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How to Prepare Greens

Greens are one of my favourite things to grow. As an American with Southern roots, I love a good pot of collards made with pork, cooked low and slow. As a gardener, I experiment with all sorts of greens each year. This summer's garden has Bright Light's Swiss Chard, Lacinto Kale, Georgia Southern Collards and ...

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PlantlingsPlus for Fall Harvests

PlantlingsPlus to the rescue for any of you who have forgotten to sow a crop of greens and cold-season crops for fall harvest. The Fall PlantlingsPlus Collection from Ferry-Morse is a line of 20 varieties of vegetables, herbs and ornamental flowers that are at least 4-6 inches tall when they arrive at your door. With ...

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Growing Salad Greens for Early Spring

I joke that stones are my garden plot’s first harvest each spring, but in reality “stone soup” is displaced on my spring menu by tender shoots of herbs, lettuces and spinach. Casually throwing seeds of lettuces, herbs and tender greens into the soil as I do a final fall garden raking gives me a crop ...

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The Fall Vegetable Garden 2.0

If you were on the Victory Garden 2.0 kick when the pandemic hit earlier in the spring of 2020, I suggest you keep your focus and carry through with a fall vegetable gardening—and *gasp!* maybe even the first bit of winter. Are you as tired as your tomato plants look now? Feel weighed down with ...

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Desperate Deer Go to Great Lengths for a Meal

No matter how long I've been doing this, I consistently find that every season is different and you always learn something. This year marked dramatic changes beginning with a cooler spring, yet not cold, blessed with plenty of precipitation. I planted the garden by mid-May, and it was well on its way to be one ...

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