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Master Gardener: For busy green thumbs, raised beds require less maintenance, extend growing season

There are many reasons for building raised beds in the garden. Raised beds give the garden a framework, they reduce soil compaction and they extend the growing season.

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Georgia Middlebrook's gardens in Washington can be visited Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m., one of six sites featured on a Garden Conservancy Open Day in Litchfield County. The others are open from 10 to 4 p.m. Each costs $5. See www.opendays.org.

Garfield Farm Museum sets Heirloom Garden Show

Garfield Farm Museum's 21st annual Heirloom Garden Show will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29. For more than 20 years, Garfield Farm Museum has offered the Heirloom Garden show to the public to increase awareness in the loss of genetic diversity in the very plants that provide us food, fiber, medicine and enjoyment.

Ypsilanti Heritage Festival: Garden Tour to feature area green thumbs

WHAT TO KNOW WHAT: The annual Ypsilanti Garden Walk

Best temp job in town: Pop-up gardens are appearing across London thanks to one pioneering enthusiast

Trundling along to buy a lunchtime sandwich the other day, admiring the floral bedding in my local park in Ealing, I spotted a little sign: "Pop-up Kitchen Garden". Now, we've heard of pop-up shops, restaurants and art galleries, but a pop-up vegetable garden? Exploring a little further, I found that a set of kitchen garden beds, neatly edged in wood, had materialised out of nowhere. It was a ...