How To Grow

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How to Grow and Care for Plugs

How do you give your Bonnie Plants® plugs the best start? No worries—you’ve got this. With a little preparation and proper handling, your young plants will settle in quickly and begin growing strong.

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How to Grow Mexican Gherkins

Mexican gherkins look like tiny watermelons but taste like lime-infused cucumbers. Get expert tips for growing Mexican gherkins in your home vegetable garden.

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How to Grow Ground Cherries

A fruit of many names, it seems the only thing everyone can agree on is the fact this tangy but sweet berry is a delight to eat.

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Growing Carrots

If you enjoy crisp, crunchy carrots, you’ll adore the fresh flavor of homegrown. Not only do they taste especially delicious when you grow carrots in your own garden, but they’re also extra sweet when kissed by frost.

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Growing and Planting Beets

If you love sweet, earthy beets, it’s time to grow your own. A dual-purpose vegetable, beets taste delicious whether you’re eating the greens in a salad or roasting the roots for a main dish.

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How to Grow Chamomile

If you enjoy ending your day with a soothing cup of chamomile tea to help you relax, you’ll love the convenience of homegrown chamomile. Easy to grow, harvest, and use, chamomile looks lovely planted among veggies in the garden, tucked into raised beds filled with herbs, or added to a pretty container on your patio or balcony.

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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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Growing Fennel

Fennel is a beautiful herb to have in the garden. Feathery and fern-like, it adds both color and texture to your plantings. It also boasts a strong, licorice-like flavor. Fennel is a tender perennial, which means the plant may make it through the winter in warm areas, but is sensitive to cold. Most gardeners grow fennel as an annual.

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Growing Lemongrass

Discover how to grow lemongrass. Growing lemongrass in your own garden means having a fresh, delicious ingredient for a variety of Asian dishes.

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Growing Edamame

Growing edamame, a traditional Japanese food, is easy. Plants tolerate dry conditions, and few pests like them. You eat the beans that grow inside the pods.

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Growing Lemon Verbena

The key to growing lemon verbena is good drainage and warm weather. Try growing lemon verbena in a container you can carry indoors.

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Growing Radicchio

Radicchio is a favorite of Old World palates. Try growing radicchio in your cool-season vegetable garden. Growing radicchio is much like growing cabbage.

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Growing Mustard Greens

Mustard greens are very nutritious and easy to grow. Get expert tips for growing mustard greens in spring or fall gardens.

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Growing Asparagus

Unlike most vegetables, asparagus plants are perennial, which means the same plants grow in your garden year after year. The spears that we enjoy as a vegetable are the new shoots that emerge in spring. The most important part of growing asparagus is to realize that it will take a couple of seasons before you taste the first bite of homegrown asparagus.

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Growing Thyme

Growing the classic and delicious thyme herb is a great way to add flavor to many dishes, or create a beautiful ground cover in your yard.

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Growing Mexican Tarragon

Start growing Mexican tarragon in your home garden and you'll have an excellent substitute for French tarragon that does much better in the summer heat.

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Growing Sweet Marjoram

Try growing sweet marjoram in your garden during warm months, then bring it inside to keep harvesting the tasty leaves throughout the winter.

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Growing Stevia

Try growing stevia to add natural, calorie-free sweetness to foods and drinks. Grow plants in your garden or in containers. Leaves can be used dry or fresh.

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Growing Rosemary

The Mediterranean herb, rosemary, requires attention to soil and water conditions. In warmest areas, it grows into a large evergreen shrub.

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Growing Pineapple Sage

Growing pineapple sage will attract hummingbirds and butterflies, plus make your yard look wonderful. Pineapple sage makes wonderful cut flowers, too.

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Growing Pet Grass

Growing pet grass is a great way to provide your cat or dog with healthy greenery, whether they spend their time indoors or outdoors. Works great in pots.

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Growing Parsley

Try growing parsley in your garden, as it not only makes a lovely garnish, but also delicately seasons food and looks wonderful as edible landscaping.

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Growing Oregano

Try growing oregano for a tasty addition to many Italian and Greek dishes, or simply for a lush groundcover. Learn to plant, grow, and harvest oregano.

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Growing Citronella (Mosquito Plant)

Try growing mosquito plant for its good looks and lemony fragrance. When rubbed against the skin, leaves can help repel mosquitoes.