvested or “stored” in the ground until you need them. They’ll tolerate a pretty wide range of temperatures too, so long as you mulch Read More >>
Have you planted your spring peas yet? Peas are one of the first cool weather crops that can be planted directly in your garden as soon as the soil can be worked…. so what are you waiting for? They are ridiculously easy to grow and have a fairly short growing season, so you ‘ll be Read More >>
I’m just going to come right out and say it: Swiss chard is highly underrated. It is one of my favorite cool weather crops to grow. It’s got brightly colored stem, so it’s aesthetically easy to integrate right into your landscaping. Plus, I don’t mind saying, it tastes significantly better than kale, and you won’t Read More >>
Have you started your tomato seeds yet? I started mine yesterday and let me tell you Bob, I am so excited! Tomatoes and gardening are kind of synonymous. In fact, a couple people I know {I’m not naming names}, grow tomatoes because they think their garden wouldn’t be a garden without them–they don’t particularly like eating Read More >>
Lettuce is one of my favorite kitchen garden crops. It tastes so much better than the grocery store lettuce, will grow even with ritual abuse, and produces pretty darn good yields. Because it can tolerate the cool weather, it’s one of the first crops that I start indoors the early winter. If you have a Read More >>
