Little House in the Northwoods

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Our Garden Planning Book

We learned some gardening in 2020; we actually did quite well for beginners. After a hiatus, we are back at it for 2025 season! I plan to use this space as a place to eventually organize all my chicken scratch gardening notes. Those notes are absolutely atrocious!

Stay tuned for more content here! We live in a zone 4 location. I have a guide with a very rough idea of how to get started with a garden that has checkpoint sheets that can be printed out to help:

2025 Garden Planner - Zone 4b

Here is a Facebook group where you can join up for reminders and garden tips: U.P. of Michigan Gardening for Beginners and Mentors

Our 2025 Garden Planner Our 2020 Harvest.
2025 Garden Planner - Zone 4b
One of our veggie harvests.
Meat Entrees Breads and Rolls
Fresh Garden Tomatoes
Mr. Bumblebee.
Our 2020 Garden Our kitty, Turk!
Our 2020 Garden
Turk next to "his" flowers.

“ Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves. ”

~Tasneern Harneed

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