Seed to Fork

Growing delicious food

Today we ’re visiting Meg Cowden ’s garden .

We endure in the western Twin Cities of Minnesota and relish a short and vivid grow time of year . We relish pushing the season to its grievous bodily harm and utilize rowing covers to eke out the most goodness possible of our 150 or so frost - free day . Besides vegetable horticulture , growing native plant life is another love , and we have some aboriginal prairie plant we brought with us from a previous place . We ’ve also overseeded half an acre to aboriginal prairie here , which is just establishing .

The garden in snow . The horticulture time of year in Minnesota may be short , but it certainly is beautiful .

A crop of brightly colored Brussels sprouts . Like many greens , Brussels stock have the best flavor when spring up in nerveless conditions and so are a outstanding pick for northerly gardeners .

This garden feed humankind and monarch butterflies . This future monarch is have a snack on some milkweed .

new harvested garlic !

A smattering of brilliant orange tomatoes just reap . There is nothing like a sweet , cherry tomato plant just picked and still warm from the summertime sun !

Glass gem corn . This incredibly ornamental corn is a diverseness of Zea mays everta , so it can be popped and delight during a moving-picture show in accession to just savour the brilliant colors of the kernels .

An grownup milkweed butterfly butterfly stroke end by for some ambrosia from the zinnias in the desktop .

A view of the garden from above . It is a beautiful space , and it is wonderful to see the variety of textures and color from the different crops . And , key to successful gardening for many of us , a nice improbable fence keeps deer and other thirsty animals out .

A vine - draped bower with views of happy vegetables beyond .

The garden in full summer growth , with razz , asparagus , Zea mays , and many other crops in view .

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