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Vegetable Gardening
Growing a vegetable garden is one of the simplest ways to enhance not only your garden but to put a little extra flavor into your life. There is nothing better than a ripe tomato fresh off the vine, or a sweet strawberry patch that your kids can pick the tasty treats right out of your own backyard. You can even start a salad garden with a wide variety of lettuces, cucumbers, and herbs to give yourself the gift of fresh greens right outside your doorstep.
Holiday Projects
Ever feel like the year just flies by and then suddenly.. it's Christmas time again! I always feel like I just need to slow down and enjoy each year and sometimes decorating a tree or carving a pumpkin is just the way to get me in the mood for a good holiday celebration.
Kitchen Gardening
Satisfy your appetite and garden desires - grow edibles in your landscape!
Cut Flowers & Flower Arranging
Cut flowers bring the beauty of the garden inside. There is so much that is satisfying about gardening, not the least of which is gathering a beautiful country bouquet or a single perfect rose from the garden to bring indoors as a gift for yourself or someone special.
Beneficial Insects
Insects in your garden can be great! By creating a thriving community of beneficial insects, your garden can remain pest and disease free with no chemicals necessary!
Kid's Gardening Camp
Gardening Camp is not only for those hot summer days, but can be great activities for you and your kids to do together all year long.
Vines and Climbers
Morning Glories, passion vines, climbing roses, oh my!
Shade Lovers
Gardening in shade can be tricky but take heart - there are wonderful opportunities to play with flowers, foliage, texture and color.
Diseases & Pests
A guide to help deal with diseases big and small in your gardens, and those unwanted pests.
Gardening Books
Having a gardening book library is now more important than ever with everything getting digitized. Feeling a real live book in your hands will bring inspiration and joy!
Seeds & Seed Starting
All plants start with the seed, and to get your vegetable garden going seeds are a great way to see the process of vegetable growing from beginning to end. Because it is inexpensive you can try a variety of different seeds and experiment a little!
recipes from the garden
Here you will find oodles of great recipes for your delicious and juicy vegetables that you have worked so hard to grow in your vegetable garden.
Weekend Garden Projects
Weekends are for relaxing, and there's no better way to do that than with an easy-as-pie project that can be done, start to finish, in the course of a weekend. Get started by clicking on a project!
Beekeeping
Bees are an essential part of the ecosystem to any garden big or small. From the backyard gardener to the farmer that is growing thousands of crops every year, we are all dependent on the bee for pollinating our plants.
There has been a lot of talk about the bees disappearing and how scary the prospect of not having bees around is for our future, and the future of food production.
