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Entries Tagged ‘winter greens’

Getting garden beds ready for winter – wait! Don’t put them to bed yet!

Amber from Upper Arlington sent me an email yesterday asking about what to do with her Square Foot Garden now that the growing season is winding down. It is such a good question, I thought I’d share the answer with everyone. You can start to clean up your gardens now – pull out dead and [...]

Mother Earth News Fair

Tomorrow is the Mother Earth News Fair at Seven Springs Resort in PA. I have a Square Foot Gardening booth. Getting here was a day from hell. Hope that means our event is pre-disastered and the rest of the weekend will be amazing and profitable! It certainly looks like it is going to be a fantastic event.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/fair/schedule-categories.aspx

Started my indoor winter garden yesterday

We finally got the sunroom cleaned out (it was still storing my 16-year-old son’s junk) so I could start my winter garden. I’m experimenting with microgreens. I’ve been fascinated with them since I first learned about it about a year ago. Microgreens are somewhere between sprouts and baby greens. You harvest at about 6 to [...]

FREEZE Warning tonight!

Wow! Global climate change is making a huge impact here in Ohio with a FREEZE warning on the last day of September?!? Not even any frosts first, we’re going right to a freeze. Geeze. We are two weeks early from our October 15 date, the usual “first frost” date for Zone 5/6. Don’t panic! While [...]