Mike Fitzgerald

May 15, 2023 | themeateater.com | Misty Newcomb |Mike Fitzgerald |Jordan Tony

It’s easy to get caught up in thinking that you must have a lot of space to make gardening worthwhile. But even with a small amount of space, you can actually produce quite a bit of produce by using the square-foot garden method. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of a square-foot garden, it’s a method of gardening popularized by author Mel Bartholomew that typically occurs in a small space.

May 10, 2023 | themeateater.com | Misty Newcomb |Jordan Tony |Mike Fitzgerald |Jenna Rozelle

Once the days grow longer and we start seeing little buds on trees and daffodils popping up around the periphery of the yard, it’s easy to want to get some plants in the dirt. And though we can’t grow a lot of the vegetables that require the mid-summer heat to thrive, there is actually a lot that we can still plant–even if it is before our last frost. There’s a whole group of frost-tolerant plants that will not only survive a frost, they will also thrive in cooler temperatures.