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February 21, 2013 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
We’re always talking about extending your growing season with floating row covers, low tunnels, and hoop houses. These all protect your plants from frost. Today we’ll give you easy instructions…
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February 21, 2013 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
When it comes to protecting your plants from frosts and freezes it’s important to understand where the heat is coming from. Soil absorbs heat during the day and radiates it back at night. Our Agribon…
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July 27, 2011 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Create climate change in your own garden! Want to make the summer cooler, and warm up the fall and winter? It takes just a few hours to get started. Framework The framework for dealing with these three…
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April 29, 2011 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Let’s hear it for the summer tomato harvest! Get your tomatoes growing organically with our new video on tomato transplanting, culture, supports, and fertilizer. We have organic gardening…
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March 31, 2011 - Amber
The last few weeks we have had horrendous weather (horrible for gardeners who want to plant but have to wait). On this, the second day of beautiful springlike sunshine, I’d like to take a moment…
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March 28, 2011 - Kalita from Peaceful Valley
Have you had enough yet? What is helping me through this soggy spring (Yes Spring, Happy Equinox!) are my cold frames and covered beds. Remember the ridiculously warm snap we had for about five weeks…
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March 26, 2011 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Row covers solve a multitude of gardening problems. Made of lightweight fabric, they allow sunlight, air, and water to pass through to your plants. Well known as “season extenders” to keep…
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December 7, 2009 - Autumn from Peaceful Valley
We have three raised beds with simple PVC hoop housed built over them. I have agribon floating row cover secured over the hoops to prolong our growing season (we’re in zone 7 at 2000’ in Grass…
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April 6, 2009 - Autumn from Peaceful Valley
Contributed by Lauren from Dropstone Farms on Bainbridge Island, WA. [With additions from Peaceful Valley.] We have been meaning to write about this for a while, and today friend and blog-reader Melinda…
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April 1, 2009 - GrowOrganic
It happens every year—the weather warms up and the impulse to plant becomes irresistible. It’s spring! Let’s go!, you say. And lately, it seems to happen every year—a sneak-attack…
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