Vegetables

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Get an Antioxidant Boost from Your Garden!

Everyone wants to stay healthy, so growing a vegetable garden filled with antioxidant-rich Bonnie Plants® makes good sense. So, go ahead and add these 10 top antioxidant-packed fruits and veggies to your garden plan.

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Full Sun Vegetable Plant Garden Ideas

There’s nothing like harvesting fresh veggies straight from your backyard or balcony and creating a delicious dinner from ingredients you grew yourself. But many veggies need what the experts call “full sun” to grow their best. Do you know which of your favorites need it?

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5 Gorgeous Gardening Coffee Table Books

It’s entertaining season, and my husband I and like to play our part by hosting a few dinner parties. All those parties, of course, mean lots of guests, and I wouldn’t be a good hostess if I didn’t have some eye-catching coffee table books laying around to be perused, would I?

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Tomato Tales from Beginner Gardeners

At Bonnie Plants, we love to help folks learn to grow their own food. So, we thought it would be fun to track some beginner gardeners so others could benefit from their experiences. We asked four young Alabamians to let us help them grow their first tomatoes. All of them are in their 20s, just starting out, and busy with school, creating homes, and building careers....

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How to Get a Kid to Eat Lettuce

While it’s been a cool, slow growing season so far, our buttercrunch lettuce, planted back in late March, looked ready for picking this week.

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The Perfect Planting Pair: Tomatoes & Basil

Well folks, it’s that time of year again: spring! Sure, some of you may have been gardening for most of your lives and have it figured out. But for the vast majority of us, every season is an adventure in learning about growing food.

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My Favorite Gardening Books for Kids

A few mornings ago, we woke up to see an unwelcome surprise outside the window. “Is that snow?” Thalia asked me. “Why is it snowing if it’s spring?” Oh, to see a child’s blossoming ability for logic confounded by the irrationalities of the natural world!

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Garden Lessons From My Parents

Friday is my 4-year-old daughter Thalia’s favorite time of the week, hands-down.

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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.