This Year, Grow Your Best Food Garden Ever!

Use these resources to boost your gardening skills! [Food Gardening Network Preview]( March 8, 2024  [Food Gardeners Rejoice! ‘Editor’s Choices’ for Top Magazine Issues Will Help Ensure Your Best Food Garden Ever!]( Create your most productive food garden ever—satisfy your family and friends with your food bounty … even make your neighbors jealous! [Announcing: Food Gardening Magazine ‘Editor’s Choices’ for Top Issues!]( [FGN Magazines] Dear Gardener, You’re now privy to our top magazine issues for ensuring that you will be the best food gardener you can be! You probably have impressed your family and friends with your food gardening skills … and maybe even your cooking skills. And with your efficient and productive food garden, you must be driving envy into the hearts of all your neighbors. Well, as with most things in life, you have to keep up to date so you don’t fall behind … to approach your food garden with a “continuous improvement” philosophy, so that you can keep it going. Now comes my very own choices for the top Food Gardening Magazine issues since we started publishing in the summer of 2020—we have more than 3 years and more than 40 issues in our Magazine Library now, and I’ve taken time to choose the 9 best issues for you. As founding editor, I’ve been at it since the beginning, so I know what it has taken to produce all these issues—here are my favorites (which are certain to help boost your skills!) - July 2020 Issue: This issue is very special, because it’s our premier issue—our very first issue! When creating this magazine issue, our team focused on 3 popular foods—tomatoes, basil, and blueberries—and we spent countless hours perfecting every aspect of this issue … and staying true to our mission: Food Gardening Network is the only all-in-one-place online resource for planning, planting, tending, harvesting, and cooking your bounty. In this issue, get everything you need to know about growing and enjoying tomatoes, basil, and blueberries. And like a first-born child, our first magazine issue got lots of time and attention when being developed—it’s a gem! - October 2021 Issue: You can call this our “preservation” issue! And that’s why it’s important to me. I can’t help letting my New-England sensibilities about conserving and not wasting food shine through! In this issue, you learn all about the best vegetables for pickling and preserving. Plus, 3 great ways you can pickle—and, no, it doesn’t have to be difficult or take forever. Try the Quick Countertop Pickles, and you’ll be enjoying the crisp taste in less than 30 minutes! - June 2022 Issue: Learning how to plan and build raised beds for my garden makes this issue a top one! Before getting all these details, I always thought raised-bed gardening wasn’t for me because of the difficulty in building the structures. Nope! Read this issue, and you’ll see what I mean. Plus, featuring eggplant, lettuce, and watermelon—3 food staples for me every summer—makes this issue near and dear to my heart! [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership Special Offer—Just $10 for an Entire Year! UPGRADE YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY! Become a Charter Gold Member today and get the Food Gardening Magazine and Library, Gardening Guides, and Recipes! [Gold Membership] Check out all that this new food gardening club has to offer you today! YES, SIGN ME UP NOW FOR JUST $10!]( - July 2022 Issue: Okay, I admit that I only knew a little bit about using grow bags in the garden—until we tackled this issue! If you want to learn a new way of growing fruits and vegetables … or if you already use grow bags and want to ensure you’re following the best techniques … then this issue is for you! And a big bonus for me in this issue: How to Make Your Own Homemade Bug Spray! - September 2022 Issue: For this issue, we cover the “Three Sisters”—corn, beans, and squash. And while they generally are regarded as fall harvest plants, I enjoy these foods all year long—that’s why this issue is so impactful for me. Get growing tips and learn a bit about the history of these “Three Sisters.” Plus, the article on how to harvest fresh herbs in fall to use all winter long is valuable for me, so that I can enjoy my harvest even after the snow sets in! - March 2023 Issue: Officially dubbed “The Dirt Issue,” this magazine issue is critical for any gardener—because all your garden-tending efforts could be in vain if you don’t have good soil to start with! Learn about DIY soil testing methods (complete with video); what to compost and what not to compost; how to compost; and specifics about composting in winter. And our 3 featured foods in this issue are beets, broccoli, and brussels sprouts—all favorites of mine! [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership Special Offer—Just $10 for an Entire Year! UPGRADE YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY! Become a Charter Gold Member today and get the Food Gardening Magazine and Library, Gardening Guides, and Recipes! [Gold Membership] Check out all that this new food gardening club has to offer you today! YES, SIGN ME UP NOW FOR JUST $10!]( - May 2023 Issue: Gardens need the right amount of water to survive, and that’s what makes this issue a top one. The “Watering A-Z: Everything You Need to Know About Watering Your Garden” feature article gives ideas for finding the best watering cans; how to ensure drained soil; being efficient with your watering techniques; how often you should water your garden; watering with hoses vs. an irrigation system; overwatering and underwatering; and more! Plus, a practical video guides you about best garden watering techniques. - October 2023 Issue: This is our most recent issue we’ve published, so it’s top-of-mind for me—and we are committed to continuous improvement, so every new issue just gets better! This is “The Pumpkin Issue” and covers how to grow and enjoy pumpkins—plus, and absolutely delicious and unique recipe for Pumpkin Grilled Cheese with Caramelized Onions and Bacon. Talk about the ultimate comfort food! - Special Planning Issue: If you’re a gardener, then you’re a planner. Or you should be to ensure the most successful garden. Bingo! Our Special Planning Issue is a gem because it covers many of the primary challenges food gardeners face when thinking ahead: how to enclose a vegetable garden; creating garden beds that water themselves (who doesn’t want that?!); best vegetable garden irrigation methods; how to plan for bountiful raised beds; keeping weeds at bay in your garden; how to create a custom DIY drip irrigation system for raised beds … for less than $100!; how to get seeds from you veggies to save for next year; and more! Please take a look at these 9 “Editor’s Choices” top magazine issues—to refresh yourself on a gardening skill, learn something new, or even to get some new recipes to try. [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership Special Offer—Just $10 for an Entire Year! UPGRADE YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY! Become a Charter Gold Member today and get the Food Gardening Magazine and Library, Gardening Guides, and Recipes! [Gold Membership] Check out all that this new food gardening club has to offer you today! YES, SIGN ME UP NOW FOR JUST $10!]( But this is just a fraction of what you get with your [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership]( You see Gold Membership is packed with benefits you can’t get anywhere else! As Executive Editor of Food Gardening Network, I’m happy to have you as a free Bronze Member, but that only gives you a small taste of what Food Gardening Network is all about. When you upgrade now to [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership]( you unlock the key to an entire library of material, absolutely everything we publish about growing good food at home—all access and all the time for you, including: - [All-Access Membership in Food Gardening Network Gold Club]( only online resource for planning, planting, growing, tending, harvesting, and enjoying foods from your very own garden. - Subscription to Food Gardening Magazine—you get monthly issues filled with articles about how to start, maintain, and harvest food from your own garden at home. Plus, instant and unlimited access to the entire searchable digital library of back issues! - Subscription to RecipeLion Magazine—you get quarterly issues filled with hundreds of delicious and easy-to-make recipes at your fingertips, plus tips and tricks for developing new cooking skills. Plus, instant and unlimited access to the entire searchable digital library of back issues! - Gardening Guides—you get instant access to more than 57 comprehensive guidebooks that are plant-specific—from tomatoes, basil, and garlic to potatoes, pumpkins, beans, corn, squash, and more!—about how to grow, harvest, and enjoy the bounty of your home garden. Learn everything about specific foods you can grow, get recipes to enjoy with friends and family, and enjoy tips on health benefits and home remedies that use your harvest! - Cookbooks—you get full and instant access to 9 digital cookbooks, filled with more than 1,300 recipes! You’ll never run out of ways to enjoy the fruits of your labor with these easy-to-make recipes! From single dishes to a whole meal—we’ve got you covered! - Videos & Video Library—you get instant access to more than 80 videos in our library with gardening tips, tricks, and tactics; do-it-yourself projects for gardening and crafting items; and cooking videos to show you exactly how to make specific dishes. Plus, access to new monthly videos over the coming year! - NEW! Planning Calendars —every season of the year, you get printable planning calendars to help keep your garden on track. Calendars include tasks, checklists, notes, and recipes that use fresh seasonal ingredients from your garden. - NEW SERVICE! Recipe of the Week—every Sunday, you get a recipe with quick, easy, and delicious ways to cook food—delivered weekly to your email inbox. - Gold Member Insider—you get this exclusive email service, delivered regularly to your inbox, to guide you through the Food Gardening Network Library. Saves you time finding articles, magazine issues, gardening guides, videos, kits, and recipes that you won't want to miss! And all of this is available to you—right now—when you upgrade to a [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership.]( I want to see your name on my daily list of new Gold Members—you deserve to join like-minded gardeners and get full access to our entire library of material for optimizing your food garden. Please become a [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Member]( today—while this special offer lasts! Sincerely, [Bill Dugan Signature] Bill Dugan Executive Editor Food Gardening Network P.S. Your success with food gardening depends on you acting now—please claim your [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership]( today and get the only all-in-one-place resource for planning, planting, growing, tending, harvesting, and enjoying foods from your very own garden. P.P.S. 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