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Two summers ago I walked out to my raised beds on a Tuesday morning with a coffee in one hand and a harvest basket in the other. My ‘Marketmore 76’ vines had been loaded with fruit the night before. By 8 a.m., three of the five plants were flat on the soil, leaves limp as … Read more >>
Two Julys ago I ran an accidental experiment in my own backyard. I mulched three of my four raised beds with shredded leaves in late May, then ran out of material and left the fourth bare. By the third week of July, the mulched beds needed water twice a week. The bare bed needed water … Read more >>
The first vegetable garden I ever built was a sad little rectangle of tilled clay behind a rented duplex in Zone 6. Four tomato plants, two rows of beans, and a whole lot of bare dirt baking in the July sun. It produced enough for maybe three dinners. Meanwhile, my landlord’s mother had a driveway … Read more >>
My first raised bed was a disaster, and I still keep a photo of it on my phone. I built a 4×8 cedar box in a Zone 6 backyard, filled it with cheap topsoil, and planted what I liked to eat — celery, cauliflower, and a row of melons. By August I had three stunted … Read more >>
Two springs ago I stood in a garden center holding a four-pack of broccoli starts priced at $6.49, and in my other hand a seed packet of the exact same variety for $3.19 that held about 200 seeds. I bought both. Not because I couldn’t decide, but because I’d finally gotten tired of guessing which … Read more >>
My first raised bed cucumber crop was a disaster, and it was entirely my fault. I planted six Marketmore 76 seedlings in a single 4×8 bed, let them sprawl across the soil, and by mid-July I had a tangled mat of mildewed leaves hiding about nine bitter, yellow-bellied fruits. I pulled the whole thing out in disgust … Read more >>
The summer I finally quit synthetic fertilizer, I was convinced my tomatoes would sulk. I’d been feeding them blue powder every two weeks for years, and the plants looked fine — big, green, glossy. But my Zone 6 raised beds had turned into something closer to dead sand. Dig a hole, and you’d find no … Read more >>
Three years ago I bought a knobby piece of ginger at the grocery store, stuck it in a plastic nursery pot, and shoved it under my kitchen window in mid-January. Nothing happened for six weeks. I was convinced I’d wasted my three dollars and a scoop of potting mix. Then one morning there was a pale green … Read more >>
My north-side vegetable bed used to be my biggest embarrassment. It gets maybe three and a half hours of direct sun in June, and for two summers straight I stubbornly planted tomatoes there. I got tall, floppy plants and about nine golf-ball fruits total. Then a neighbor in my old Zone 6 neighborhood walked past, … Read more >>
My first apartment in Zone 6 had a north-facing balcony about four feet deep. I crammed nine pots onto it that first spring, mostly because the garden center had a sale. By July I had one leggy tomato with three fruits, a bolted lettuce, and a basil plant that looked like it had been through … Read more >>
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