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When planning your vegetable garden, it is easy to become overwhelmed with the selection. Here are some tips to help you with choosing vegetables to grow.

Vegetable Garden Planning: Choosing Vegetables to Grow

image of a young rosemary plant in terracotta pot

How to Propagate a Rosemary Plant from Stem Cuttings

Healthy potato plants growing in a large pot.

How to Grow Potatoes in Containers

Missed your chance to plant garlic last fall? Has your winter storage garlic sprouted? Try planting spring garlic. You may not get large cloves, but you can still enjoy the mild flavor of green garlic.

Planting Spring Garlic

Lettuce seedlings growing in soil blocks.

How to Use Soil Blocks for Growing Seedlings

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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

leafy greens growing in a shady area of the garden

30+ Vegetables That Grow in Shade

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