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Spring is closer than it feels here in the Sacramento Valley, so I’m in the midst of planning my spring/summer 2025 garden. Here I discuss my heat and drought tolerant veggie lineup for the upcoming season.

My winter garden isn’t doing so well, but I got a decent potato harvest out of it.

I think I’ve found one of the best times of year to plant potatoes in the Sacramento Valley. Had a surprisingly productive Thanksgiving Day harvest after only 75 days of growth.

Plantable starter pots are a bit of a necessary evil. Plastic starter pots are usually way better, but when starting plants that are prone to transplant shock, they might be the best option. Here, I go over some available plantable pots and discuss which ones I think are best.

My garden is a pretty hands off condition as it slowly grows through the winter. Still, I’m keeping myself busy with ongoing potato trials and few other interesting projects.

Here’s my first attempt at a cooking video, making a baked, stuffed winter squash from my garden. General Ingredients: A winter squash or pumpkin Italian Sausage Parmesan cheese Chopped Onions Chopped Mushrooms Bread Crumbs Butter Olive oil White wine Suggested Seasonings: Salt Sugar or brown sugar Garlic Powder Onion Powder Fennel Seed Nutmeg Cinnamon Fresh sage Fresh Thyme

Just a short vid on some of the fall and winter gardening challenges I encounter and how I typically deal with them.

After a tremendously long hot summer that lingered into October, I was finally able to complete my fall/winter garden. I took an odd/experimental approach to how I set up some of my beds.

Summer is over but the triple digit temps in the Sacramento Valley are not. I run the numbers for my spring/summer garden and see what my totals were.

Realizing my sweet potatoes had been in the ground for almost six months, I decided to go ahead and harvest. After such a long time, there had to be some good ones under the soil, right?

Broadleaf herbicide contamination of straw, hay, and manure has been a problem in recent years. Here is an informal test of some straw I recently purchased reduce my chances of contaminating my garden.

Fall Gardening Strategies for Hot Climates

5 Veggies I’ll Never Grow Again (and three I will)

A Second Wind for the Summer Garden

Watch this before buying a Weston tomato strainer

On “Gardening Burnout”

My Front Yard Garden is Toast!

How to Grow Tomatoes from Seed to Sauce

Always Crunchy Refrigerator Dill Pickle Recipe

Squash Woes, Plenty of Tomatoes: June Garden Journal

Plantable Seed Starting Pots: Pros and Cons

How to Protect Your Garden During a Heatwave

The Garden Takes off and the Harvest Trickles in: May Progress Update

6 Garden Mistakes I Wish I Hadn’t Made

A Low Cost Front Yard Garden Build

How to Nip a Whitefly Infestation in the Bud

Winter Squash and Whitefly: The Summer Garden is planted

Starting Sweet Potato, Winter Squash, and Yardlong Beans

Growing Potatoes Over the Winter (Zone 9B)