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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.

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

Select a Good Site

Plant a garden where you can provide these things.

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!

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.

Begin When the Soil Tells You To

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.

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.

Plant Tomatoes Deep, 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.

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.

Are You New to Vegetable Gardening? Read This First.

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

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Learn & Grow Library

So What Happens During a Freeze?

If You Can’t Beat It, Raise It

Select a Good Site

Drought-Busting Techniques

Make a Note

Begin When the Soil Tells You To

Good Tools Work for You

Plant Tomatoes Deep, Deep, Deep

Bonnie Peat Pots Are Easy!

Are You New to Vegetable Gardening? Read This First.

Find Frost Dates

What's Your Garden Zone?

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	Learn & Grow Library You are here: Gardening Basics 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. Read More.. If You Can’t Beat It, Raise It If wet, soggy soil or heavy, rocky clay keeps your garden from thriving, build a raised bed. Literally a bed above the ground Read More.. Select a Good Site Plant a garden where you can provide these things. Read More.. 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! Read More.. 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. Read More.. Begin When the Soil Tells You To 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. Read More.. 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. Read More.. Plant Tomatoes Deep, 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. Read More.. 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. Read More.. Are You New to Vegetable Gardening? Read This First. Get ready to enjoy the best vegetables you've ever eaten. Read More.. Previous Page \| Next Page	Find Frost Dates See color-coded maps for first and last frosts in your area. What's Your Garden Zone? Learn about USDA plant hardiness zones. Get Bonnie's Newsletter Get tips and advice on how to best grow your Bonnie vegetables, herbs, and flowers.