Built-In Hillside Planter Boxes, Dehydrate Apples, Homemade Bug Spray, and Baked Brown Butter Radishes

Start growing good food at home with daily advice, tips, and tricks from gardeners like you. [FGN Daily]( July 20, 2022 Enjoy this newsletter? Please forward it to your friends Garden Design [How to Create Built-In Hillside Planter Boxes for Sloped Yards]( [Built-In Hillside Planter Boxes]( 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 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 ...](  Food Preservation [How to Dehydrate Apples in the Oven]( [Dehydrate Apples]( 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]( [July 2022 Issue Available Now!]( Videos include “How to Start Gardening with Grow Bags for Vegetables and Fruits”, "Veggies to Plant in July" and "Homemade Bug Spray for Vegetable Plants"! In the foodie department, you’ll learn “How to Throw a Backyard Pizza Party from Your Garden” and get in-depth articles about Radishes, Blueberries, and Bell Peppers. [Read More ...](  Featured Weekly Video [Homemade Bug Spray for Vegetable Plants]( [Homemade Bug Spray]( A good old-fashioned spray with the hose is my favorite way to rid my veggie garden of leaf-eating pests, especially the Japanese beetles who love to munch on my basil. But you know as well as I do that waterboarding insects only goes so far, because whatever bugs are chowing down, will eventually come back. [Read More...]( [Radish]( [Radiant Radishes Gardening Guide Available Now!]( Radishes are easy to grow and come in a variety of colors that span the entire rainbow. And did you know that how spicy a radish is, depends on when you harvest it? In this collection we’ll explain how to choose a radish variety and how to grow them in your garden, harvest them, and then enjoy them at your table. [Read More ...](  Premium Recipe of the Day [Classic Stuffed Bell Peppers]( [Radish]( As the butter toasts and caramelizes in this recipe, so do the halved radishes that soak up every delicious drop in these Baked Brown Butter Radishes. [Read More...]( [GPA Logo]( [HALF-PRICE Deal for Food Gardening members - Plus, FREE Bonus When You Act Today!]( [Cabot Prime Plus]( Get your HALF-PRICE subscription to GreenPrints, the only gardening publication to bring you joy, wisdom, humor, and heart-warming stories and tales! And your FREE bonus, The Weeder’s Reader now! [Claim Your HALF-PRICE Subscription Now!](  [FREEBIES: Get Them Now!]( [Best Way to Grow Tomatoes]( [ GET MY FREEBIEÂ]( [Recipes from Your Garden]( [ GET MY FREEBIEÂ]( [How to Grow a Vegetable Garden]( [ 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 © 2022 Mequoda Systems, LLC Food Gardening Network 99 Derby Street, Suite 200 Hingham, MA 02043 Email: Support@foodgardening.mequoda.com [Our Privacy Policy]( Having trouble viewing this email? [View online](.