If you want reliable fruit from a cold climate garden with almost no effort, growing currants and gooseberries is one of the best decisions you can make. These are the berries that simply work – year after year, without fuss, in conditions that defeat most other fruit crops. Growing currants and gooseberries in cold climates…
Growing blueberries in cold climates is absolutely possible – but it is one of those crops where skipping the preparation step guarantees failure. The plants will survive. They just will not produce fruit worth talking about. The single non-negotiable requirement for growing blueberries is acidic soil with a pH of 4.5–5.5. Everything else – variety…
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Everyone told me that growing tomatoes in cold climates would not workin my northern garden. They were wrong – but only because I changedmy approach. Growing tomatoes in cold climates is absolutely possible in Zone 3–5 and H6–H8 gardens. The key is not to fight your climate but to work with it: choosing the right…