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If you are a beginner gardener with little or no experience, it is helpful to start small and easy for your first vegetable garden. A successful crop with minimal effort and investment will help a new gardener to learn and experiment a little at a time.
It is important to know which vegetables perform best overall in the general Midwest. The conditions of your specific region will also be important.
Any cool season vegetable can be planted in spring or fall. Most of us tend toward fast maturing leafy edibles in spring and root vegetables that are protected from hard frost and even freezes long into fall.
Vegetable garden care and maintenance tips for a productive edible garden.
Helpful tips and important information for growing edibles. New and experienced gardeners will all find useful pointers.
Getting annuals, perennials, vegetable gardens, shrubs, trees and the lawn through periods of extreme heat is a challenge throughout the Midwest and North. Southern regions typically grow different plants that are much more heat tolerant.
There are a few basic things you need to know about planning and starting a garden for fruits and vegetables.
There are many advantages to clearing out your vegetable gardens, even though you should leave some plants stand in your perennial gardens.
Garlic is a great vegetable to grow for beginners, and there are three different types of garlic to choose from: hardneck, softneck, and elephant. Hardneck garlic is the hardiest and most commonly grown in the North and Midwest.
Mulching our vegetable gardens, just like our flower gardens, produces many important benefits. Choosing the best mulch is important and may depend on the condition of your soil, climate conditions, availability, cost and personal preference.