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The Twin Cities home shows — the Minnesota Home and Patio Show, which runs this weekend, and the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show, which is…
By carefully choosing which crops and varieties you grow in your vegetable garden, it’s possible to extend the growing season several weeks in the North….
Get more out of your vegetable garden by extending the season, both in the spring and in the fall. Below are some ways to extend…
Once your vegetable garden is planted and begins to produce a crop, you can spend a few moments every day in the garden to monitor…
Updated July 2025 Even with a short Minnesota growing season, you can extend the productivity of your vegetable garden by replanting certain vegetables a second…
Before we even start talking about pests, let’s be clear: Most bugs are good bugs, and trying to keep your vegetable garden bug-free is not…
Updated June 2025 Now that you’ve got your tomato planted, there are other things to keep in mind, like how to minimize its upkeep. One…
Updated June 2025 People are understandably disappointed when the plants they’ve carefully tended and nurtured fail to produce the bountiful crop they dreamed about all…
In most vegetable gardens, plant spacing is determined by what sort of things you plan to grow and how many plants of each variety you…
Updated May 2025 Planting a vegetable garden isn’t just a one-day affair. It’s often done over several weeks, depending on the weather and other factors….
If you grow vegetables from seed, the packet almost always lists how long before or after your average last frost date you should plant. It’s…
One way to extend the vegetable growing season—both on the front end in spring and on the back end in fall—is to use cold frames,…
This is the time of year when Minnesotans love heading to their local orchard or (if they are lucky) harvesting the last few apples off…
If you are lucky, your vegetable garden is bulging with colored peppers. If not, local farmers’ markets have plenty, and this recipe for red pepper…
Frying, hanging, being wrapped in newspaper and stuffed in a box — life isn’t easy for a green tomato. For many northern gardeners, this year’s…
With the vegetable garden bulging with produce and many flowers starting to fade, seed savers are on the look-out for the best plants in their…
You don’t need a large plot of land to grow your own food or some flowers to brighten your home. You can grow plants anywhere!…
Knowing when to pick vegetables for peak taste and texture is a skill many gardeners develop after years of trial and error. Generally, however, vegetables…
Moving into August, vegetable gardeners begin to ask themselves a simple question: What was I thinking? The harvests are piling up and, as delicious as…
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