Gardening After Frost? How to Keep Harvesting Vegetables Into Winter Your first frost doesn’t have to mean the end of your gardening season. With the right plants, a little planning, and some simple protection, you can keep harvesting vegetables long after temperatures start dropping. Every fall, gardeners start pulling out their plants, cleaning up their […]
Short answer: probably not. The number that tells you for sure isn’t your growing zone — it’s your first frost date. Find yours, then check the table, and you’ll know exactly what’s still worth planting in the next five minutes.
How to Plan Your Fall Garden: The Only 2 Numbers You Actually Need I remember when I was first getting into gardening and trying to figure out when I was supposed to plant everything for fall. There were dates, charts, zone maps, seed packets all telling me something slightly different — it was a lot […]
Cool weather hardy herbs to grow outdoors in fall & winter The cold weather is coming. Some of us have even been hit with some flurries, or worse… gasp… full blown snowstorms! Most people take fall as a sign to pack up their gardens and pull out the last of the tomatoes and peppers. Yes, […]
