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Backyard Vegetable Gardening All Year Round

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Backyard Vegetable Gardening All Year Round People are starting their own backyard gardens in increasing numbers around the country as a low cost way to provide healthy, organic vegetables for their families, as a way to connect to nature, and some do it to provide educational opportunities for their children. On this edition of Charlotte Talks, we'll talk about vegetable gardening in your backyard throughout the year-from preparing the bed to harvesting and storing your successfully grown vegetables. Guest David Blackley - Owner, Renfrow's Hardware and backyard gardener who teaches people how to do their own backyard gardens Don Boekelheide - Test Gardener for the Carolinas, Organic Gardening Magazine and food gardening instructor, CPCC Add and read comments If you love food, check out our Food Blog for composting and gardening tips to food news and culture. It's all at WFAEats. What should you plant and what should you eat every holiday of the year - Good Friday, Tax Day? Check out this handy Vegetable Planting Guide. Backyard gardener David Blackley eats something from his garden every night for dinner. He shares some of his harvest with us...

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