Vegetable Garden Planning: 3 Steps to Get You Started
From the time I started planning my first backyard vegetable garden until now, I’ve learned more and more how crucial garden planning is to the success of a garden. I end up tweaking my planning…
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My 8 Favorite Garden Tools and Gardening Books
Even during the off-season, gardening is always on my mind. I’m dreaming, researching, reading, and planning. I love searching for new garden tools that may streamline my work next season, and I love researching garden…
Expert Advice on Growing Tomatoes
If there’s one vegetable that tops everyone’s garden planning list, it’s the tomato. But growing tomatoes isn’t as simple as it may seem. First, you have to choose which varieties to grow. Whether you’re perusing…
Grow Green Beans to Last All Year
If there’s one plant I’d say I’ve had the most success with since I began gardening, it would be green beans. I never would have predicted it, though, because when I planted my first seed,…
4 Ways to Grow a Healthy Garden without Pesticides
You should see the shock on people’s faces when they ask how I control insects in my garden and I reply, “I don’t use pesticides.” Of course, I clarify that statement by explaining that I…