Our Better Nature: Get More Growing Season from Your Vegetable Garden

A thriving vegetable garden (Shutterstock) The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! Like many gardeners, I've been dismayed now and the...

August 16, 2023
3:12 AM

A thriving vegetable garden (Shutterstock) The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! Like many gardeners, I've been dismayed now and then by late frosts, damaging storms, and other unwelcome weather events. The thought of tweaking the climate a bit to help my garden is a tempting dream. But the violent storms that swept the country throughout the spring, coupled with this summer's record-breaking heat and New England's catastrophic floods , are stark reminders no one can control Mother Nature.

Paul Hetzler