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Herbs Well-suited to a Strawberry Jar

Herbs well suited for astrawberry jar

Strawberry jars feature pockets big enough to hold individual herb plants. Plant these jars in stages using these recommended herbs and you'll enjoy a perfectly sized herb garden for cooking use.

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How Many Pots Can You Fill with a Bag of Soil?

Knowing how much potting soil to use when filling your pots can be tricky. This simple chart helps you learn how many pots you can fill with each bag of garden soil.

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How Much Water Do Vegetables Need?

Watering vegetables

Either by rain or watering, your vegetable or herb garden needs about an inch of water per week. In hot climates, your plants need even more. Here's how to figure out how much water your herb plants and vegetable plants require based on average temperatures in your area.

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How to Create a Compost Pile

Compost Bin and watering can

Any plant material is prime for composting. Whether you choose a compost bin, compost pile, or other composting method, composting is a great way to recycle kitchen and garden waste. Plus, nutrient-rich compost is great for your garden.

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How to Plant Bonnie Biodegradable Pots

Bonnie Peatpot.

Bonnie peat pots are better for your plants and the environment. Follow these simple steps when planting with Bonnie peat pots and you won't have to worry about transplant shock.

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How We Built Our Big 8 x 24 Raised Bed

Close up of raised bed timbers.

The mother of all raised beds, this 8 x 24-foot bed is 18-inches deep and has the potential to yield hundreds of pounds of food. This is a project for folks with building experience and who want a sturdy bed that will last a long time.

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If You Can’t Beat It, Raise It: The Basics of Raised Beds

Raised Beds in a garden.

Overcome your garden soil challenges by opting to plant raised beds for growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Raised beds allow you to increase your depth of good garden soil and allow for better drainage, plus you'll have more room than in traditional rows.

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Keep the Cat to a Nip

If your cat is going crazy for your catnip plant, you can easily prevent it from causing damage. Catnip plants are relatively fragile, so use this easy method to protect the plant from being rubbed to death by your eager kitty.

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Keep Your Compost Pile Moist

Compost Bins made out of cratesYou may be surprised to learn that your compost pile needs just as much water as your live plants. There are several ways to ensure your compost is getting the adequate amount of water needed to do its job.

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Learn Tomato Terms: Indeterminate, Determinate, VFN & Others

VHN what?

Decode tomato plants by learning the difference between determinate and indeterminate, as well as symbols for disease resistance. If you're growing tomatoes, use this guide to help you select the variety.

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How to Grow Bonnie's Herbs and Vegetables

Learn how to grow any vegetable or herb. Illustrated instructions walk you through planting, care, harvest,  storage, and troubleshooting for each Bonnie vegetable and herb.


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