To go hand-in-hand with previous: Fall planting calendar generator.

For the gardener’s: Avg Freeze/Frost Occurence data for MA towns.

Related to the previous post. Find the closest farmer’s market to you.

That time of year again! Where to find pick-your-own fruit around Boston. Belkin, while expensive, had both exquisite fields and strawberries last Saturday.

The most profitable plants in your vegetable garden. I don’t care, I’m still growing my broccoli and beets.

How to grow vegetables upside down. I’m trying three tomato plants this year in addition to the traditional way.

The Washington Post on Jefferson’s experiments in gardening at Monticello.

Garden Party

Last year I missed the window for the cool season, early spring planting. I had to spend late March, early April pulling up the grass, building the raised beds in the yard and rehabbing/importing soil. I didn’t actually get any plants into the ground until late May. Sure, like a tone deaf man at a karaoke bar, I tried to give it a go with some lettuce and brussel sprouts anyway. The results were not exactly Martha Stewart and rainbows. The heat just kept a foot on the necks of those plants and they never went anywhere. That corner of the garden was like an abandoned block of Detroit. The one real failure in last year’s garden experiment.

The NYTimes is running a blog by a first-time gardener. Worth keeping an eye on.

For a new gardener, there are a lot of books, magazines and websites that tell you what to plant and how to do it, but I searched high and low for any of those to tell me when to do it. I realize there are a lot of different zones, so broad generalities wouldn’t work, [...]