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Do you live in a region that has a short growing season? I sure do! In my zone 5b garden, we typically get our first frost in mid- to late September, which is right around the corner. But I still want to keep harvesting things from my garden. With that in mind, my column for today is about growing a […]
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Here we are in the middle of August (already?!) and many of us are thinking ahead to the end of the growing season. A top priority for vegetable gardeners is to ripen tomatoes, melon and winter squash before the frosts get here. That’s the subject of today’s garden column, which you can read in The Spokesman-Review: Three-step pruning process will […]
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I have exciting news to share with you! I have written a new book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which will be published by Cool Springs Press in April 2021. It’s been hard keeping this a secret but now that it’s up on Amazon (*) for pre-orders, I can finally spill the beans. Do you deal with insects in your […]
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The one bright spot in this COVID-19 mess is that there are so many new vegetable gardeners. How cool is that?! I remember when I was a new gardener, it was difficult to know when to harvest vegetables so that seemed like a perfect topic for today’s garden column. You can read it in The Spokesman-Review: The perfect time to […]
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As many of you know, I’m growing fava beans this year. This marks the second time I’ve grown them, although the last time was quite a few years ago. I’ve been pointing them out in my vegetable garden tour videos but thought you’d like to see how to process them in order to use the beans in cooking. Fava bean […]
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Since there are a lot of brand-new vegetable gardeners out there this year, I thought it would be helpful to write a garden column about insects you might find in the vegetable garden and how to deal with them organically. You can read it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Bugs with benefits. In it, I discuss beneficial insects, aphids, […]
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For my column today, I thought it would be a good idea to give a vegetable garden update. I’m hoping it will be interesting and that you’ll pick up a couple of helpful tips. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: June’s deluges rotten for some garden vegetables. I hope your garden is doing well so […]
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For this week’s garden column, I wrote about our adventures in growing figs. Yes, figs in our zone 5b garden! You can read it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: With figs, it’s best to contain your excitement. Mind you, it’s not like we’ve had a whole lot of success but we’re feeling hopeful that we will actually get some […]
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Friday nights are a big deal in the Mulvihill household these days — not because it marks the end of the week. Oh no. On Friday nights, we get to watch the BBC gardening program called “Gardener’s World,” which airs in the U.K. every Friday during the growing season. That’s the topic for this week’s garden column, which you can […]
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You might recall that Bill and I created a pollinator garden last spring. What an adventure it has been! That’s the topic of this week’s garden column, which you can read in The Spokesman-Review: Pollinator project comes with lots of unexpected learning opportunities. In it, I discuss how the plants are growing and the many things I’ve learned from it. […]
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