Built-In Hillside Planter Boxes, Dehydrate Apples, Best Type of Wood for Raised Beds, and Winter Squash Bread

Start growing good food at home with daily advice, tips, and tricks from gardeners like you. [FGN Daily]( December 21, 2021 Enjoy this newsletter? Please forward it to your friends Garden Design [How to Create Built-In Hillside Planter Boxes for Sloped Yards]( When designing a vegetable garden, it’s a good idea to figure out which part of your yard receives the longest and most consistent light. Might as well get in a bit of sunbathing and call it “research,” right? For some, as luck would have it, the most sun-filled section of your yard will be the least conducive to growing. Sometimes your sunny spot is on [concrete or pavement](. Other times, you may find the sunniest area in your yard to be on a hillside or sloped land. You can work with that by building hillside planter boxes! [Read More...](  [Apples]( [Audacious Apples Guide Available Now!]( Apples are the perfect portable snack. They’re delicious, nutritious, and packed with antioxidants! You can grow soaring, full-sized trees in your yard; grow smaller trees in raised beds or containers; or even train an apple tree to grow along a fence or a wall! No matter how small your garden space, there’s an apple variety for you! Learn about it all in this [Audacious Apples]( Collection right now! [Read More...](  Food Preservation [How to Dehydrate Apples in the Oven]( Fresh apples are divine but what if you can’t eat them fast enough? At room temperature, fresh apples will last about a week. Then they start to get bruised and mealy. Stored in the fridge, apples will keep for about a month or two depending on the variety. Sure, you can learn how to [freeze apples]( and [can apples](. But if you learn how to dehydrate apples, you can keep them for up to 6-12 months. And while you could shell out some moolah to buy an electric food dehydrator, you can easily learn how to dehydrate apples in the oven. Plus, you won’t have to find a storage spot for yet another kitchen gadget. [Read More...](  [Magazine Issue]( [Recipe Lion Magazine January / February 2022 Issue Available Now!]( Looking for something warm and wonderful? In this issue, you’ll discover soup recipes that are pure “Comfort in a Bowl” and five “Crusty Dippable Breads” to go with them. Plus “7 Healthy Soups for the New Year”, and “20 Hearty Stews and Chili”. [Read More...](  Garden Tools [What's the Best Type of Wood for Raised Beds?]( The only thing better than enjoying the produce from your garden is planning your garden. I could spend hours looking through seed catalogs, checking out the latest garden equipment, drawing maps of what my garden might look like, and, naturally, thinking about the best type of wood for raised beds. After all, you want something that isn’t going to rot, but you also don’t want anything treated with chemicals. [Read More...]( [Winter Squash]( [Winning Winter Squash Gardening Guide Available Now!]( Squash have been a popular crop for 10,000 years! With our [Winning Winter Squash Gardening Guide]( you’ll have everything you need to know about growing and enjoying squash of many varieties — from planting to eating! [Read More...](  Premium Recipe of the Day [Winter Squash Bread]( Use the winter squash of your choice to bake up this light and sweet Winter Squash Bread. Serve it for breakfast or dress it up with ice cream for dessert! [Read More...](  [FREEBIES: Get Them Now!]( [How to Master Spice and Herb Gardening at Home]( [ GET MY FREEBIEÂ]( [Planting Chart]( [ GET MY FREEBIEÂ]( [Best Way to Grow Tomatoes]( [ GET MY FREEBIEÂ](    You are receiving this email as part of your free subscription to email updates from Food Gardening Network. If you no longer wish to receive this update as part of your free subscription, please click the unsubscribe link below. [MANAGE PREFERENCES]( [Unsubscribe]( Help us be sure your email update isn't filtered as spam. Adding our return address [Support@foodgardening.mequoda.com](mailto:support@foodgardening.mequoda.com) to your address book may 'whitelist' us with your filter, helping future email updates get to your inbox. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Pinterest]( [Send us a message]( Did a friend send this to you? [Sign up to receive your own FREE advice about growing food at home.]( Copyright © 2021 Mequoda Systems, LLC Food Gardening Network 101 Federal Street, Suite 1900, Boston, MA 01970 Email: Support@foodgardening.mequoda.com [Our Privacy Policy]( Having trouble viewing this email? [View online](.