garden-groove

The “bones” of a garden involve its soil, and trying to improve that soil year after year is a pretty important factor to gardening success.

If your timing is good, you can keep the produce on your dinner table throughout the growing season.

If your timing is good, you can keep the produce on your dinner table throughout the growing season.

One of the enduring lessons I’ve learned from years of plodding around a vegetable garden is that just when you think you have it all figured out you get totally surprised by the way one of your crops comes out that year. Learn from that.

Vegetable gardening can be about more than just producing a yield. If you focus on it, your vegetable plot can also be a part of your overall aesthetic landscaping efforts and something you’re proud to show off.

The name of the gardening game this time of year is "thinning and weeding" -- ripping out a lot of that stuff you just planted.

If you’re into veggie gardening for the long haul you can have certain things come back year after year.

Not so fast. You may be chomping at the bit to get the garden planted, but it may be too soon for some items.

Gardener John Schroeder's found tilling his garden in the spring is a lot like cleaning a sheet of ice for hockey.

Townsquare Media's John Schroeder introduces us to his weekly column on gardening in Central Minnesota.