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The Weekend Box That Keeps Your Garden Growing After Frost Takes Everyone Else's
A cold frame is a bottomless box with a clear lid, and it buys hardy greens weeks of extra growing time. What to build it from, where to put it, and how not to cook the lettuce.
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Everyone Amends Their Soil in Spring. That's Months Too Late.
Lime takes months to move soil pH, so April is the wrong time to apply it. Test your beds in September, amend in October, and let winter do the work.
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Your Winter Squash Will Rot by Thanksgiving Because of How You Cut It Off the Vine
Squash that goes soft in November was lost the day you picked it. How to tell when it's ripe, how to cut it, and the one type you should never warm-cure.
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Sow Spinach Now, Ignore It All Winter, Cut It in April
Spinach sown in late summer sits out the winter alive and starts growing again before you can dig. The timing, the mulch, and the varieties that survive it.
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That Pepper Plant Is a Perennial, and Composting It in October Is a Waste
Peppers are tender perennials, not annuals. How to cut yours back, bring it inside before frost, and get ripe fruit weeks earlier next summer.
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Take Cuttings From These Herbs Now or Buy Them All Again in May
The basil and rosemary you already own can make next year's plants for free, but only if you take the cuttings while it is still hot. How to do it, and which herbs to skip.
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