Gardening

Your favorites include articles about growing an organic vegetable garden, preserving the harvest, and enjoying garden fresh recipes!

Grow a Good Life’s Top 10 Posts of 2017

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How to Grow Garlic: Tips for Growing Great Garlic

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12 Easiest Vegetables to Grow in Your Garden

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

Here is some of the best content from Grow a Good Life over this past year. These are the top 10 gardening and simple living posts that you have viewed, pinned, and shared during 2016.

Grow a Good Life’s Top 10 Posts of 2016

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

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How to Save Bean Seeds to Plant Next Year

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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

cover of ebook Grow a Good Life Guide to Planning Your Vegetable Garden

Grow a Good Life Guide to

Planning Your Vegetable Garden eBook

Whether you are new to growing your own food or have been growing a vegetable garden for years, you will benefit from some planning each year. Grow a Good Life Guide to Planning Your Vegetable Garden will guide you through the steps to planning your vegetable garden.