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Meet the Urban Gardeners
Urban gardeners use salvaged materials and creativity to build a mini-farm in their backyard. Learn from their experience to grow your own urban garden.
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garden ideas inspiration
Meet the Urban Gardeners
Urban gardeners use salvaged materials and creativity to build a mini-farm in their backyard. Learn from their experience to grow your own urban garden.
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How to Start a Community Garden
If gardening with friends and neighbors sounds like fun, you are a candidate for community gardening. All across the land neighborhoods and communities are digging in. Not since the Victory Gardens of WWII have community gardens been so popular.
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Why Victory Gardens Still Matter
I am a life-long gardener. Growing up in rural Oregon, I was taught by my parents to grow, can, and cook food – all good old skills that seem to be so rare these days. But they weren’t rare during World War II, when growing food became a matter of national security.
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How to Use Manure as Fertilizer
If you’ve been gardening for any length of time, you’ve probably know of folks who use composted manure as fertilizer. After all, it’s high in nutrients and can work wonders in the garden — plus, it’s free! It can be difficult, though, to know not only which kinds of manure to use, but also when it’s safe to put in your garden. Use this handy guide to the most common types of animal manure.
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Decorating with Pumpkins
Come October, most of us plunk a pumpkin on either side of the front door and call it good. But with a bit of planning and some creative ingenuity, your entryway and garden can scare up some autumnal style that is worthy of a second (and even a third) look.
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Crop Rotation Made Easy
Learn why crop rotation will help improve your garden success--plus a simple way to do it.
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6 Great Books for New Gardeners
New gardeners have one thing in common: They have lots of questions. If you don’t have a neighbor or friend who gardens, you can find the answers you need by stocking your home library with a few key books.
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Rooftop Gardening
It can be difficult to grow a garden in an urban environment. Garden writer Ellen Spector Platt shares her tips for rooftop gardening.
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How to Make Bath Salts with Lavender and Rosemary
Learn how to make bath salts using aromatic herbs from your garden. This recipe includes rosemary and lavender for soothing fragrance at bath time.
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Creative Vertical Gardening Ideas
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Strawberries Introduce Kids to Natural Sweets from the Garden
Get kids to love healthy, natural sweets such as strawberries and cherry tomatoes by introducing them to garden-fresh produce, which is the sweetest kind.
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5 Excellent Heirloom Vegetable Books
Discover what these five exceptional heirloom vegetable books have to say about the history, use, and importance of these valuable plants.
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How to Organize a Community Garden
Running the garden day-to-day requires that someone be in charge of the garden, volunteers, and activities. Forming a garden club helps fulfill duties that get the garden off the ground: establishing rules, reviewing applications, and assigning individual plots....
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Growing Onions
Learn expert tips for growing onions. They are a tasty, easy addition to your home vegetable garden. Growing onions is efficient and rewarding.
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How to Lay Out a Vegetable Garden
Is there anything more satisfying and delicious than growing your own food? From the first tender tips of asparagus in spring to the tasty tang of summer’s homegrown tomatoes, a garden filled with beautiful, productive plants provides a terrific sense of accomplishment—and fabulous, fresh meals.
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Spacing in the Garden
There is no one size fits all for vegetable spacing. Read on to see which spacing works best for what you have to work with, garden or container.
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How to Start a Vegetable Garden
When it comes to starting a vegetable garden, 3 things are absolutely crucial for success: lots of sun, good soil, and plenty of water.
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Good Soil Means Good Vegetables
Vegetables need good soil. Roots will grow deeply and soak up nutrients for healthy, productive plants. Here is how to prepare your garden soil.
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Seasoned Advice for First Time Gardeners
We all have to start somewhere, and not everyone lives next to an expert like Lucinda Mays. Read some of her tips before you start gardening.
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How Much Water Do Vegetables Need?
One of our frequently asked questions is, "How much water do vegetables need?" Learn how to water your vegetables so they don't get too little or too much.
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How to Grow and Plant Rhubarb
Rhubarb's tart, colorful stems offer a tangy flavor that is typically tamed with sugar (or strawberries). Get expert tips for growing rhubarb at home.
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Select a Good Site
When beginning a garden, choose your location carefully. A good location will include sunlight, drainage, and access to water. Read on for how to pick your spot.
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How Much Do I Plant?
"How much do I plant?" That's a common question. The perfect-sized garden yields all the tomatoes and other vegetables that you need and some extra to share with friends. Please use this guide of how much you can expect to harvest from a 10 foot row to help you determine exactly how much of your favorites to plant.
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Which Veggies for Which Season?
Learn which vegetables to plant in summer, spring, and fall. Seasonal vegetable planting is the first step to a beautiful and bountiful garden.
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