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STORING GARDEN PRODUCE: Have you ever looked around your kitchen after a harvest and thought, what in the world am I going to do with all of this produce? You CAN store it all. Just follow some of these tips for how to store fruits and vegetables from the garden and get the most out of your garden produce.
What do you do with all of that leftover material you have in your yard in the fall? There are so many ways to use it. Why use it to mulch your garden?
It’s hard to keep track of what to plant each month, so here is a vegetable garden planting guide to what you grow when. It will help a lot!
Growing sweet potatoes is easy and it’s exciting. It’s amazing when you see that so much has been going on under ground. Learn to grow sweet potatoes!
October is a busy garden time as we prepare for the first frost of the year in Oklahoma. It’s time to put a lot of the garden to bed for winter. Prepping the garden for winter in the fall will give you a much better garden to start with in the spring. What you do in the garden in October is important!
September is finding us a little cooler temperatures and a little rain here and there. Since the temps are cooler, our tomatoes, tomatillos, and peppers are starting to produce again. The garden in September is kind of the second wind of growing.
Butterflies, bees, flies…pollinators! Without pollinators, our food doesn’t grow. Did you know butterfly populations are on the decline? Butterflies need you. Be a butterfly hero.
August brings with it a lot of excessive heat in Oklahoma so our main garden chore is keeping whatever we can alive. Once the temperatures pass 90 or 95, things begin to wilt, dry out quickly, and most plants won’t produce until temperatures cool down. The garden in August in Oklahoma is surviving!
Pollinators are rapidly declining and we need them to survive. Make your garden a certified wildlife habitat and help pollinators thrive.
The garden in July is producing a lot and getting out of hand at the same time, so there are plenty of garden chores to do.
