Early Spring Vegetables

Plants that Aren’t Content to Wait for Spring

March 24, 2011

Spring officially arrived just this week and there is plenty of activity out in the garden, all this in spite of the unsettled weather conditions. We’ve been teased by seventy degree temperatures recently, only to have it turn cold again the following day. This week has seen heavy rains, snow showers, thunderstorms, and now a [...]

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Spring Vegetable Garden

Flourishing during the Season’s Hunger Gap

April 9, 2010

Early spring which is usually a lean period for the vegetable garden’s yield can actually be reasonably productive for the gardener who plans ahead, keeps their eyes open to opportunity, and expands beyond the usual garden fare in order to exploit the “hunger gap.” After a brief taste of summertime with temperatures exceeding record highs [...]

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Warm Greetings from a Garden in Mexico

March 9, 2010

While many of us are still watching snow melt and feeling the bite of winter, there are others who have been basking in the warmth of spring for some time now. Today Churchill returns to share some of the activity and growth taking place in her organic vegetable garden in Patzcuaro, Mexico… We had a [...]

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Early Spring Crops for the Vegetable Garden

April 8, 2009

Chris raises a veggie garden in Western Pennsylvania and e-mailed a couple weeks ago to inquire into the timing and types of vegetables to plant out in the garden during early spring: “The weather it starting to warm up and be more consistent here in Pittsburgh now, so I am starting to plan my garden [...]

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