Kitchen Garden Spring Tour

Here’s a gal who has all her ducks in a row… and kids too! I don’t about you guys, but I’m really impressed.

As the video progresses, you can see (and hear) that their lot is probably in an urban area, and not very garden-friendly. Obviously, this didn’t stop this intrepid mom! She’s developed a productive raised bed garden.

Look what she and her family have accomplished…

Raised Bed Vegetable Garden Late Spring Early Summer Heirloom Tomatoes Squash Cucumber Zucchini

I planted all my plants from seed with the help of my children. We put our tomatoes out in April under plastic and they are doing very well. Raised bed gardening is the way to go if you don’t have good soil. We filled our beds with good composted soi…

Planting Spring Vegetables

Unfortunately, coming up with the best spring planting date isn’t an exact science. But the good news is that rest of vegetable gardening isn’t either.

Why is it good? Because we can plant our favorite vegetables, we can plan harvests that last for several weeks (instead of all at once), we can choose among several gardening styles…

In other words, there’s lots of opportunity to experiment and to have fun!

About that planting date, check out the first article…

Get ready for spring – and $6 gas! — White Pines Whisper

You tell it your last spring frost date and it tells you the dates for starting and setting out a lot of common vegetables and flowers. You can find your last frost date by entering your zipcode on the Plant Maps website (works for …

Publish Date: 03/07/2011 6:00

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Winter Vegetable Garden Harvests

Minnesota gardeners are made of tough stuff!

This guy has some terrific tips about “keeping” root crops ready to harvest throughout the winter… even in Minnesota. I really enjoyed his reminiscenses about his dad’s winter harvests.
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