During our series on vegetable gardening, we suggested several books that are good choices for beginning vegetable gardeners. Edible Gardening for the Midwest is another…

After a winter that has featured an odd amount of rain, followed by very cold temperatures, we have finally gotten some snow. Several days of…

Well, we made it! This is day 31 of our series on how to create and maintain a vegetable garden. We hope this has inspired…

While it’s hard to imagine on a cold January day, there may come a time when you look at your vegetable garden and wonder what…

In yesterday’s post about heirloom tomatoes, I recounted some of the questions I frequently field from people who are curious about my obsession. Here’s another…

  Yes, I know they exist, because I’ve seen them. I’m talking about people who don’t like tomatoes. Hard to believe, I realize, so when…

The two biggest issues for vegetable gardeners in the North are deer and rabbits. Both are relentless and clever, if they are hungry enough. Fencing…

Once your vegetable garden is planted, you’ll have just a few ongoing chores: watering, picking and weeding. None of these need be onerous (and, of…

Vegetables are living, growing things, and they need to be fed. The amount of nitrogen, phosophorous, potassium and trace minerals that plants need varies. (See…

Growing greens — lettuce, spinach, arugula and other leafy things — in your vegetable garden produces big pay-offs in taste and nutrition for relatively little…

One of the most popular articles ever written for Northern Gardener was on winter-sowing perennials. Winter sowing involves sowing seeds outdoors in mini-greenhouses, made of…

Once your seeds have germinated and the seedlings are growing, the next step in the process is transplanting them into a larger container—or not. If…

While many people like to place their vegetable garden in a separate space designed just for growing and harvesting food, others either lack enough space…

When you’re planning a vegetable garden, nearly as important as deciding what to grow in it is figuring out a design. A well-thought out plan…

For most gardeners, deciding which vegetables to plant is greatly affected by yesterday’s topic: whether they’ll be gardening in traditional beds, raised beds, or containers….

Some people are faced with a dilemma when planning their vegetable garden: should they plant their garden in the ground, or in raised beds, or…

Vegetables want to grow — remember that when things don’t seem to be going right in your new vegetable garden — they want to produce…

If 2013 is the year you plan to start a vegetable garden, welcome to the club! Since the economy stumbled in 2008, more Americans have…

This post is an edited reprint from mynortherngarden.com, the blog of Northern Gardener editor, Mary Lahr Schier. Nothing says “Happy Holidays” and “Welcome” like an…

By midsummer, many of the flowering shrubs in the northern garden have finished their show. The lilacs, azaleas, spirea and fruit shrubs have mostly settled…