Gardening Vegetables & More

Gardening for beginners to advanced. Vegetables, flowers, herbs and fruit. Transform your backyard with these great DIY organic gardening tips and tutorials, including: Seed starting and transplants, growing vegetables, herbs and fruit; permaculture; composting; vertical gardening; pest control; companion planting; bee and butterfly gardens; season extension and more.
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Save Money and Eliminate Pests with Regenerative Gardening
We'll explain what regenerative gardening is and why you want to use it to create your best home garden ever. Some of the techniques such as composting, mulching, crop rotation, and cover crops will be familiar to organic growers. Other tools, like creating local mineral extractions based on soil testing and working with structured water, may be new.
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How to Make a Hotbed
How to Make a Hotbed - Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening |
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9 Reasons To Try Lasagna Gardening & How To Get Started
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What to Grow in the Shade?
All of us have imperfect vegetable gardens with spots that receive less sun and other spots that get more. So how do we deal with those shady spots? What vegetables grow in shade? There are vegetables that grow in partial shade. This complete list of vegetables that grow in shade will help you know exactly what to grow. Find more info about shade-tolerant veggies, backyard vegetable gardening, and planting vegetables.
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Purple Vegetables – Includes Photos & Cooking Tips
Purple vegetables are fun because of their eye catching color, plus they add extra nutrition to meals. Eating the rainbow is more fun when you grow it yourself. Before you go all in with "purple" in your garden, there are a few things you should know. Those bright pigments can do strange things when you start cooking. I'm sharing some of our favorite varieties of purple veggies, plus cooking tips, and health benefits.
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How to Build a DIY Potato Tower - Cheap and Easy!
Save space in the garden and make your harvest easier with this DIY potato tower. We share how to maximize your harvest and avoid the mistake that will kill your potato plants. Great for small gardens and keeps your potatoes weed free.
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How to Start a Garden from Scratch
This beginner's guide to backyard gardening will help you take control of your food supply and reduce your reliance on store-bought produce. We'll help you select the best location, prep your soil, select your crops, and raise a bountiful harvest.
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How to Grow Carrots - From Seed to Harvest
Get the best tips for growing carrots in the garden, raised beds, or containers, including help for germination, companion plants, best carrot varieties for containers, colored carrots, and more.
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Free Printable Seed Starting Calendar for Any Zone
Start your garden seeds at the right time indoor or outdoor with this free printable seed starting chart you can customize to your growing zone. Perfect for vegetables, herbs, and melons. Includes advice for hardening off transplants and direct sowing for spring and fall harvests.
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How to Grow Tomatoes from Seed
Growing tips for starting tomato plants from seed. When to start your seeds, which containers to use, how much light do they need, transplanting, common mistakes and troubleshooting tips so you get your best harvest ever!
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How Long do Seeds Last? (Includes Printable Seed Viability Charts)
Are you wondering if your leftover garden seeds are still good? We share typical shelf life for vegetable, herb, and flower seeds, plus seed storage tips, and a simple germination test.
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What are Heirloom Seeds? (And Why it Matters)
Pros and Cons of heirloom seeds. What's the difference between heirloom and open pollinated and hybrids? When should you choose heirloom vegetables?
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Best Heirloom Seeds - Recommended by Home Gardeners
We're sharing the best places to buy heirloom seeds for home gardens. I'm sharing my favorite seed companies, plus reader recommendations and some unique seed sources to investigate. These heirloom seed companies will help you bring old fashioned flavors, scents, and colors back to your garden for beautiful and delicious crops.