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How to Build a Square Foot Garden

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Natural Weed Control in the Vegetable Garden

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How to Grow Parsley

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10 Vegetable Gardening Tips for Beginners

Thyme is a low-growing, woody perennial herb grown for garden beauty and culinary uses. Use these tips to grow thyme in your garden so you can enjoy this beautiful and versatile herb.

How to Grow Thyme

Get a jump-start on enjoying fresh harvests by planting these fast growing vegetables this spring.

15 Fast Growing Vegetables for Spring

Crop rotation is a great way to maintain healthy soil and reduce pests and diseases in the organic vegetable garden. Discover the benefits of crop rotation and how to apply it to your backyard vegetable garden.

Benefits of Crop Rotation for Your Vegetable Garden

How to Build Healthy Garden Soil

7 Simple Techniques to Improve Garden Soil

Basil is a tender annual herb that is easy to grow indoors on a sunny windowsill, outside in the garden, or in containers on your patio. Learn how to grow basil indoors, outdoors, and in containers with these tips.

How to Grow Basil

6 Ways to Protect Plants from Frost

6 Ways to Protect Plants from Frost

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How to Grow Microgreens Indoors

If you are growing an edible landscape, you may wonder how to take advantage of the shady spots near buildings or around trees. Shady areas in your yard may be the perfect spot to plant herbs. Here are 12 culinary herbs that grow in partial shade.

13 Culinary Herbs That Grow in Partial Shade

Growing your own vegetable garden transplants from seed is pretty straightforward, but sometimes you can run into problems. Here's how to identify and resolve some of the most common issues you may run into when starting seeds indoors.

Troubleshooting Seed Starting Problems

Chives grow in an upright clump of hollow leaves that reach about a foot high. In summer, the plants send up pretty blossoms. All parts of the chive plant are edible.

How to Grow Chives

Beets do double-duty in the kitchen, producing tasty roots for canning, roasting, or boiling and fresh greens for salads, soups, and sautéing. Beets can be planted as spring and fall crops. Here are tips for growing beets plus types of beets to consider adding to your vegetable garden.

How to Grow Beets from Seed to Harvest

Craving fresh harvests during the winter or lack outdoor gardening space? Then start an indoor garden.

How to Grow an Indoor Garden

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

Even if you don’t have outdoor gardening space, there are plenty of herbs that you can grow indoors successfully on a sunny windowsill. If you do grow herbs in your garden, fall is a great time to think about starting an indoor windowsill herb garden to grow herbs indoors so you can enjoy their fresh flavor all winter long.

Grow Herbs Indoors: 5 Herbs that Thrive Inside

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