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Salad Tables 2.0
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This is a good time of year for cleaning up tools, getting containers ready for starting plants, and maybe even building a Salad Table! The first University of Maryland salad tables were constructed at the Home & Garden Information Center…
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Seeds and Seed Catalog Jargon
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Seed catalogs arrive this time of year with appealing photos of vegetable crops that buoy our hopes for a bountiful garden. The sheer number of vegetable, flower, and herb offerings is breathtaking, with seed companies offering 20 to 40 new…
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Winterizing Figs and Planting Cover Crops in a Changing Climate
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Planning, preparation, timing, and flexibility are becoming more important for food gardeners trying to adapt to climate change. For example, some gardeners are planting more late crops and reaping larger and longer harvests of leafy greens in the fall. But…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, Climate Change, Figs, winter, Winterizing
Vegetable Crops to Plant Now
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Mid-September is a transition time for vegetable gardeners. You may be doing some garden clean-up, recording the successes and failures you were too busy to think about when they happened, and deciding how to manage the soil this fall and…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, Cold weather crops, Cool season vegetables, no-till, row covers, salad, Spinach
Hydroponic Vegetable Garden Puts Food on the Table
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Growing vegetable crops without soil is practiced around the world from household systems up to large commercial vertical farms. Meet Vilma and Dave Anderson, my friends and fellow vegetable gardeners, who introduced me to their successful, home-made hydroponics set-up. Water…
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Leafy Greens for the Summer Garden
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The end of the spring lettuce and spinach harvest doesn’t mean we have to wait until fall to enjoy home-grown leafy greens. In addition to the kales and collards we know and love there is a world of heat tolerant…
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Pollinators and Food Gardens
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. estimates that at least 75% of the world’s food crops depend, at least in part, on pollinators. Honey bees and a host of native bees, beetles, and butterflies are essential for pollinating…
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