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Do you grow zucchini, squash, pumpkins or other vining crops? You need this sturdy & economical trellis for climbing crops!

Square Foot Gardening: How to Construct Sturdy, Economical Trellises for Climbing Crops

As you may know by now, we’ve undertaken two key experiments in our organic vegetable garden this year. You might want to read these two posts for the background story: Sneak Peak: This Year’s Garden Experiment and This Year’s Garden Experiments, Take Two. Our first experiment revolves around a concept called Square Foot Gardening.  (See book…

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4x4 Square Foot Garden Box 2012

This Year’s Garden Experiments, Take Two

This year, we’re trying two new experiments in our Yankee Homestead Organic Garden.  Both are pretty major. [Want to read more about our previous garden and its challenges?  Check out Sneak Peak: This Year’s Garden Experiment.] Before I describe and show pictures of Experiment Número Uno, I’ll explain how it all went awry before it had…

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Garden Seeds 2013

Sneak Peak: This Year’s Garden Experiment

Newly liberated from The Suburbs, our first few gardening seasons out in the country in Northern Virginia were met with a great deal of ambition.  Perhaps a bit too much ambition.

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