Keeping Faith in Beauty to Come

My name is Kathy Schreurs, and I garden in Sheldon, Iowa. (You’ve heard from me before: Iowa Spring, Part 2.) I’ve been enjoying—and envying—the recent and beautiful GPOD gardens located on the Northeast and Northwest coasts. Our northwest Iowa climate, so dissimilar, waffles between Zones 4 and 5, and in recent years late spring snow and ice storms and early fall frosts mixed with torrential rains and flooding in early summer have challenged farmers and gardeners alike.

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