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How To Plant Annual Rye, The Best No-Till Fall Garden Cover Crop Of All!
When it comes to planting a fall cover crop in your garden, it’s hard to beat the incredible benefits of annual rye. Cover crops are the single best method for recharging your garden’s soil each fall. Not only do they provide valuable … [Read more...]
Fall Pruning: Think twice
Fall has always been considered the season of harvest. Images of corn, pumpkins and the bounty of Thanksgiving all create moving symbols of autumn. Fall brings to close another growing season, as plants prepare for winter by shedding their leaves or … [Read more...]
Floating Row Cover
An organic gardening tool that improves plant growth and excludes pests. Floating row cover (FRC) is a white, light-weight, non-woven fabric made from spun-bonded polyester or polypropylene. It has a “gauze-like” appearance and resembles interfacing … [Read more...]
Gardening for Resilience: The Bounty of Fall Vegetables
Without doubt, you’ve heard that the Covid19 pandemic has motivated many newbies to get digging as they create vegetable gardens to nourish the body, mind, and spirit. Some call these “victory gardens” because they conjure up the gardening momentum … [Read more...]
5 Essential Tools for Gardening Comfort
Bedford Area Master Gardener Phyllis Turner is featured in this AARP article! Phyllis has a wealth of knowledge on this topic and has offered presentations and written fact sheets to help educate people on strategies they can employ to lessen the … [Read more...]
Planning the Fall Vegetable Garden
WOW, what a gardening season! April was dry. May was wet and cool, with near record amounts of rainfall. June arrived with 90º+ temperatures. With summer just getting underway and the dog days of summer just around the corner, it hardly seems logical … [Read more...]
Gardening When It’s Hot – Dealing With Summer Heat In The Garden
In many regions, and especially here in the Southeast, it’s that icky time of year again. The summer heat (and humidity) is back. Dealing with summer heat can be difficult and it’s worse for those who are not accustomed to it. But it’s no picnic for … [Read more...]
Hot Weather Tips For Tomatoes
When the heat is on, tomato plants take a break: they don’t care for excessive heat any more than the rest of us. When daytime temperatures are up in the 90s and nights are in the 70s or warmer, tomato plants may keep on blooming, but the flowers … [Read more...]
Root Vegetables: Underground Culinary Treasures
Like many of my fellow gardeners, I enjoy digging in the dirt, feeling soil textures with my fingertips, and discovering earthworms wriggling around those dark places. Although some people might find this somewhat odd, most young children are eager … [Read more...]