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Horseradish, at Times

Horseradish grows outside the garden fence. It’s one of the few crops that deer, woodchucks, and others never bother with. Others are …

Potato-Planting Day

The first step in planting potatoes is selecting the seeds. Seed potatoes are just potatoes that have started growing alien-looking tendrils and …

Planting Onion Seedlings

The garden purchases allium seedlings to grow onions and shallots rather than growing them from seed here. Look at these beauties from …

Early May Garden Eats

Gardeners have planted snow peas, snap peas, lettuces, arugula, kale, collard greens, carrots, turnips, radishes, and more. It’s be a few weeks …

Flower Power Prevails

Gardening weather and soil thaw began early. Flower Power team got right out there to prep the beds for cutting flowers. A …

It Begins

In November 2022, we planted garlic on a day like this one. Partway through the season, there was a harvest, not of …