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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November 30, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
USDA Zone 7 is typically considered too cold for olive trees. But we’re gardeners, which means we want to grow beautiful trees that aren’t recommended for our zones. That goes both ways too—for…
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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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February 8, 2011 - Amber
With the recent warm spell of the past week and a half, at my house, we are in full swing production of seedling transplants in order to plant as soon as the last frost date occurs. The weather has been…
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May 20, 2010 - Kalita from Peaceful Valley
Here in sunny California, we are having a long, cold, wet spring. What is a gardener to do? Here are a few ideas that I have been using in my garden to work with and around the weather. We have,…
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