Hugelkultur: The Better Gardening Method Your (European) Ancestors Used

Ahhhh, the lazy days of summer! The mere mention of it brings up images of sunbathing at the beach or sitting on a patio sipping a frosty beverage. For the home vegetable gardener, summer means [ … ]

Summer may be the peak of gardening, but cool, colorful fall can bring its own delicious harvest to your dinner table. The cooler, often rainy days of autumn give gardeners a second chance to harvest [ … ]

Now that you have harvested all of your veggies, gardening is over, right? Wrong. Now we start preparing our beds for next year’s harvest. Preparing your garden to go through winter will make it easier to plant next year’s crops. When all is harvested from the garden, you can do one of two things. The first is to pull the plants for composting and plant a cover crop. The other option is to leave the plants where they are, crushing them to the ground… [ … ]