Key Points Raised beds, whether small and portable, medium and pre-fab, or large and custom, are easy on your back and knees, ...

SAUK COUNTY GARDENER Jeannie Manis Sauk County Master Gardeners Association “There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has ...

In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens, fruits.” The ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

February is whizzing by and before we know it, planting season will be upon us. Avid gardeners have been poring over seed catalogs, inventorying their home seed libraries and planning this year’s ...

Thinking about starting a garden or changing up your current setup? Raised garden beds have been all over social media and gardening blogs for years. They look tidy and promise better soil and ...

When the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference recently in Baton Rouge, I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and ...

Join Mark from Self Sufficient Me as he harvests Brake Light potatoes from his raised garden bed in a subtropical climate.

It is no surprise that raised garden beds are becoming increasingly popular, and learning the best layouts for your raised beds will maximize growing space. Raised beds have many advantages over ...