Vegetables
Your Vegetable Garden in October
Read about how to help your raised bed or in-ground vegetable garden in October: enriching soil, extending harvest, cover crops and more.
Read MoreTen Tips For New Vegetable Gardeners
Whether you plant a few vegetables in pots, a small herb garden, a raised bed, or a large, in-ground garden, here are ten tips for success if you’re new to growing edibles.
Read MoreGrowing Peppers on Cape Cod
It’s time to plant pepper seeds indoors and to make a plan for which peppers to grow in your Cape Cod garden. We offer 10 tips for success.
Read MoreHow To Harvest Garlic
Late June or early July is the time to harvest garlic on Cape Cod. Here’s how and when to dig your garlic crop.
Read MoreTen Tips For Beginning Vegetable Gardeners
These ten tips will help vegetable gardeners to have a larger harvest and keep pests away.
Read MoreYour Vegetable Garden This Week
Now that it’s August, there are several things that vegetable growers should be aware of. Here is a checklist of actions that you can be taking to make your garden most productive. Pick your vegetables promptly! Although this seems obvious, many people either forget to harvest daily or are unaware that some crops require prompt…
Read MoreGrowing Healthy Tomatoes on Cape Cod
If you grow any vegetables at all, chances are that you want to raise a couple tomatoes. Since the flavor of a homegrown tomato far surpasses the store bought fruit, many choose to devote a sunny space to this plant. But raising great tomatoes can be challenging on Cape Cod, primarily due to early blight.…
Read MoreDiscover Wellness ~ Plant Cold-Hardy Vegetables
There are several ways that planting cold-hardy vegetables help people to discover wellness. First, putting these plants in the garden in early spring lifts our spirits and gets our bodies moving. We are finally out and about in the natural world, and this alone is beneficial. Secondly, in our gardens we can grow food that…
Read MoreMid-July In The Vegetable Garden
The heat is on, and that means that our vegetable gardens should be growing gangbusters. Here’s a checklist of what to do in the veggie garden in mid-July. Weed, weed and weed. Most of us find that the weeds that were tiny over the Fourth of July are now monsters! Pull them quickly and often.…
Read MoreIs It Too Late To Plant Vegetables?
Or… “Can I still plant vegetables in the garden in late June?” The answer to the first questions is no, it’s not too late. The answer to the second question is yes! Frankly, you can plant most vegetables now and many can be sown or placed in the garden through the rest of the summer.…
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