It’s hard to bid adieu to the summer garden. No more vine-ripened tomatoes, no snacking on fresh beans or sweet cherry toms, no walking through the garden to see what’s ripening, no pulling errant weeds (wait, that never stops!), no more just sitting and taking it all in. But wait! You don’t have to hang up your trowel just yet….
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It’s a fact: We have a fairly short growing season for warm-weather crops in north Idaho. But summer’s end doesn’t mean that the garden has to stop producing. On the contrary, planting a fall garden delivers fresh produce right through October, past the first frost, and with a little help from Mother Nature, mulch, and row covers, well into November!…
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The warm, sunny days throughout May gave our heirloom tomato plants a good start into summer. Blossoms were spotted on every plant and we even saw a few tiny green tomatoes on the cherry varieties. How wonderful! It’s going to be a great tomato year… And then it was June. And it was wet. And it was cold. And now,…
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This article was written in 2018. The dates and links have been updated for 2020. It’s officially been spring for a week now, although by looking at my chapped and frozen hands, you’d never know it. I’ve been inspecting the garden between bursts of rain, snow, and hail. Today it’s just cold outside. But in spite of these uneven winter-like…
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