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Growing Green Peas

Snap-style green peas are a delicious, versatile spring or fall crop. Find out expert tips for growing green peas in your home vegetable garden.

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Growing Okra

Okra, especially popular in the South, grows best in hot weather. Get expert tips for growing the unique okra vegetable in your home garden.

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How to Grow and Plant Turnip Greens

Turnip greens are a flavorful, nutritious addition to spring and fall gardens. Learn tips for growing turnip greens in your home vegetable garden.

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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 Tarragon

Growing Mexican tarragon is a great idea if you love the flavor of French tarragon but live in a warmer region of the country.

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How to Grow Tomatoes in Pots

Growing tomatoes in pots levels the home garden playing field, bringing a crop of homegrown ‘maters within reach for almost anyone, regardless of real estate.

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Growing Leeks

Get expert tips on growing leeks. These onion cousins are cold-hardy, easy to grow, a good combination with other foods and delicious.

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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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Organic and Sustainable Gardening 101

Organic gardening isn't just about avoiding synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. It also encompasses growing in harmony with nature. Learn how to grow organically and sustainably here.

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Planting Herbs in a Strawberry Jar

For a handy way to grow lots of your favorite kitchen herbs, consider planting herbs in a strawberry jar. Just follow these basic tips.

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Growing Strawberries

The best strawberries you’ll ever taste will come from a garden. Get expert tips on growing delicious strawberries at home.

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9 Essential Practices for Organic Gardeners

New to organic gardening? Here are 9 good, sustainable practices that every organic gardener should know about. Try them in your own garden.

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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 Compost Tea

Composting helps create great soil, which is key to beautiful, healthy plants and huge harvests. The most effective way to deliver the benefits of compost to your plants is to whip up some compost tea.

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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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How to Make a Raised Bed from Bales of Straw

A straw bale raised bed is an inexpensive method for creating a raised bed. Perfect for new gardeners, frugal gardeners, or gardeners needing more space.

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Easy 4 x 4 Summer Garden

Use this summer garden plan for a 4 x 4 bed and harvest fresh homegrown produce all summer. The garden plan includes your favorite summer vegetables and herbs.

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How to Choose Your Garden Type

Debating whether to plant an in-ground, raised bed, or container garden? We’ve outlined the pros and cons to help you choose the best garden type for you.

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Tomato Plants Not Setting Fruit? Here’s Why

If you have trouble with tomato plants not setting fruit, heat is likely to blame. Keep plants healthy to ride through the heat wave, and help prevent this problem by growing heat-set varieties.

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DIY Plant Caddy

Containers are a great way to create a garden anywhere you have sun, but larger pots can be heavy and hard to move in case of frost, or to follow the sun as the seasons change. This DIY plant caddy is a easy-to-make solution.

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For Early Tomatoes, Try This

Several gardening strategies will help you achieve early tomatoes. Planting early-maturing varieties is one way, but try these tricks for early tomatoes, too.

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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 and Plant Dill

Learn how to grow dill, including planting, caring, troubleshooting, and harvesting. This herb adds flavor to many dishes, and butterflies love the flowers!

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How to Prune Tomatoes for a Big Harvest

Pruning tomato plants is an optional technique that some gardeners use to keep plants tidy, manipulate fruit size, and even speed ripening. There is one big catch: You should only prune indeterminate varieties, which produce new leaves and flowers continuously through the growing season. Here are some reasons to prune.