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Grow Vegetables in Cold Climates

Below are resources to help you grow more vegetables.

Recent Articles

Food Garden Life Blog

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Skip the Transplants: Direct Sowing Seeds

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Move Over Bedding Plants...and Try These Edible Garden Plants Instead

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Driveway Makeover! 5 Ideas for Growing a Container Garden for Vegetables

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Vegetables to Grow: 12 Tips to Choose What’s Best for Your Vegetable Garden

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Seed Company List: Where to Buy Vegetable Seed

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Prevent Leggy Seedlings and Grow Vegetable Transplants Like an Expert

Articles: Vegetable Crops

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Vegetables to Grow: 12 Tips to Choose What’s Best for Your Vegetable Garden

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Guide: Grow Globe Artichokes in Cold Climates

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Best Vegetables to Grow in Pots (12 Great Container Vegetables)

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Fresh Tomatoes in March

Want a Bold Vegetable? Grow This Promethean Plant (the Cardoon)

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These Edible Perennials and Perennial Vegetables Make a Delicious Edible Landscape

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Top Vegetables to Plant in August for a Continuous Harvest

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5 Heat-Tolerant Salad Greens to Grow All Summer Long (Plus a Great Garnish)

Guide to Fruits and Vegetables that Grow in Shade

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25 Storage Crops to Help You Plan a Vegetable Garden that Feeds You Year-Round

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What’s to Love About Sorrel

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Force Rhubarb Indoors

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How to Grow Kohlrabi

Articles: Plan and Design

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Move Over Bedding Plants...and Try These Edible Garden Plants Instead

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Seed Shopping Smarts: Know The Lingo So You Can Get The Best Seeds

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Vegetable Seed Guide: When to Start Seeds Indoors

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Planning a Kitchen Garden that Awes (in Purple!)

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7 Vegetable Garden Layout Ideas To Grow More Food In Your Garden

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Guide: Vertical Vegetable Garden Ideas and Plants

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Ornamental Vegetables for Fall

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Home Garden Soil Contamination

Articles: How-To

Featured

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Skip the Transplants: Direct Sowing Seeds

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Driveway Makeover! 5 Ideas for Growing a Container Garden for Vegetables

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Prevent Leggy Seedlings and Grow Vegetable Transplants Like an Expert

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Ripen Green Tomatoes to Extend Your Harvest

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Succession Planting: Here's How You Can Harvest Vegetables Season Long

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Prevent Lettuce from Bolting: 5 Ways to Beat the Bitterness

Want to Water Less and Harvest More? Try Sub-Irrigated Planters

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How to Make a Wicking Bed

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Tomato Staking Guide: How to Support Tomato Plants

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How to Grow Tomato Seeds Indoors

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Guide to Blanching in the Vegetable Garden

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Grow Vegetables in Straw Bales

Interviews: Grow Vegetables

Food Garden Life Show

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SPRING Finale: How to Grow a Climate-Change Veggie Garden

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Need Space? Harvest More from the Same Plot with Vertical Gardening

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Small-Plot Intensive Vegetable Production (SPIN Farming)

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How to Feed Soil and Plants with Worm Compost (Vermicompost)

Edible Garden Question and Answer (and what to do about Bolting Lettuce)

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Equipment for Healthy Soil, Less Toil, Minimal Till (and no more Rototiller!)

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Kitchen Scrap Gardening: From Avacado to Ginger to Citrus

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Afraid of Late Spring Frost? Low-Tech Mini-Tunnels are a Simple Solution

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How to Homestead and Live Sustainably in Your Community: Small-Scale Homesteading

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Big Harvests from a Small Space with a Vertical Vegetable Garden

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Edible Garden Artistry with Potager Gardens + School Gardens that Survive Summer

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It's Rhubarb...but It's not Rhubarb

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Artisan Tomatoes and a Tomato Addiction

Dwarf and Unusual Tomatoes

Top Crops and Seed Shopping

Electric Saws and Giant Pumpkins

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75 Frost-Free Days and Bird Song Just After Midnight

2022 Tomato Roundup

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Summer in the Vegetable Garden and Hardy Apples

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Weed-Free Bale Gardens and Mushrooms

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Virtual Consultation (1/2 hour)

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