Preparing for fall frost in the veggie garden
This is the time of year my clients ask how to prepare for the onset of winter in the veggie garden,
This is the time of year my clients ask how to prepare for the onset of winter in the veggie garden,
What a proud Dirt Diva I was last year when I had the chance to work with these new gardeners and help them achieve their goal of feeding themselves and
(Click on above image to open more images of this garden). Come on, be brave! Do away with your lawn and build your food plot right onto your house!
(Click on above image to view more photos of this garden). Photos showing the expansion of a "potager" style vegetable garden in Damascus,
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[Click on above image to open more images] Another potager style vegetable garden, this one designed by prominent Hudson Valley author and gardener Lee Reich for a Bethel family, became my responsibility to assist the owner in expanding and maintaining in 2010.
[Click on the image above for more images] I took this garden under my wing in 2011 and helped the owners kick their veggie production up a notch from what it was.
[Click on the image above to open more images] This little project was the closest thing to an instant garden I've built yet. Within 8 hours, my helper and I transformed a bare patch of ground in Lew Beach into a fenced raised bed veggie garden (with transplants)!
[Click on the above image to open more images] The challenge of this garden was how to make it fit the needs of the family. It was designed by another talented gardener, but in my opinion was way too big for the family of 2,
[Click on the above image to open more images] The new owner of this wooded property called me in to design a terraced vegetable garden as part of a larger plan to transform the land into an edible landscape. There were a lot of challenges to the plan, the number one being