A white garden mailbox with an American robin on top, spilling seed packets, a garden printable, and a paper garland, beside a picket fence gate and a vegetable garden

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What you get in Get the Dirt

Get the Dirt is a short email every Saturday morning about what to do in the vegetable garden right now: what to start, what to transplant, and what to harvest before it bolts.

It also brings the small things that keep a garden going through the season.

Subscribers also get everything new on this site first:

  • New free printables: planners, calendars, worksheets, and coloring pages, the week they're finished.
  • New kids' crafts: garlands, lacing cards, party crowns, and banners for parents, teachers, and grandparents.
  • New garden tools, like the personalized planting calendar and "What Can I Still Plant?", before they're linked anywhere else.
  • Reader questions, and what worked or didn't in my own garden that week.

I've gardened in Oregon's Willamette Valley nearly all my life, most of it alongside family, and we've made most of the mistakes there are to make. The newsletter is where I pass along what fixed them.

Sign up with the form at the top of this page, and your first issue arrives on Saturday morning.



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