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Frank's Garden
Those of you who follow the Million Gardens Movement, likely know that its co-founder and publisher of mothership Modern Farmer magazine,...

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May 21, 20217 min read
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Hardening Off Made Easy
For seasoned and new gardeners alike, the concept of ‘hardening off’ can be shady, but don’t let uncertainty prevent you from digging in...

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May 14, 20217 min read
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Cool Cucumbers
This ancient 'vegetable melon' (a fruit, botanically speaking) remains calm and cool even when things get heated in the food garden....

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Apr 30, 202110 min read
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Mighty Carrots
This humble root vegetable has noble roots and a colourful past, yet it remains the subject of many a dad joke. Urban legend has it that...

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Apr 23, 202111 min read
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Peppers: A Hot Topic
Sweet or spicy, scalding or icy, these crunchy, juicy, edible, smooth and shiny orbs all come from one big happy family called Capsicum...

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Apr 15, 202116 min read
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Tomato Tips and Tricks
Growing these most luscious and voluptuous of fruits (yes, fruits) from seeds or from seedlings is easier than you think. The mass...

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Apr 8, 202113 min read
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Super Duper Spinach
When my children were tiny, I told them that sleep was delicious, and that spinach was super duper. They believed me, and in some small...

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Apr 1, 202111 min read
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'Sweet' Peas
Botanically speaking, peas are fruits, which explains a few things. The pods are the fruits by definition, the peas inside the pods are...

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Mar 24, 202110 min read
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Radical Root Veg
Growing radishes on earth and in space, is easier than you think. The very first seeds I direct sow into my spring garden are root...

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Mar 18, 20217 min read
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Easy Peasy, First Greens of Spring
I couldn't wait, I admit it. Not one week, and certainly not four. Three weeks have passed now since I sowed the first hopeful seeds of...

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Mar 11, 20216 min read
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Water is Life
"Water is the driving force of all nature," said the humanist and artist Leonardo da Vinci. While that was an enlightened and poetic...

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Mar 3, 20214 min read
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Growing Food Security
At its most basic, food security grows in living soil. Therein lies the simple solution to food insecurity, but also the problem. We are,...

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Feb 25, 20214 min read
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Just Dive In
Gardening, like parenting, is largely intuitive. At this time of year, when juggling too many seeds with too little seed starting space,...

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Feb 18, 20214 min read
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Love Grows
Gardens hold the secrets to unconditional love and to life, and to giving. In our home, this Feast of St. Valentine's Day week has, as do...

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Feb 11, 20216 min read
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Mimicking Nature's Deep Freeze
Alpine strawberries are too crazy delicious not to grow in abundance, from seed. The doing of it as an early-season indoor project is a...

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Feb 3, 20216 min read
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Growing a Garden Family
When is the best time to start? It can be a seductive winter ritual, sifting through seed catalogues online and in-hand, planning and...

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Jan 27, 20215 min read
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My Winter Garden
"The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the...

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Jan 24, 20214 min read
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Garden to Table Menu Planning
Slow-roasted and oven-dried tomatoes, mixed herb and garlic scape pappardelle, thyme-roasted beets, caraway cucumber salad, and...

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Jan 21, 20217 min read
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Swales and Rain Gardens
In most places in North America, January is the perfect month to embark on a water management and conservation plan for the growing...

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Jan 5, 20216 min read
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Gift Idea: Small Batch Kimchi-Spiced Carrot or Radish Pickles + Marinade
It isn't too late to make 'gourmet food store quality' gifts for friends and family, and do it for as little as $0.80 per jar. If you...

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Dec 17, 20206 min read
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