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Stop Fertilizing These Plants Before Winter — You May Be Encouraging the Wrong Growth

It seems logical that giving plants one final meal before winter would help them survive the cold, but the opposite can happen when fertilizer encourages growth at exactly the wrong time. As days shorten and temperatures fall, perennial and woody plants begin hardening off, a process that prepares living tissue…

Frugal Gardening · 6h ago

A $5 Bag of Garlic Could Become a Garden Full of It — Here’s When to Plant

A bag of garlic looks like groceries, but biologically, you’re also looking at a surprising amount of potential planting material. Each bulb separates into individual cloves, and each healthy clove can potentially grow into an entirely new bulb, making planting garlic in fall one of the more satisfying ways to…

Frugal Gardening · 7h ago

You’re Still Watering Like It’s July — Your Fall Garden Doesn’t Need It

That automatic watering schedule that kept your tomatoes alive through July may be doing too much work by late September. Cooler days, longer nights, weaker sunlight, and seasonal rain can all change how quickly moisture disappears from garden soil, yet it’s easy to keep watering simply because that’s what you’ve…

Frugal Gardening · Sep 26

Can You Use Old Window Screens to Dry Garden Seeds?

An old window screen can become a surprisingly useful seed-drying rack. Instead of spreading seeds across a plate, paper towel, or cookie sheet where moisture can linger underneath, a clean screen lets air move around the seeds from multiple directions. That simple bit of airflow makes the humble window screen…

Frugal Gardening · Aug 21

Polaris Donates $1M To Expand 4-H Off-Road Education at a Time When It’s So Important

Polaris is donating $1 million to expand 4-H off-road education in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Extension in the hopes of teaching youth ATV and UTV drivers critical safety skills

RideApart · Jun 19, 2025

'That's still the dream': Buying up Minnesota farmland

The first step to buying farmland in Minnesota is probably, well, already owning farmland.

Tribune News Service · Aug 25, 2022