by Debbie Piesen Garden planning can be a complicated business. But for most home gardens, your main concerns are fitting everything in the most space efficient way, rotation, and planning for succession planting. These factors are covered by Southern Exposure’s Garden Planner, a very useful tool for the small scale home grower. When we start … Continue reading Garden Planning for Seed Saving
Our neighbor Pam Dawling, a contributing writer at Growing for Market, has just released her first book: Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres. Pam has been gardening here in the Southeast for many years, and we’re delighted to have this resource, with so much wisdom relevant to our bio-region. We’ve asked … Continue reading Guest Blog Post: Starting Seedlings
Are you looking at the new USDA zone map, thinking that now that you’re one zone warmer you might try growing peanuts or southern peas this year? There are lots of of techniques and equipment for extending your growing season in cool climates where hot-season crops barely get enough heat and time to ripen before … Continue reading Getting More Hot-Season Veg from your Cool-Climate Garden