Tomato Dirt Newsletter
Volume 13, Number 23

Dear Tomato Dirt reader,

Welcome back to Tomato Dirt! A couple times a month, we’ll send you this newsletter packed with tips about growing tomatoes and using them.

Get 40% Off or More When You Celebrate Gardener’s Supply’s 40th Birthday

Our good friends at Gardener’s Supply are having a birthday .

They’re marking 40 years of providing you and me with the best in gardening products.

So they're cleaning out their Gardening Outlet, Kitchen & Home Outlet, Indoor/Outdoor Living Outlet, and even Clothing & Footwear Outlet.

You can get 40% off or more on garden supplies, kitchen and home, pots and planters, tools, gifts, trellises, raised beds … and more.

It’s a great time to restock your supplies or replace your tools. Browse here .

The clearance outlet stock changes from day to day as items are added. Check now and check back later, too. Browse the deals!

You might even find some gifts to purchase for the gardeners on your shopping list.

NEW! Check for tomato growing tips each day on our Facebook page

Here’s the dirt: Tomato Dirt’s long-standing Facebook page was recently hacked. For your safety and privacy, we closed it. But never fear! We’ve started a new page with good security.

You’re invited to like the page and get plenty of tomato growing tips. And please share the new page with other gardeners you know!

Hop on over to Facebook and click “Like” right now, while you’re thinking about it.

FEATURE: How to Winterize Your Garden – It’s More Than Just Clean Up

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When you know how to winterize your garden, you do much more than clean up a late season eyesore.

You invest in next year’s crop.

Think of winterizing as taking the first steps in getting started with vegetable gardening in the spring.

And you needn’t take your winterizing steps all at once.

Undertake them one at a time over the weeks after you harvest your crop.

You can even extend these tasks into the early winter months.

Here are 10 simple tips for winterizing your garden so you give yourself a running start next season…

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Tomato Growing Tip: Why Plant a Winter Cover Crop?

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Get more tips for growing tomatoes on our Tomato Growing Tips Pinterest board.

Start a Compost Bin (or Add to Yours) This Fall

And you don’t need to pay top dollar for this amazing soil enricher. You can create your own compost right in your backyard using simple kitchen and garden refuse.

The best way to do that is by using a compost bin.

Building and maintaining a compost pile is the surest, easiest way to become a better gardener. And it’s great for the environment.

Not only will you be producing the best possible food for your garden, but by watching leaves, eggshells, orange rinds, and grass clippings become transformed into rich compost filled with earthworms and other soil creatures, you'll help re-use resources that you might otherwise throw away. Check out dozens of different kinds of compost bin models offered to Tomato Dirt readers from our friends at Gardener’s Supply – and choose the one that works best for you.

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