Frost!

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Yep, we had it -- a killing frost. With night temps dipping into the twenties, the garden got fried. Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beans, and corn look so sad, all blackened and droopy. But, luckily,...

Q and A: planting carrots and possible cross pollination in squash

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Planting carrots What is the best way to plant carrots? I have not had much luck lately. Benay Cole Granite Falls, Minnesota Carrots can be a little finicky, but they are definitely do-able. Don't plant them too early,...

The signs of spring are all around us

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Even though when you look at my front flower bed, heaped with dirty snow, ice, and some wood ashes and say "yuck," if you really look closely, you'll see little daffodils coming up. I...

Q and A: Mesquite beans and volunteer potatoes

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Mesquite beans I was just wondering, can you eat mesquite right off the tree, and do they have to be ripe, or does it matter? Pete Bowie, Arizona You can eat green mesquite beans off the tree, cooked...

Snow, snow, and more snow

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We nearly always get an April blizzard so when we passed through much of April with warm temperatures, we figured it missed us this year. Well… kind of. We didn't get a blizzard but...