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How to start a winter vegetable garden
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”550″ height=”413″ /> Why let your gardening season end, with a little creativity there are many vegetables that can continue growing right through winter. I find this fun as wells of a rewarding challenge bringing in some great produce from my garden all year round. Choosing your winter vegetables First we need to determine what vegetables to grow, given temperature and lack of light will be a reality we…

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ripe | tomato

How to ripen tomatoes indoors
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”518″ height=”346″ /> With temperatures starting to drop and heavy rains on the way it has come time to start pulling some tomatoes to ripen indoors. Tomatoes need ethylene to ripen, this occurs naturally by the tomatoes plants releasing this during the later stages of growth thus causing the tomatoes to change color. You can do this indoors with the by simply taking your tomatoes that are just beginning…

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freezing | spinach

How to freeze spinach
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”489″ height=”367″ /> I made the same mistake I did with the broccoli, by purchasing more spinach (2.5 lbs) than I could eat within a week or two at most before it goes bad. To not be wasteful I decided to to freeze some of the extra. Start bringing a large pot of water to a hard rolling boil, add as much spinach as you can fit and cover…

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broccoli | freezing

How to freeze broccoli
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”550″ height=”412″ /> I love broccoli, the problem is no one else in my family likes it with me. I am also cheap and don’t like paying $2.49 per pound at the produce section of my grocery store nor $3.69 per pound in the frozen section. I had a simple solution to this problem buy 3 pounds 3 lbs. ($1 a pound) of broccoli from Costco. Though like I…

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organic | pests | tomato

Deterring mystery pest from eating my tomatoes: New Updates
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”549″ height=”412″ /> This is not the first time visitors have stolen tomatoes from my garden, but this year the mystery pest has gotten every ripe tomato I have grown this year, which given out cold/wet summer has only been about a dozen ripe tomatoes. I normally go with the philosophy of this land is owned by my neighborhood animals first and I am fine sharing a tomato, some…

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Stealing natures free blackberries
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”549″ height=”412″ /> Normally blackberries are in their prime in early August, but with our cold winter they are just starting to come around now. After a little bit of hunting my partners and I found a few good stretches of bushes and had out one gallon bucket of blackberries filled in no time. In the past I have created the following with these seemingly never-ending supply of free…

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using used tea bags to cover pot drainage holes
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”550″ height=”309″ /> I saw this interesting suggestion I thought I should share. Instead of putting your tea bags in your garbage (or compost) place them in the bottom of your pots before planting. This helps keep the soil from draining out when you water and allows some nutrient to seep into your soil. Via LifeHacker

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How to cure garlic
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”488″ height=”368″ /> Last year it was raining when I pulled my garlic and it almost seems like it hasn’t stopped running up to a couple of weeks ago. So unfortunately I was unable to properly let my garlic lay out in the sun for a few days to completely dry out. I did the best I could and braided the garlic and hung it up in my garage…

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garden maintenance | raspberries

Trimming the raspberry bushes
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”489″ height=”367″ /> This weekend I decided to clean up the yard a bit and do some of my later in the season chores a little early. One of these on the list was trimming my new (second year) raspberry bushes. The first step was getting these bushes under control, if I had a larger space I probably would build a more stable construction for better airflow and make…

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Pacific Northwest | tomato

Go tomatoes go
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”489″ height=”367″ /> I am a bit jealous seeing pictures across the country/world of everyone’s baskets of tomatoes, but I am getting close to my first few tomatoes on their modest vines starting to turn red…I see some salsa in my near future.

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book | organic | product review | tomato

Tomatoland: How modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit review
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

There is a very good reason why tomatoes are the most popular vegetable grown in the home garden, you can’t beat the taste of a home grown tomato. Tomatoland provides and exposÃ© of specifically the Florida tomato industry showing many of the negative, though there are still a few positives explaining the history and the process of getting this previously alluring fruit to your local grocery store. After reading…

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carrot | leeks | onions | parsley | stock | vegetables

How to make vegetable stock
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

width=”549″ height=”412″ /> Vegetable stock is a great way to infuse some great flavors and nutrients to your food. There are the obvious additions such as soups, but I also like to add to staples such as rice and mashed potatoes and even my most fussy vegetable eaters do not even notice. I didn’t have a lot of spare vegetables so I made a small batch just for the…

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