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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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garden plans
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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Hot Summer Tips for Watering the Garden
Watering the garden in hot weather is crucial. Learn the best ways to water your garden in the summertime so your plants will thrive.
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Which Veggies for Which Season?
Learn which vegetables to plant in summer, spring, and fall. Seasonal vegetable planting is the first step to a beautiful and bountiful garden.
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Planning Your Fall Garden
Transitioning the vegetable garden from spring to fall can seem like a daunting task, but while the heat is still on in many areas of the U.S., it is time to think about preparing a fall vegetable garden for cool-season vegetables.
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Squash Salad
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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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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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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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Parmesan Squash
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Cucumber Tomato Salad
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Squash Puppies
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Growing Bee Balm
Bee balm is a beautiful flower that's as attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds as it is to humans. Get expert tips for growing bee balm in your garden.
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Why I Love Heirloom Tomatoes
There are so many reasons to love heirloom tomatoes! Find out why garden blogger Dee Nash loves these tasty gems.
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How to Plant a Fall Garden
If you're new to gardening, you might not realize that the growing and harvesting season can extend into fall. Learn how you can stretch your growing season.
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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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Meet the Urban Gardeners
Urban gardeners use salvaged materials and creativity to build a mini-farm in their backyard. Learn from their experience to grow your own urban garden.
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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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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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recipes
Quick Pickled Summer Squash
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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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garden fundamentals
Which Onion Is Right For You?
If you have ever planted onions only to grow a lackluster harvest of small bulbs, your growing technique may not be the issue. You may have started with the wrong onion. There are three types of onions, each one better suited for a certain part of the country. If you plant the wrong one, you may not get much of a harvest. Here's how to tell which onion is right for you.
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Rotating Vegetable Crops for Garden Success
Home vegetable gardens will benefit as much from rotating vegetable crops as big farms do. Learn what crop rotation means and how to make it work in your garden.
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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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How to Grow Tomatoes in Hot Weather
Sizzling summer temperatures can bring your previously productive tomato plants to a screeching halt. When days hit 85°F to 90°F and nights hover above 75°F, tomato flowers often fail to pollinate, then drop -- which in turn puts new fruit production on hold.
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