Beginner Garden Techniques

Gardening Tips

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Ten of Kenny Point’s pointers on growing a higher yielding and better looking vegetable garden with less work:
1.) Raise those beds. Loosen your native soil two shovel-lengths deep (if possible) and work 3 or 4 inches of compost or other organic matter into it. Use stakes and string to mark off beds that are about [...]

Vegging Out

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

(From the Harrisburg Patriot-News, August 18, 2005)
Take one look at Kenny Point’s vegetable garden, and it’s obvious he’s doing something right. And different.
This suburban Lower Paxton Township back-yard garden is a far cry from the fairly typical vegetable garden you see this time of year - ones that have degenerated into ignored, sprawling, weed-infested, groundhog-chewed, [...]

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