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A guide and resources for the ultimate vegetable garden
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Growing Lettuce in your Garden
Lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables in culinary arts and is used in salads and several other dishes. Hence, wouldn’t it be great if you could simply harvest one from your own garden? This will ensure the freshness of the lettuce while also saving you cost from having to buy them off the [...]
How to Grow Potatoes
Potatoes are relatively easy to grow, and taste great when grown in your garden. While potatoes are a root crop, they still require full sun to produce the best potatoes. Potatoes will grow best in a slightly acidic soil that ranges between 5.9 and 6.5. Since potatoes grow underground a soft loamy soil will produce [...]
How to grow lettuce from seed
Lettuce is one of the easier crops to grow, and can easily be started from seeds. Lettuce seeds are very small therefore you have to be careful when you break open the seed package. Sometimes the outer seed packer will then have a small inner seed package, as the seeds would get lost in the [...]
Choosing the Proper Tomato Varieties
One of the keys to getting a successful tomato harvest is to start off with the correct variety. Unfortunately the proper variety for one area of the country is different for other areas of the country. This is because there are different diseases and insects present in certain areas, and it would be best to [...]
Container Herb Garden
Do you love to use fresh herbs in the food you cook? Did you know that you can grow many of the herbs you buy in stores right in your own home? Even if you have very limited space, and no room for a garden you can grow your herbs in containers. Many herbs are [...]
Container Vegetable Gardening
For people that live in condominium, apartments, or just don’t have a large back yard, container vegetable gardening is a viable solution to a backyard garden. While it is true you still need a location for your containers that get adequate sun, there are certain varieties that require less sun than others, if this is [...]
Garden Weed Control
Everyone loves the benefits of a garden, but one of the worst enemies of a gardener are the weeds that grow in the garden. Garden weed control is important, as weeds are selected by nature and maintained as the survival of the fittest. Vegetables you may plant in your garden are selected for their taste, [...]
Vegetable Garden Design
It is important to layout and plan a garden prior to actually breaking ground. Planning a garden is one of the most important keys to a successful garden. There are many different areas you can designate to start your garden. You may want to have your garden in your backyard, on your patio, near the [...]
Easy Vegetable Gardening
Everyone starts as a beginning gardener at one point in their life. Some people start as children and are taught how to garden from their parents or grandparents, while others start much later in life. At whatever age you being gardening it is always best to start with vegetables that are easy to grow. This [...]
How to Grow Strawberries
Fruits such as strawberries are just as easy to grow as vegetables in a garden. You can plant your strawberries in a formal bed, or use them as a ground cover. There are three main types of strawberries you must choose from when you want to start a new crop. The first type is known [...]
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