Rooted
The free newsletter for real-world gardeners. Help on Tuesday, snark on Thursday, a story on Saturday.
Grown fresh, three mornings a week
Tuesday
One real problem, solved by your USDA zone and sourced to university extension pages, not a seed packet.
Issue one: your real first frost date, and the marigold-and-potato myth your garden club still swears by.
Thursday
The fifteen-second garden hack, the subscription trap, the marketing line with an asterisk. Plus the meme of the week.
Coffee grounds do not acidify your soil. Five extension offices agree.
Saturday
A real gardener, a real harvest, and where the extra went. Plus a weekend project.
The botanic garden that runs a farm for the food bank.
Not a mockup. This is the cold open and the quick hits from issue one, word for word.
Read the latest issueSeptember flips a switch. The tomatoes keep coming, but somewhere in the back of your head a countdown just started: how many weeks until frost. Today we get specific about that number instead of guessing, retire a companion planting myth your garden club still swears by, and hand this week's zucchini glut to people who actually need it. Three minutes, then back to the dirt.
Three minutes, then back to the dirt.
One email field. No paid tier, no trial, no app to install.
Every Help piece covers zones 3 through 11, so the advice fits your frost date, not somebody else's.
When the zucchini wins, we point you to a pantry that wants it and tell you what they can actually take.
A garden that feeds your table, and the neighbors when it overflows.
Another season of generic advice, plants that die from fussing, and a zucchini bag on somebody's porch.
Saturday story
Drive southwest of Denver Botanic Gardens to Chatfield Farms and you find a working farm that grows food for a food bank, a public-housing farm stand, and a pay-what-you-can restaurant.
Tuesday help
Tuesday help
Garden Hero exists so that food grown in a backyard ends up on a table, including tables that are not yours. We write about growing in a way that leaves the soil richer than you found it, and when the harvest outruns your kitchen, we point you to the pantry near you and tell you what it can take.
The pantry finder is on its way. Until it lives here, the Saturday issue carries a pantry to call each week.
This fall Rooted spends six weeks with public gardens, starting with Denver Botanic Gardens and its Chatfield Farms CSA. If your local garden would give Rooted readers 20% off a class or the gift shop, tell us who to call.
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