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So What Happens During a Freeze?

If you live where tomatoes are still in the ground and a light frost is expected, try covering the plants to give them a few more days to ripen after the cold passes.

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If You Can’t Beat It, Raise It

Raised beds in a garden.If wet, soggy soil or heavy, rocky clay keeps your garden from thriving, build a raised bed. Literally a bed above the ground

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Select a Good Site

Select a good site

Plant a garden where you can provide these things.

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Drought-Busting Techniques

Drought Busting techniques

All these things add up to great water savings that can keep your garden going in dry times. Remember that vegetables are about 90% water. No water, no harvest!

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Make a Note

Make a note

Keeping notes will help you remember successes and failures so that you can get better each year. Keep a tally of how many tomatoes or squash you harvest. You may run out of lines on your paper.

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Begin When the Soil Tells You To

Begin when the soil tells you too

You have been waiting all winter. You have reviewed your notes from last year. You have planned where each vegetable and herb will go this year. The birds have begun to chirp, the days have been getting warmer and the rain has been falling. Frost and freezing weather look as if they have finally gone for the year.

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Good Tools Work for You

Good tools work for you

Tools do make a difference in most every endeavor, especially gardening. Having tools that fit you and are well made can make even the most difficult job a little easier. You don't have to buy every gardening gadget on the market. Just a few key tools can make all the difference.

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Plant Tomatoes Deep, Deep, Deep

Plant tomatoes deep, deep.

Each Bonnie tomato label urges you to plant tomatoes so that a full 80% of the plant is underground. That means that if you buy a 10-inch tall plant, all but the top two inches is buried. Why? Because the plant will have a better root system. Better roots mean better tomatoes.

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Bonnie Peat Pots Are Easy!

As part of our Growing Greener campaign, Bonnie peat pots have spared the use of more than one million pounds of plastic. We invite you try this easy and earth-friendly way to start your vegetables and herbs.

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Are You New to Vegetable Gardening? Read This First.

New to gardening, read this first

Get ready to enjoy the best vegetables you've ever eaten.

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