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This is where Benjamin Greenfield writes down what happens on his family farm in Oregon: year-round vegetable gardening in no-dig raised beds, with home-made compost and companion planting. Each article takes one job at a time, from working out where the sun falls to curing onions for the winter, and says what worked, what failed and why. The method is the one in his book, The Year-Round Vegetable Garden for Beginners; the blog is where year-round vegetable gardening meets the weather.

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Composting pumpkins: chopped jack-o'-lantern pieces and seeds layered with fallen oak leaves in a wooden compost bin.

Composting Pumpkins: What to Do With Jack-o’-Lanterns After Halloween

Winterizing garden tools outside the shed: spade, hoe, fork and secateurs laid out with a file, a whetstone and an oily rag.

Season Extension

Winterizing Garden Tools: Cleaning, Sharpening, and Storing

Slug and snail control: a large slug on a lettuce leaf eaten through with smooth-edged holes, its slime trail on wet soil.

Pests & Diseases

Slug and Snail Control: Organic Defenses for Wet Autumn Beds

Fall garden cleanup: a wheelbarrow of cut stems on the path between a bed strawed and a bed left standing with seed heads.

Season Extension

Fall Garden Cleanup: What to Cut Back and What to Leave Standing

Three Sisters Garden in late summer: tasseling corn with bean vines on the stalks and squash leaves over the mounds.

Garden Planning

Three Sisters Garden: Planting Corn, Beans and Squash Together

Leaf mold compost in a wire bin, in three layers: whole brown leaves on top, skeletal ones below, dark crumb at the bottom.

Leaf Mold Compost: Turning Fall Leaves into Free Soil Conditioner

Ripening green tomatoes laid out in a single layer in a wooden crate on newspaper, a few blushing orange and one fully red.

Harvest & Storage

Ripening Green Tomatoes: Saving the End-of-Season Harvest Indoors

Growing Brussels sprouts in a garden bed: a tall stalk packed with tight green sprouts between the leaf scars.

Growing Brussels Sprouts: Sweeter After the First Frost

First frost date: white frost on kale leaves and on the soil of a raised bed at sunrise, with the crop still standing.

Season Extension

First Frost Date: How to Find Yours and Protect Your Crops

Curing onions spread one layer deep on a slatted rack in a shed doorway, tops still attached and shadows falling right.

Harvest & Storage

Curing Onions: How to Dry Bulbs That Store All Winter

Seedlings growing in a tray with water collected beneath the cells.

Seeds & Seedlings

Bottom Watering Seedlings: The Best Way to Prevent Overwatering and Fungus Gnats

Radicchio heads with deep red leaves and white veins growing in a garden bed.

Growing Radicchio: Cultivating Bitter Italian Chicory in Fall Gardens

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