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The post Fall Fava Beans: Free Nitrogen and an Early Spring Crop appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Fall fava beans are one of the best deals in the whole garden, and I almost missed my window last year. I was so focused on getting the summer stuff cleaned up that I nearly forgot...
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The post Pruning Raspberries: When and How to Cut Them Back appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Last February I walked out to my raspberry patch and just stared at it for a while. It looked like someone had abandoned a pile of sticks next to my fence. A few brown canes flopped over...
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The post Sow Fall Carrots and Beets in July (Don’t Wait) appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. I missed this window for two years straight. Not because I didn’t know fall carrots were a thing, but because July felt wrong for planting. Everything’s already in the ground, the tomatoes...
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The post Tomato Problems in July: Cheap Fixes That Actually Work appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Something happens every July. You walk out to check your tomatoes, feeling pretty good about yourself, and suddenly the plants look like they’ve been through something. Weird faces on...