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Feeding the Soil Feeds Your Plants

One of the most important elements of a successful garden is good soil. Without it, plants just won't flourish. Find out how to feed your soil.

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Artichoke & Mint Container Garden

Plant up this Artichoke & Mint Container Garden with your favorite kind of mint and you'll have an eye-catching design that delivers great flavor, too.

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Pizza Garden in Containers

Grow pizza ingredients fresh right outside your door with this pizza garden designed for containers. It's perfect for patios!

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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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Tea Garden in Containers

Brew your own tea from freshly picked herbs grown in your very own tea garden in containers. Just follow our easy planting plan.

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Salad Garden in Containers

Have the ingredients for a fresh salad at your fingertips with this space-saving salad garden that can be grown in containers.

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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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Herb Garden in Containers

Grow fresh herbs to add flavor to soups, salads, beverages, and more in this simple herb garden designed for containers.

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Mediterranean 4 x 4-foot Garden

Grow a Mediterranean vegetable garden using this plan for a 4 x 4 bed. The plan includes Mediterranean ingredients such as eggplant, basil, and tomatoes.

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Hot and Sweet 4 x 4-foot Pickling Garden

Using this plan, gardeners of any skill level can produce their own ingredients for fresh, homemade pickles and pickled veggies.

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Fresh Tomato and Pesto 4 x 4-foot Garden

A tomato and pesto garden gives you ingredients for fresh pesto and pesto's perfect companion—tomatoes! Grow this tomato and pesto garden for summer.

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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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4 x 4-foot Homemade Salsa Garden

Grow the plants for homemade salsa in your own Salsa Garden in a 4x4 raised bed or in-ground garden. The plan includes tomatoes, peppers, onions, and herbs.

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Fresh and Early 4 x 4 foot Salad Garden

If your clan loves salads, you’re in luck — this bed supplies enough for the whole family. You’ll be surprised with how much salad you’ll harvest from a small, but well-tended space.

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Fresh and Handy 4 x 4-foot Herb Garden

Keep a collection of herbs handy with this herb garden plan designed for a 4 x 4-foot bed. The plan includes several types of kitchen herbs used every day.

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4 x 4 Grilling Garden

Many vegetables go great on the grill, either for a side dish or as the main event. Find out how to plant your own grilling garden.

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4 x 4-foot Cajun Garden

Are you itching to fill your big kitchen pot with gumbo, jambalaya, or another classic Cajun entree? Build your own cajun 4x4 raised garden bed with these suggestions.

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Sweet and Spicy 4 x 4-foot Pepper Garden

Planting a pepper garden is easy using this simple plan for a 4 x 4 pepper garden. Choose the types of pepper that you love most. Learn more.

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4 x 4-foot Chiles Rellenos Garden

Give your next batch of chiles rellenos a super-fresh flavor boost with ingredients picked from your very own garden.

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Fast and Fresh 4 x 4-foot Pizza Garden

Use this pizza garden plan to grow fresh ingredients for homemade pizza. What better way to get kids to eat their veggies than putting them on pizza?

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4 x 4-foot Tabbouleh Garden

Plant this garden in spring after your last frost date, and choose tomato and cucumber varieties that grow best in your area.

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Easy and Tasty 4 x 4-foot Kids' Garden

This kids' vegetable garden plan from Bonnie Plants features a variety of kid-sized vegetables and herbs that are flavorful and attract butterflies.

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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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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.