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Developing a Raised Bed Garden Plan for the Season
Developing a raised bed vegetable garden plan starts with understanding your space, soil, and crops, then building a simple, repeatable layout that you update each season. For those of you just getting started, go to whatsmygrowzone.com and enter your zip code...
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How Frost Damages Your Garden: Prevention Tips and Soil Testing for Homeowners
Frost can harm garden plants through freezing and thawing of cells or by causing ice crystals to form inside plant cells disrupting fluid movement, think of this like pipes bursting in your house during a hard freeze. Damaged plants may...
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Soil sampling or soil testing in the fall offers distinct advantages and is common practice in large-scale agricultural operations. In large-scale Ag there are additional benefits to Fall sampling, such as potential tax or other financial benefits related to...