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Guide to Indoor Vegetable Gardening

If you love homegrown vegetables and herbs, here’s something you should know: You can grow them year-round inside. With a little planning, the right tools, and a few helpful tips, you’ll soon be enjoying culinary creations from your own indoor vegetable garden—and your space will look lush and lovely, too.

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Grow an Indoor Salad Garden

Whether you garden indoors to beat the cold or enjoy growing inside year round, you’ll love the truly homegrown goodness of an indoor salad garden!

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Grow an Indoor Tea Garden

Growing herbs for tea adds greenery to your home while providing a soothing ritual. Follow these easy steps for planting and brewing your own indoor tea garden

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Grow an Indoor Herb Garden

Fabulous flavor and mood-boosting fragrance? Yes, please! Plant an indoor herb garden to delight your senses and take culinary creativity to the next level.

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How to Grow Herbs Indoors

Even if you live in an apartment or condo without any outdoor space, you can grow herbs indoors. The ideal setting for an indoor herb garden is the kitchen.

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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 Basil

It's easy to learn how to grow basil, a versatile, delicious herb. Get expert tips for growing basil in your own home garden.

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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 Catnip

Fresh catnip is a real treat for cats. Get expert tips for growing the unique catnip herb at home, both in your garden and even indoors.

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How to Start Plants from Seed

Growing from seed is a smart way to round out your garden—and it gives you a wonderful sense of accomplishment! Here's how to do it.

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Intro to Plant Food

Bonnie Plants plant food contains natural ingredients that promote the growth of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Use it in your garden for great results.

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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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Growing Sage

Learn how to grow, harvest, and dry sage. Beautiful in garden landscapes and pots, it is an essential ingredient in poultry seasoning and turkey stuffing.

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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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Growing Swiss Chard

Swiss chard is both edible and ornamental. Learn tips for growing Swiss chard and add lovely color and gourmet flavor to your vegetable and herb garden.

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Creative Vertical Gardening Ideas

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How to Preserve Hot Peppers, In the Dark or Otherwise

Learn how to preserve hot peppers by making pepper jelly or dehydrating. Kelly shares her experience preserving hot peppers in this Bonnie Plants blog post.

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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 Citronella (Mosquito Plant)

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

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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 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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Growing Succulents

Growing succulents indoors is easy, but our expert tips on how to care for these low-maintenance plants will really help them flourish.

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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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Row Cover Fabric Equals Protection for Your Plants

A row cover protects garden plants from cold, wind, excess sun, and insects. Discover how to use a row cover in your garden to extend the growing season.