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I blogged earlier this week about Julie Moir Messervy and her concept of the “big move” in garden design. During her talk at the Carver-Scott…
I’ve been digging through my notes from the garden education days I attended this spring. These events are held all over the state and are…
Our extended, winter-like weather and delayed spring has changed the timing for planting some things in the garden that I’ve started indoors. My trays of…
Updated May 2025 In this previous post, we offered a few tips from Jackie Smith of the University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardeners of Carver…
Updated May 2025 What’s growing in your vegetable garden these days? How about trying something different—maybe Chinese cabbage or pak choi, spicy mustard greens or…
Each year, publishers release dozens of gardening books, many of which are useful or beautiful. At the same time, hundreds of cookbooks are published, and…
Gardening by Cuisine: An Organic-Food Lover’s Guide to Sustainable Living is the latest book by Patti Moreno, proprietress of one of the top urban gardening…
Is this the year you plan to start a vegetable garden? We hope so, because there are few outdoor activities that produce so much food,…
Yes, the thermometer out my window reads 10 degrees F and those winds from our sort-of blizzard of earlier this week are still dying down,…
Technically speaking, we are in a blizzard here in Minnesota as I write this. (There’s not that much snow, but the winds are wicked fierce,…
I started lettuce early this year—on February 22—so that we would be able to display the new seedlings in our exhibit at the Minneapolis Home…
Gardeners are always looking for ways to make their gardens more productive. The latest trend is growing vegetables in straw bales, a method that resembles…
Pruning is one of those gardening topics that has an air of mystery about it. When is the best time to prune trees? Why do…
Gardening for birds, bees and other wildlife is not difficult — and it definitely does not mean your yard will look messy. The next issue…
Don Engebretson, a.k.a., The Renegade Gardener, calls himself “the lone voice of horticultural reason.” That may be a bit of an overstatement, but Don —…
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…
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