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Raised Bed Organic Gardening in NJ Zone 6
Best Time to Pick Garden Vegetables Q: Is there a certain time of day when you should pick garden veggies? A: I don’t think there’s a specific time necessarily, but we do know that you should avoid picking veggies just after a rain or after the plants are wet. The …
I fully admit that we’re not the best at executing our plans to grow cool-weather crops in the fall. There’s just something so sad about having to say goodbye to those last, red tomatoes, and begin hacking up the browned twigs and bits sagging about our garden that was teeming …
Being relatively new gardeners (this is our fifth year of growing organic vegetables here in NJ Zone 6), we occasionally still have to research certain aspects of gardening before being able to write about them. Mid-summer planting was one of them. My mother has been gardening for most of her …
What to do with an Overgrown Vegetable Garden At some point in the heat of summer, you may look at your raised bed vegetable garden and wonder when and how it ended up morphing into an out-of-control jungle. Tomato plants wrapped around each other and everything else, kales shading out …
What does Kale look like? (Kale vs. Collards vs. Swiss Chard) I recently opened my emailed copy of a certain big-name gardening newsletter to discover their big sale on kale. A well-timed message, but there was one problem. The newsletter had pictures of collard greens, not kale! This got me …
