6 Tips for Growing Gardens In Urban Landscapes
Growing a garden in an urban landscape is possible — you just need to know what planting zone you’re in. and which plants are best suited for your area.
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.
Vegetable Garden Fertilizer 101: How Much Should You Add?
How much fertilizer you should add to your vegetable garden depends on a variety of factors and it should never be added unless needed.
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How To Be A Better Gardener
As a conscientious gardener, you need to conserve water, learn about companion plants, and invite pollinators into your garden.
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.
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How to Grow and Harvest Chamomile
Chamomile may be the easiest herb on earth to grow. Most herbs are pretty simple – plant, prune, contain. Chamomile, with its delicate, apple-like aroma, self-seeds year after year and also happens to be a great host for beneficial insects.
How to Grow Peonies
Peonies are one of the most beautiful flowers to bloom in spring and brighten any garden in pink, purple, red, white, yellow or a combination of colors.
How to Grow Lettuce, Spinach, Kale, and Other Leafy Green Vegetables
One of the first crops I harvest from my vegetable garden every year are young leafy green vegetables. Spinach, kale, head lettuce, leaf lettuces, arugula, bok choy and domesticated dandelion are among my favorites, and together they make a great spring salad or stir fry.
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Garden Fertilizers vs. Soil Amendments – What’s the Difference?
Garden fertilizers are meant to feed your plants and soil amendments are meant to improve your soil. But sometimes they overlap.
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Fall Gardening: Plant Seeds and Bulbs, Harvest Potatoes, Divide Perennials
Flower beds and vegetable beds need tuning up in the fall. Getting them ready for winter gives you a head start in spring
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Fall Is The Perfect Season For Planting And Transplanting
Every gardener knows that spring-flowering bulbs must be planted in the fall. But how about planting trees, shrubs, and other flowers? Or transplanting a struggling plant to a better location on your property?
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