The week before your first expected frost requires flexibility and time. As well as sanitized pots, sanitized soil and space. The Average First Frost Date for my area is October 1st. About a week before this date, I begin obsessing about the forecast. After a few days with concurring agreement between different weather source regarding …
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All plants grown in the high wind prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 60. Soil is a loamy clay. Although my preference is organic, I have used commercial fertilizers from time to time. Gardening personality relaxed and experimental, purist about very little. Growing Days approximately 135 Authors are HUMAN, …
I garden because I want to taste delicious things. I garden because I want every excuse to walk barefoot in the grass with the sun blessing down on me, and end the day sweaty with a dirt smudged face. I garden because I like sitting in the tomato cave I made, same as I played …
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Varieties with notes N = New to me My smaller varieties: Agi Red (red and orange striped) – FavoriteBlack Vernissage (black and red) Cherry Punch – N?Green Doctors (green) – (yr 2)Italian Ice (pale yellow) – (yr 2)Juliet – NLucky Agi (tricolor)Lucky Tiger (tricolor)Napa Chardonnay Blush (yellow) – NPink Bumblebee (pink and red striped) – …
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July is busy. The first month where the harvest is reliably colorful and supplies a decent meal beyond greens, here up north.
It’s also the end of that precious timeframe where the garden doesn’t require a great deal of clean-up. Up here, not much has died yet.
But it’s coming.
Every started seed from early spring is in the ground. All the tools have hit the dirt or the grass. My skin went from white to a deep tan. Budget completely blown out. What now? All plants grown in the high wind prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 55-60. …
Suburban Backyard – 95 plants, 70 plus varieties! Grow Notes Here.
Common garden chores for the USDA zone 4 and zone 5 garden in May. Add fertilizer. Plant roses and other shrubs. Begin to harden off the plants due to be planted outside in mid May.
Some items on the April To Do list for the USDA Zone 4 and 5 northern garden. Inventory. Tune-up on your mower and other garden equipment. Inspect and sharpen. Also…
All seeds grown in the high wind, lower rain prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 60. Soil is a loamy clay. Although my preference is organic, I have used commercial fertilizers from time to time. Growing Days approximately 135. Gardening Personality: Relaxed, experimental, purist about very little. We practice …