| Kitchen Gardening in Winter
Discover how to garden in your kitchen during winter—by growing from veggie stumps or starting from seeds—with The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club |
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 | Dear Winter Gardener,
Everybody needs a food garden. No matter how small your garden and meager your harvest, the fresh food that you produce there will will be tasty and nutritious. It will connect you with the natural world.
Okay, maybe you don’t have much or any outdoor space. Or perhaps it’s not spring and seed packets are hard to find. But you could also start an indoor salad garden by using the produce from your local grocery store!
Did you know that you can grow celery from a stump? Just cut the bottom 2 inches from a bunch of celery (refrigerate the stalks for later use) and “plant” it, root side down, in a saucer of water or in 1 to 2 inches of moist sand or potting soil. Leaves, then tender stalks, will slowly emerge from the center. When the stump is well rooted, transplant it into a larger pot. You’ll be able to harvest tender stems and leaves for soups and salads for many months.
You can do the same with romaine, onions, and fresh herbs. And there are other methods for sweet potatoes, beets, radishes, and turnips in the January 2019 issue of The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! digital magazine—a subscription to which is included with your membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club. |
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| Starting Seeds | Long before the final frost, you can start the seeds for your garden indoors. A fast, almost foolproof, space-saving, no-mess way to start plants begins with a damp paper towel. You can spread rows of seeds across half of it, then fold the unseeded half over to keep the seeds moist.
Then, if you smooth the folded, seeded towel and slide it into a plastic bag, keeping it flat, you can store this in a place that is 70° to 80°F and wait for the seeds to start growing! Every couple of days, check the seed towel to make sure that it is not too dry, then sprinkle a little water on it with your fingers if it is.
In the days leading up to the germination date given on your seed packet, hold the plastic bag up to light to see if any seeds have sprouted. When they have sprouted, transplant them to flats or individual pots filled with potting soil.
Learn what to do once your seeds sprout in the February 2016 issue of The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! digital magazine—which is also included with your membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club. |  | | Planning Your Cold-Resistant Outdoor Garden | We may be in the dead of winter, but you can start planning your outdoor garden right now. The secret to a bountiful early harvest is choosing the right seeds. As you peruse catalogs or seed kiosks, keep this in mind: Choose cold-resistant vegetables to plant this spring, and well begun, you’ll be half done.
Snap peas are cold resistant but not tolerant of heat, so get them into the ground 4 to 6 weeks before the last frost has passed. One of the most versatile and nutritious greens, spinach (Spinacia oleracea), is simple to manage and can be harvested multiple times in a season. It’s best planted in early spring while temperatures are still cool, about 1 week after the last frost has passed. Beets are another cold-hardy and frost-resistant root crop that flourishes in northern gardens.
Learn more about planting these cold-resistant crops in the February 2018 issue of The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! digital magazine—yet another valuable resource that is included with your membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club. |
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| If you want more gardening tips and much more useful information, wit, and wisdom, you can get it all in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club! | With your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership, you get everything that you need to be ready for your garden, including The Old Farmer’s Almanac, our new Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide, the best-selling 2019 Gardening Wall Calendar, and The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA!, our monthly digital magazine that includes articles on gardening, weather, and other content not found in the print edition. It’s a great way to keep up-to-date on Almanacky topics throughout the year.
With an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership, you’ll learn more about:
- How to keep your houseplants healthy throughout the winter
- Tips for winter landscaping, including the plants that look best in the colder months
- All of the kitchen uses for snow and ice
- How to grow nearly three dozen bulbs, including what kind of soil, light, and spacing is best for each plant
- Planting by the Moon’s phase, including both the classic planting dates and the Moon-favorable planting dates for more than 50 common vegetables
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| Get your Charter Membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club today—with resources to inspire you in the garden. From time-honored country gardening tips to modern garden gadgets, come share in the bountiful harvest! | With your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership, you get everything you need to keep your garden at its greenest:
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- 2019 Gardening Wall Calendar: Our perennial best-seller for over 40 years! Rich illustrations accompany useful gardening tips on everything from planting to preserving.
- The special softcover, hangable edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, loaded with the tips, trivia, and insights that make it a family favorite.
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! Our monthly digital magazine includes articles on gardening, food and other content not found in the print edition. It’s a great way to keep up-to-date on Almanacky topics throughout the year.
| | An Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership will deliver exciting rewards for you—and at a special introductory rate, right now, for all new Charter Members. | When you join today, you’ll ensure that you are planting the seeds of success for your garden when you tap into the time-honored wisdom of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Enjoy all these benefits as an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Member:
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How can you not consider becoming an Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club Charter Member? | | What You’ll Get With an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership | There’s so much gardening knowledge to gain as a Charter Member of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club:
In the convenient, hangable, softcover edition of the 2019 Almanac, you’ll find a bumper crop of gardening tips. Many gardeners consider the Almanac their most valuable tool, so this year, for all of you trying to grow food, we’ve got foolproof advice that promises a harvest the first year and every one thereafter. Perhaps you grow flowers—or want to: In the 2019 Almanac, you’ll learn which flowers are edible, when to pick them, and how to use them (e.g., pick apple blossoms in late spring and sprinkle them onto a Waldorf salad and use impatiens all summer long as a garnish).
But that’s not all. Here’s a taste of other tips you’ll find in the 2019 Almanac:
- The Faces of Farming: ambitious folks from across the country tell about how they got started, hurdles they faced, and the rewards of working the land
- Best days for planting, pruning, weeding, grafting, and controlling pests, plus the easiest-ever soil test (all you need is a pair of men’s clean, white, 100% cotton underwear and a small shovel)
- Daily weather forecasts for all regions of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii
- Fresh new ways to savor the asparagus, beet, corn, and cucumber harvests, with “The ABCs of Pickling!”
- Easy, delicious, Almanac prize-winning recipes using oranges
Each month, you’ll get new articles and original content with our digital magazine, The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! It’s a treasure trove of Almanac information that you won’t find in the printed edition, including audio and video content. EXTRA! leads you to some interactive fun when you’re ready for a change of pace |
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As you count the days until you can get out and garden again, enjoy the rich illustrations in our Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Calendar. This compact calendar is the perfect size to fit on the wall in your kitchen, den, or potting shed. Each month features rich, full-color illustrations along with tips, history, or background information on the artwork.
Here are just a few of the tips you can find in our 2019 Gardening Calendar: - Start an indoor herb garden (no waiting for the last frost!).
- Choose the perfect fast-growing ground cover.
- Enhance your garden’s growth by inviting beneficial fauna.
- Pick the perfect time to plant peas—based on fact and folklore.
- Build your own bog—in a garden container!
- Find out why ladybugs are such great garden friends.
- Grow your own flower garden designed to create custom fabric dyes.
- Praying mantises: helpers or hindrances in the garden?
- As you do your garden planning, save some space for flying saucer squash.
You’ll love the advice, folklore, and gardening secrets in our 2019 Gardening Wall Calendar!
As you count the days until you can expect the last frost, peruse the pages of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide for tips on how to grow better, naturally!
From the practical to the ornamental, plan your prolific garden with some of these tips:
- Plant edibles indoors and out, no matter how small your space is.
- Create a fun foodscape (or: How to get beyond the basic lawn).
- Get your garden off to a good start with tips on successful seedlings.
- The plants that keep on giving: Pick perennials to serve up year after year.
- Serve up your harvest in style with recipes that will let you savor the flavor of homegrown food.
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Janice Stillman
Editor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac
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