Winter feels like a reset button for the garden, a clean slate where everything troublesome gets wiped out by cold. Yet raised beds often keep secrets through frost, snow, and ice, and some of them wriggle. While the surface looks quiet and frozen solid, life below can be surprisingly busy. Soil, wood, mulch, and compost…
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5 Garden Bags Covers That Outperform Tarps in Freezing Temps
Winter sneaks in like a magician—one moment your garden is thriving, the next it’s quietly shivering under a layer of frost. Anyone who’s ever tried tossing a basic tarp over their plants knows the truth: tarps are loud, clumsy, awkward, and wildly overrated when temperatures plummet. They flap in the wind, trap condensation, and somehow…

