Your Northern Garden
Mary SchierCold-climate? No problem. A monthly newsletter on what to do each season to grow a productive garden in the North plus plants, how-tos and fun.
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July's Vegetable Tally + August Tasks
Do you tally your harvests? Some gardeners weigh every ounce of fruit and vegetable picked from their gardens and keep diligent records of their produce pounds. That has never been me.
Until this year. Because I am growing more food on my...
Garden Basics: Compost
A version of this article originally appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of Northern Gardener magazine.
For experienced gardeners, compost is black gold. Simple and easy to make at home, compost improves soil texture and tilth, making it loose...
What You Learn on Garden Tours
It’s garden tour season, and I’m there for it. I’ll visit about 20 gardens on tours this year, significantly below past years but still enough to find new proof that some of the old garden advice is still the best and that gardeners are alw...
Four Garden Challenges Now
Watering, lily beetles and way too many zucchini
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Favorite Tomato Varieties for Cold Climates
I harvested my first tomato Monday morning, July 6. That’s not bad for a northern gardener. It was a Stupice—pronounced Stu-peach—tomato, a Czech heirloom that ripens in less than 65 days. The plant is a short indeterminate (vining) variety...
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Northern native. Gardener, writer, growing where I'm planted.
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