Hello! Are you planning your garden too?
Hello Reader,
I do hope this email finds you well. How's the weather where you're at. Feel free to email me back. I don't know about you, but aside from a few bitterly, dangerously cold days and a couple snow falls, we haven't had our usual winter. I have recently begun planning our garden, but I do find myself wondering if we simply won't get our usual winter or wonder if it will be late. That would not be good for obvious reasons.
Our chickens are doing well, and our honeybees are still alive. I have pruned some of our elderberry bushes, but I have a few more that I need to prune. However, we keep getting chances of rain and I definitely don't want to prune if there'll be rain in the next few days.
Enough about that, I wanted to share with you an article I wrote to help others, especially new gardeners, to understand the importance of frost dates, length of growing season, and days to harvest. So many people, unfortunately, don't understand what these things mean and why they are important, and they end up failing. I wrote this article to help those people. PSST...I have more coming on this topic. Also, feel free to share this article with any new gardeners you know.
Here's another one, if you are unsure what the difference is between hybrid; heirloom; open-pollinated; and GM seeds are, this article is for you.
Are you ready for more?
We have some things available for you within the AGH Library. We still have so much to do, but I'm sure you can understand that this all takes time. I hope you enjoy the library! You can quickly find the AGH Library here or access it from our website. The PASSWORD is: community
If you haven't already, within the AGH Library, be sure to download your free copy of how to make bread; your gardening journal; and the newest addition of garden planning guides.
That's all I have for you today.
Have a blessed day and an abundant garden!
Shana
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