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Eating Local: Planting Your Fall Garden

Becky Striepe — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:18 +0000

[photo by Wanko]

Fall is getting close. The official first day is September 22nd, but right now is the perfect time to get your fall food garden going! This is a wonderful time for gardening, with pleasant weather and fewer bugs around than the summertime. There are all sorts of great, hearty veggies that thrive in cooler weather!

Fall Veggies
Good vegetables for a Fall garden are ones that can withstand cooler weather. Cruciferous vegetables do well. So do root veggies and certain greens. There are even edible flowers you can plant this time of year! Here is a quick list of veggies that love the Fall as much as I do.

Off the Well-Trod Path: Alternate Routes to Victory Garden Triumph

Pamela Price — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:15:04 +0000

Guest contributor Pamela Price is the founder of Red, White & Grew, a blog devoted to “Promoting the Victory Garden Revival and other simple, earth-friendly endeavors as bipartisan, patriotic acts in an age of uncertainty.”

As mentioned here last month, folks short on fertile land but eager to grow their own vegetables can opt for container-based Victory Gardens with astonishing results.

Below are four more clever garden alternatives worth exploration. Some are old, some are new…but each illustrates that, when it comes to cultivating food, we humans are remarkably imaginative beings.

Just as our parents, grandparents, and grandparents adapted best practices in growing their own food during WWI & WWII, our concept of the modern Victory Garden movement can (and should) include a variety of strategies to ensure success!

A Victory Garden Planted in Patio Pots

Pamela Price — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:33:08 +0000

Vegetable gardens are making headlines this summer.

From local and regional press reports about a rise in garden-related sales in the face of the economic downturn to the Internet buzz generated by those San Francisco-bound locavores eager to see the city’s new civic center victory garden, there’s plenty to spark interest in getting one’s dirt under one’s nails.

Yet if you’ve got only a small lot or just a patio to work with, you may feel out of the loop with the home garden craze. Prepare to join in the fun: a surprising amount of fresh produce can be grown in ordinary pots and planters.

Just ask Shannon & Jason Mullet-Bowlsby of Seattle.