This Week's Bounty: Easy Maple Roasted Potatoes, Cedar-Apple Rust, Annual Thanksgiving Cranberry Feud, and More!

Our weekly roundup of advice and tips for growing good food at home. [Food Gardening Network Weekly]( November 26, 2023  [Freebie Text-Ad]( [Plant the Perfect—and Productive—Food Garden Every Year!]( [GET THIS FREEBIE NOW!](  Featured Weekly Video [Easy Maple Roasted Potatoes and Squash with Bacon]( [Video]( Do you want a beautifully simple recipe that allows you to gather your white potatoes, sweet potatoes and squashes, and transform them into a side dish you can eat all week long? Trust me, even the pickiest eaters will scoff these Maple Roasted Potatoes and Squash with Bacon. [Read More...](  [Fall Calendar]( [FREE Printable 2023 Fall Garden Planning Calendar Kit!]( Download this kit when you join the Food Gardening Network Gold Club Membership: - Get checklists for garden tasks in September, October, November, and December—every month of Fall! - Prioritize your own garden with personal notes. - 10 fresh-from-the-garden Fall recipes! [Read More ...](  Composting [How to Keep an Odor Free Compost Bin in Your Home]( [Article 1]( Composting used to scare me. I should say, compost bins used to scare me. I had heard all the great things about composting: that it was a super sustainable and a great cost-effective way of boosting nutrients into your soil. But, I was afraid of the stink of it all. Is it possible to have an odor-free compost bin? [Read More...](  [Kale]( [Kale: The Queen of Greens Gardening Guide Available Now!]( Learn how to get started growing your own kale plants in our Queen of Greens Kale Gardening Guide! There is so much to do with delicious home-grown kale—smoothies, salad, stew, even kale chips! [Read More ...](  Vegetable Gardening [7 Ideas for Mulching a Vegetable Garden That Actually Work]( [Article 2]( The best piece of advice I got over ten years ago, in regards to weeds in my [home garden]( came from a friend of my mom who always has the most pristine garden. Each row between his plants were always clean, and never seemed to have sprouts or bugs. I assumed he must be hand-weeding, but when I asked he told me “nope, I just go out every day with a hoe and turn the soil—haven’t had to bend over to pick a weed or mulch a day in my life.” Genius, I thought! Unfortunately, most of us don’t have the time to follow his best practice, and there are other benefits to mulching a vegetable garden beyond a clean-looking garden and being weed-free. [Read More...](  [Lavender]( [Lovely Lavender Gardening Guide Available Now!]( Lavender have been a popular crop for 10,000 years! With our Lovely Lavender Gardening Guide you’ll have everything you need to know about growing and enjoying lavender of many varieties — from planting to eating! [Read More ...](  Pests & Diseases [How to Handle Cedar-Apple Rust and Save Your Harvest]( [Article 3]( It’s a beautiful, early-fall day. You got ambitious a couple of years ago, and you now have three gorgeous apple trees around your garden. As you get closer, though, you notice something that had escaped you before: the tell-tale signs of cedar-apple rust! [Read More...](  [Apples]( [Audacious Apples Gardening 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 Gardening Guide right now! [Read More ...](  Vegetable Gardening [Our Annual Thanksgiving Cranberry Feud]( [Article 4]( Ah, the Thanksgiving when I discovered Ocean Spray cranberry jelly – it was a revelation that shook the very foundations of our family dinner table traditions. You see, Thanksgiving in our household was a serious affair, and cranberries held a place of honor right alongside the turkey. [Read More...](  [Dill]( [Delightful Dill Gardening Guide Available Now!]( Dill is one of the easiest, most gardener-friendly plants to grow and has dozens of culinary uses—every part of the plant is edible! With this gardening guide, you get all the details that go into growing and harvesting this aromatic plant. Get it all in this Delightful Dill Gardening Guide right now! [Read More ...](  Seeds & Seedlings [What's the Charles Dowding Multi-Sowing Seeds Method?]( [Article 5]( Tell me, fellow gardener… if you buy a square of onion sprouts at the gardening supply shack, do you plant each little tiny bulb one by one, or do you bunch them? When you plant carrots, do you space your seeds apart, or do you just sprinkle and see what happens? Most gardeners I talk to thin them out, one by one, but master gardener Charles Dowding would disagree, so I wanted to talk about his multi-sowing seeds method, because last year I tried out both! [Read More...](  [Magazine]( [November 2023 Issue Available Now!]( Get in-depth articles and videos all dedicated to everything potatoes, including “November Gardening Chores”,“Spud-tacular Crafts”, “How to Store Potatoes, Carrots & More for Winter”. You’ll also learn to make “Easy Maple-Roasted Potatoes and Squash with Bacon”. Plus, enjoy spotlights on how to grow and cook with potatoes, garlic, and cranberries [Read More ...](  Member Posts: New This Week - [Start preserving for National Canning Day]( - [Is it a shovel or is it a spade?]( - [A Season to Give Thanks]( - [Embracing Fall Flavors: Maple Pecan Sweet Potato Pie Recipe]( Member Favorites - [The Easiest Vegetables to Grow in New England]( - [How to Grow Herbs in Mason Jars]( - [How to Make Banana Peel Tea for Plants]( - [How to Stop Vegetable Diseases from Invading Your Garden]( - [Pressure Canning Safety: 10 Rules to Live By]( - [3 Ways to Grow Edible Flowers Indoors]( - [How to Keep Deer From Eating Plants Naturally]( - [10 Beautiful Flowering Vegetables (and Herbs)]( - [8 French Cooking Herbs to Grow to Make Herbs de Provence]( Premium Recipes of the Week - [Garlic Balsamic Vinaigrette]( - [Savory Sweet Potato Burger]( - [Cranberry Brussels Sprouts]( - [Roasted Garlic]( - [Oven Fries: Regular or Sweet Potato]( [GP]( [FREE for You Now: Printable Butterfly Garden Planting Chart!]( Download this FREEBIE now and get: - Beautiful full-color printable chart. - Which plants attract butterflies? - Best flowers for your garden. - Fun facts about each of the 24 plants. 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