The hardest part of starting gardening is getting over the fear that your first attempt might be a total disaster. I won’t lie, it might be.
But if you start small and follow a few basic gardening rules, you should have good results in your first season. And as you learn, you’ll get better at gardening quickly.
Below we’ve included links to our posts that discuss the basics of gardening to get you ahead of the game and out of the gate fast. Use these resources and in no time at all you’ll be planting, growing, and harvesting delicious vegetables and beautiful flowers.
Gardening Basics:
See these post for gardening tips and techniques:
How to Grow Basil
Learn how to grow basil in your home garden with this comprehensive guide. From starting basil seeds to proper care and harvesting.
Easy Ways to Make a Trellis For Your Vegetable Garden
Garden trellises save space, make vegetables and fruit easier to harvest, decrease the chances of disease, and offer better aesthetics in the flower garden.
Crop Rotation Basics For Your Vegetable Garden
Crop rotation is key to successful home gardening to avoid pests and disease. Includes a sample plan for crop rotation and a chart of plant families.
How To Read Seed Catalogs
Seed catalogs are full of abbreviations and symbols. Dr Leonard Perry explains what it all means.
A 3-Minute Composting Primer
Composting is an essential part of organic gardening. It’s the ultimate recycling of all those grass clippings, food waste, and yard waste. It also adds organic matter to your soil…
10 Tomato Growing Tips For a Huge Crop
I share ten tips for growing tomatoes organically that serve me well each season. They’ll help you grow big tomatoes and lots of them.
How To Protect Your Back, Neck, and Knees When Gardening
Tips on how gardeners can protect their bodies and backs from injury when stretching and bending for long periods early in the season in their garden.
How to Read a Plant Tag
An explanation of what all of those terms on plant tags and seed packets really mean.
How to Grow Spring Flowers in Containers
Enjoy spring flowers up close every year by planting them in containers. It’s perfect for gardeners with mobility problems or limited space in urban areas.
Do You Know Your First Frost and Last Frost Dates?
Learn when your first frost date and last frost date is. Knowing these dates helps you avoid killing or damaging seedlings and new plantings.
What’s the Difference Between Annual and Perennial Plants?
Annual or perennial refers to how long your plant’s lifecycle is. Yet, some plants can be grown as perennials in warm areas and only as annuals in cold areas.
What do the NPK Numbers Mean on a Bag of Fertilizer?
Bags of garden fertilizer have three numbers on the label in bold: NPK. This is referred to as the fertilizer analysis or “grade”.