Day 7: Designing Your Vegetable Garden
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 will save you a lot…
Category Archives: 31 Days to a Great Northern Vegetable Garden
Day 6: Favorite Seed Sources for Your Vegetable Garden
If you’ve decided to try starting your own vegetable seeds this year, you’ll find a lot of choices at hand—both for varieties available as well as places to buy them….
Day 5: Seeds vs. Starter Plants
For me, half the fun of starting a vegetable garden comes at this time of year, when I sit down with a stack of seed catalogs to look at all…
Day 4: What to Grow in Your Vegetable Garden
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. You wouldn’t want to try…
Day 3: Pots vs. Raised Beds vs. Traditional Beds
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 even in pots? Each of…
Day 2: Where to Put Your Vegetable Garden
Vegetables want to grow — remember that when things don’t seem to be going right in your new vegetable garden — they want to produce fruit, to pass on their…
Day 1: So You Want a Vegetable Garden?
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 started growing some of their…
