How to Grow Strawberries in Your Garden
Strawberries are one of my favorite fruits to grow in my garden. Depending on what types of strawberries you plant, you can enjoy fruit almost all season.
Gardening Tips For Beginners
Gardening basics for beginning gardeners. If you’re intimidated by the process of how to start a garden, here is your path to success. Learn composting basics, how to build soil with organic matter, essential garden tasks, and tips on growing vegetables, fruit, annuals and perennials.
How to Grow Broccoli: When to Plant, Where to Plant and When to Harvest
How to grow broccoli in your garden, including site selection, where to plant, when to plant, preparing soil, fertilization, watering, and when to harvest.
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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.
Tips For Starting Your First Organic Vegetable Garden
For beginners, starting your first vegetable garden can be intimidating. But fear not – follow these simple tips and you’ll be off to a great start.
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Growing Organic Blueberries in Your Garden
Get to know the soil requirements for growing blueberries in your garden, pruning techniques, how to plant them, and how to protect blueberries from birds.
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”.
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How to Grow Turnips: From Seed to Harvest
Turnips are a good choice for the novice gardener as they are typically easy to care for and grow well with other root vegetables, such as carrots.
What is Square Foot Gardening?
Square Foot Gardening divides the growing area of a garden bed into a grid in which crops are planted. The method was popularized by author Mel Bartholemew in 1981.
What’s Really in that Bag of Garden Mulch?
Buying garden mulch these days practically requires a warning sticker on the bag and a robust suspicion of spurious marketing claims.
Which Flowers Bloom in Fall?
There are plenty of flowers that bloom in fall to light up your garden just as the days are getting shorter and the rest of your flowers have gone to seed.