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Creative Vegetable Gardener:Watering Pumpkins: Best Practices for Growing Great Pumpkins

There are many reasons to love pumpkins: you’re a kid, Halloween is your top holiday, fall is your favorite season, orange is a beloved...

Creative Vegetable Gardener:What Kind of Garlic Varieties Should You Plant?

Interested in growing garlic? You’re in luck – garlic is one of the easiest crops to grow in the home garden. You can plant...

Creative Vegetable Gardener:Harvesting Leeks Like a Pro: Tips from the Garden

I’m not shy about how much I love growing alliums in my garden. Every fall I plant 220 garlic and each spring 500 onions....

Creative Vegetable Gardener:Seed to Harvest: Growing Pumpkins in Raised Beds

After building several different gardens of my own and working with hundreds of gardeners over the years, I’ve found that building and growing vegetables...

Why Gardeners are Adding Pansies to the Vegetable Garden

Pansies are a whimsical flower. Their small petals and bright colors in early spring and fall feel like fairy dust sprinkled throughout the garden...

Creative Vegetable Gardener:When to Start Seeds Indoors in Zone 5 Demystified

I’ve lived and gardened in zone 5 (Madison, Wisconsin) for the bulk of my gardening life, over 20 years! This zone is no joke...

8 Fast-growing vegetable seeds for summer

Fast-growing vegetable seeds are a clever way to make your outside space more productive or fill an unexpected gap. Ideal for beginner gardeners looking...

Creative Vegetable Gardener:The Great Debate! Choosing Between Bush Beans vs Pole Beans

True fact: I rarely buy green beans from the grocery store. I find them to be waxy and virtually tasteless most of the time....

Creative Vegetable Gardener:The Big Question: How Long Does It Take for Tomatoes to Grow?

I know we all agree, there’s nothing quite like the taste of a homegrown tomato straight from the garden! No wonder it’s one of...

Creative Vegetable Gardener:Are Tomatillos Self-Pollinating? A Gardener’s Guide

One season, I was tending to a client’s garden and her tomatillo plant was flowering, but wasn’t producing any fruit. I was confused because...

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Vegetable Storage: Best Practices | Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

There’s nothing like enjoying vegetables straight from the garden. However, we often have more vegetables that we can use at once. To keep our...

Plant These Microgreens after Thanksgiving and Serve Them at Christmas

Microgreens pack intense taste and vitamins into their first tender leaves, harvested young for maximum punch in small servings. Microgreens are the early stage...

How to Plant, Grow, and Harvest Parsnips: A Complete Guide

Sharing is caring! Parsnips are cool-weather biennials grown as an annual. Parsnips taste best if brought to harvest in cool weather. The parsnip is a...
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