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Do you want to grow your own food, but worry that you don't have time to tend to a garden? These tips will help you plan a low-maintenance vegetable garden that will reward you with fresh food throughout the garden season.

7 Tips for a Low-Maintenance Vegetable Garden

Growing potatoes using trench and hill method involves digging trenches, planting seed potatoes, and hilling the potato plants as they grow. This is the traditional method of growing potatoes that farmers have used for centuries only scaled down for the backyard garden.

How to Grow Potatoes: Trench and Hill Method

Have you tried growing potatoes in your garden? Growing potatoes is fun and not that difficult! You can grow unique varieties not found in supermarkets.

8 Great Tips for Growing Potatoes

Did you know you could root tomato suckers for a second crop of fresh and healthy plants? Cloning tomato plants from suckers is quicker than starting a new crop from seed.

How to Root Tomato Suckers and Grow New Plants

jar of saved bean seeds

How to Save Bean Seeds to Plant Next Year

leafy greens growing in a shady area of the garden

30+ Vegetables That Grow in Shade

Attracting and encouraging frogs and toads to live in your garden keeps the pest population down and reduces the need for pesticides or other natural insect deterrents. Just one frog or toad can eat up to 10,000 pests during the garden season. Here are some tips on how to attract and encourage toads and frogs to live in your garden.

How to Attract Frogs and Toads to Your Garden

A tomato trellis is a freestanding structure usually made from wood or metal that is used to support the sprawling vines and heavy fruit of the tomato plant. Providing support for your tomato plants helps keep the plants healthy, so they can produce maximum yields. The type of trellis support you will need for your tomatoes depends on the variety you are growing. Read on for some creative DIY tomato trellis ideas.

9 Creative DIY Tomato Trellis Ideas

Chitting potatoes is also called greensprouting, or pre-sprouting. Chitting it is a way of preparing potatoes for planting by encouraging them to sprout before planting in the ground. This gives the tubers a head start and encourages faster growth and heavier crops once the seed potatoes are planted.

Chitting Potatoes Gives Them a Head Start

Close up view of a hand planting seeds in the garden.

13 Easy Vegetables to Direct Sow

basket of colorful vegetables

10 Reasons to Grow a Vegetable Garden

Growing your own seedlings from seed offers you more flexibly and control over your garden. You can choose your favorite varieties, grow the number of plants you need, and work within the planting dates that suit your growing area. Here are ten steps for starting seeds indoors.

10 Steps to Starting Seedlings Indoors