Dear Garden Grower,
As more and more people discover a love for gardening and growing their own food, it’s worth mentioning that you don’t need to feel left out if you don’t have a lot of space. There are some inventive ways to use your vertical space and garden up! Vining veggies are ideal for this. Peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, squash, and Malibar summer spinach all enjoy climbing.
That’s right! As long as you have a good support system in place, vining vegetables aren’t just a nice alternative, they actually produce more per square foot than bush-type varieties of vegetables. It’s also easier to keep an eye out for pests, pick them when they’re ripe, and dare we say they look marvelous. You can even start early in the season with peas.
Snap peas, snow peas, and shell peas are cool-season crops that will give you a six-foot-tall wall of green by early summer. Once you harvest the peas, you can use the same trellis for a crop of late-season cucumbers. How’s that for productivity!
And while we’re on the subject of cucumbers, did you know that trellising will increase cucumber yield by 50 percent? Plus, you can grow varieties like the extra-long “Tasty Green” that you won’t usually find in stores.
Let’s not forget everyone’s favorite garden plant, either. Some varieties of tomatoes are perfect for vertical gardening. It might take a little extra care on your part, but you won’t mind that one bit when you have a 6-foot trellis loaded with “Better Boy” or “Triple Crop” tomatoes!
You can climb into the details of these trellis-loving plants in your 2021 edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide. Find out how to train your plants to grow up, how to make the most of a small space, and what kind of support your different vegetables need.
It’s all yours with your membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club. And you don’t just get this year’s edition, you get access to all of them. That’s over 1,100 pages of gardening tips, plant lore, recipes, design ideas and inspiration, tricks, shortcuts, and so much more! | |  | | How To Go Vertical | Vines and trellises aren’t the only way to grow up. You can wake up a boring wall with a cacophony of color. Living walls are growing in popularity, and though you can find well-curated living walls in museums and galleries, they’re also on balconies, patios, porches and in small backyards everywhere. As a nice bonus, it’s an easy do-it-yourself project because there are a million ways to create your own wall of herbs, vegetables, and flowers.
If you have a sunny wall (or fence) you have a potential candidate for a living wall. Beware, however, that plants, pots, and wet potting mix can get pretty heavy, so be sure your wall is secure and stable. If you aren’t sure, build your vertical garden from the ground up so that its weight is predominantly on the ground.
Cascades of strawberries, stacks of salad greens, hanging herbs, walls of radishes, kale, basil, and bright yellow and orange marigolds don’t require a lot of room and they’re pretty much guaranteed to make you happy.
The 2021 edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide has a complete DIY guide to make your own living wall with just a trellis panel and a few supplies along with several more ideas for growing a vertical garden. It’s so easy and so beautiful!
Get the details and start planning your vertical garden with inspiration in the latest edition of the Garden Guide! |  | | Blooms That Boom With Color | While there is a lot to enjoy in the latest Garden Guide, we’d be remiss if we didn’t share with you the bounty of the Garden Guide library. The nice thing about gardening is that tips and advice remain pretty steady over the years. That’s one reason we love this article from waaaaay back in 2014.
Bright, colorful flowers can be a focal point of your landscape all season long when you plant these regional favorites. Bring indigo blues, golden yellows, crimson reds, soft pinks, rich creams, and deep purples to your yard no matter what part of the country you live in. It’s just a matter of knowing what to plant and spending a little time caring for your garden (all of which our experts share in this article).
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- Learn what to plant so you can attract native pollinators to your garden
- Find out how to create the easiest hydroponic garden ever
- Discover 15 fruit trees ideal for small spaces
- And so much more
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| | Claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership—save 43% today! | | | | | | | | Tap into the deep well of resources at The Old Farmer’s Almanac for a bountiful harvest of gardening tips and tools—with a Charter Membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club! | Announcing The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club! This new and exciting club is designed especially for you—with just the inspiration and information you need for all your gardening projects!
We’ve put together essential Old Farmer’s Almanac resources to celebrate your love of gardening and give you tons of tips for making your next gardening project as lush and lovely as it can be. And it all starts, of course, with The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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Since 1792, The Old Farmer’s Almanac has been a traditional resource for dedicated farmers, avid and casual gardeners, folks who like to get a long view on upcoming weather trends, and people who love to collect little snippets of country wit and wisdom that they can share with family and friends.
We’re not just the oldest published almanac, but the oldest continuously published periodical in North America— and we’ve been around longer than any newspaper or magazine, too. | | | Get your Charter Membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club today—with resources to inspire you in the garden. From time-honored country gardening tips to modern garden gadgets, come share in the bountiful harvest! | With your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership, you get everything you need to keep your garden at its greenest:
- 2021 Gardening Wall Calendar: Our perennial best-seller for over 40 years! Rich illustrations accompany useful gardening tips on everything from planting to enjoying your garden.
- The 2021 special softcover, hangable edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, loaded with the tips, trivia, and insights that make it a family favorite.
- Gardening for Everyone— Brand NEW from Old Farmer’s Almanac and only available to Club Members, this beautiful print edition covers the best of Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guides. Grow food and herbs you love, surround yourself with spectacular flowers, and get tips on the latest gardening tech!
- Instant Unlimited Access to our new Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide Online Library—you’ll find seven years of Garden Guides packed with no-nonsense tips, tricks, and shortcuts to make your garden a jewel in the neighborhood or out in the country.
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- The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! Our monthly digital magazine includes articles on gardening, food and other content not found in the print edition. It’s a great way to keep up-to-date on Almanacky topics throughout the year.
- Bonus: Not only will you get a new Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! each month—you get free access to every issue of EXTRA! in our digital library. That’s more than 40 issues of great gardening tips, delicious recipes, and more!
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| | Claim your Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership— save 43% today! | | | | | An Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership will deliver exciting rewards for you—and at a special introductory rate, right now, for all new Charter Members. | When you join today, you’ll ensure that you are planting the seeds of success for your garden when you tap into the time-honored wisdom of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Enjoy all these benefits as an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Member:
- Your best garden ever—Almanac gardening advice, planting dates, timesaving tips, and detailed guidance from experts will get you growing like never before.
- You’ll know in advance about every important astronomical event in 2021—and how the phase of the Moon can influence the success of your garden.
- You’ll save time and money when you follow all of the practical advice and tips that we deliver to you about everything from gardening to food preparation and cooking.
- You’ll be the first to know about top tips, tricks, and shortcuts for taking your garden from good to great.
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- You’ll discover new approaches to planting—for color, for purpose, for stress relief.
- Whether you’re a beginning gardener or a skilled green thumb, you’ll find do-it-yourself projects to fit your schedule—and your garden.
How can you not consider becoming an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Member? | | What You’ll Get With an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership | There’s so much gardening knowledge to gain as a Charter Member of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club:
In the convenient, hangable, softcover edition of the 2021 Almanac, you’ll find a bumper crop of gardening tips. Many gardeners consider the Almanac their most valuable tool, so this year, for all of you trying to grow food, we’ve got foolproof advice that promises a harvest the first year and every one thereafter. Perhaps you grow flowers—or want to: In the 2021 Almanac, you’ll learn all about growing flowers, when to pick them, and how to use them (e.g., last year, we told members to pick apple blossoms in late spring and sprinkle them onto a Waldorf salad and use impatiens all summer long as a garnish).
But that’s not all. Here’s a taste of other tips you’ll find in the 2021 Almanac: - Best days for planting, pruning, weeding, grafting, and controlling pests
- Daily weather forecasts for all regions of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii
- Fresh new ways to savor vegetables from your garden
- Easy, delicious, Almanac prize-winning recipes (and an opportunity to share your own!)
Each month, you’ll get new articles and original content with our digital magazine, The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA! It’s a treasure trove of Almanac information that you won’t find in the printed edition, including audio and video content. EXTRA! leads you to some interactive fun when you’re ready for a change of pace. | | | | Celebrate your Love of Gardening with the Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening club! | |
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| | Claim your Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership— save 43% today! | | | | It’s never too early to plan next season’s garden, so enjoy the rich illustrations in our Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Calendar. This compact calendar is the perfect size to fit on the wall in your kitchen, den, or potting shed. Each month features rich, full-color illustrations along with tips, history, or background information on the artwork.
Here are just a few of the types of tips you can find in our 2021 Gardening Calendar: - Reinvigorate your houseplants by removing the top 1/4 inch of soil and top-dressing with fresh potting soil.
- Use an old salt shaker for sowing tiny seeds. Mix the seeds with sand for better spreading.
- Plants with a strong citrus fragrance will help to keep pesky bugs at bay. Try planting lemon-scented geraniums, lemon thyme, or lemon balm.
- Lettuce shaded naturally or by shade cloth will encourage the growth of a tender, sweet crop all summer.
- To attract dragonflies, create a water feature. Choose a spot in partial to full sun and plant a few native plants along the edges for wind protection.
- Remove the lower leaves of brussels sprouts to expose the buds along the stem. Harvest from the bottom up.
- Fill bird feeders to attract chickadees, nuthatches, and juncos—they will not only brighten the landscape but also clean up insect larvae and eggs on trees and shrubs.
You’ll love the advice, folklore, and gardening secrets in our 2021 Gardening Wall Calendar!
As you count the days until your next planting or your next harvest, peruse the pages of Gardening for Everyone for tips on how to grow better, naturally! Gardening for Everyone is available exclusively to Old Farmer’s Almanac Club members.
From the practical to the ornamental, plan your prolific garden and learn how to:
- Plant edibles indoors and out, no matter how small your space is.
- Create a serene and leafy oasis—and why you should.
- Make a living herb wreath—a kitchen garden in the round.
- Grow blooms that beautify your surroundings and make breathtaking bouquets.
- Serve up your harvest in style with recipes that will let you savor the flavor of homegrown food.
And all of this is available to you—right now—when you claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership. | | | Celebrate your Love of Gardening with the Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening club! | |
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Sincerely,
Janice Stillman
Editor
The Old Farmer’s Almanac
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