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Dirt vs Soil

Here’s a great little article about common soil types.

Dirt will not offer fascinating meal discussion. Unless you are in a room of master gardeners, then the conversation takes on new meaning. Skilled gardeners will show you that handling this mystical blend of nutrients, natural matter, water along with air is their most [...]

CSA in Utah for 2011

Here is a listing of CSA Farms in Utah. Community Supported Agriculture farms will allow you to buy a share of weekly organic produce for the summer and harvest season. If you desire to have fresh organic veggies but don’t have the time to garden – CSA’s are a good method to deliver fresh, nutritious, [...]

Vegetable Gardening For Beginners – 6 Easy Tips To Start You Off

Healthy vegetable gardens do more than provide a beautiful area in your yard. They repay your labor with nutritious food and a healthy varied diet. Vegetable gardeners are in tune with the environment, giving back to the soil what they take from it. Abundant vegetable gardens start with healthy, rich soil. Compost and mulch [...]

Spring 2011 Garden Clinics

Classes and Events from U.S.U. Ogden and Utah Botanical Gardens:

The “Joys” of Raised Bed Gardening

Free, no pre-registration required. Thurs, April 14, 12-1:00 pm – Ogden Botanical Gardens Sat, April 16, 9-10:30 am – USU Botanical Utah House Local gardening experts and authors, Joy Bossi and Karen Bastow, will teach the many advantages [...]

Gardening Tips for 2011

Tips for best planting in raised bed vegetable gardening. Maximizing crop output with successive summer and fall plantings. Integrated Pest management using organic companion plantings and crop rotations. [...]

Seeds for Garden 2011

My Garden Plot

Gardens and Gardening…its time to plan and prepare, spring is on the way. Snow is almost off the valley floor, red breasted robins are starting to show up and magpies are pairing up. Yep, spring is definitely breaking in our neck of the woods. Its time to plan the garden plot for [...]

Lessons from 2010

Sometimes when we look back at our growing season, we are reminded just how long a growing season we can have. In my gardening journal, entries that include the weather information and planting times can be a good planning tool for next year. Reviewing our different crops success and failures are one of the better [...]

Preserving Herbs

Like most gardeners, sometimes you end up with an overload at harvest time. With herbs, it seems no matter how much cutting/pruning/using one does – you end up with a surplus in fall. Hopefully this will be an idea, easily incorporated into your kitchen to help extend your herbs season. The photo’s in this article [...]

Pea Review 2010

Lets give a cheer for cold friendly varieties of peas! The fact that they will germinate and thrive in low temperatures allow for a “three pea crop” strategy in our little garden. First of the season (as soon as soil temp’s hit 40+ during the day) you can sow snow peas directly into beds with [...]

Garlic 2010

Felt like such a failure – my garlic crop was dismal this year! I was just bummed because the root stock was coming four years old, obviously winter hardy and our past harvests have been bountiful. My root stock was healthy when planted. Popped up in spring nicely and months later, in late June the [...]