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Learning How to Grow From Seeds
People often start thinking about learning how to grow from seeds after a season or two of gardening. Starting plants from seed is a simple way to save considerably on the costs of gardening for your vegetables. You will usually have an initial cost outlay, but once you have purchased the equipment you can use it year after year for only the cost of electricity and your soil mix, which saves loads of money … Read entire article »
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Learning to Garden – Growing Flowers
While most flowers are not edible, there is a place for flowers in your grocery garden. If nothing else, they provide refreshing scenery and spots of color in a sea of green. But more than that, they can be beneficial to a garden full of edibles. Flower blossoms and fragrances attract pollinators that are necessary for some plants to produce fruit. Other beneficial insects drawn by flowers will disperse in the garden to help with … Read entire article »
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Learning to Garden – Growing Fruit
Some of us have wonderful childhood memories of the smell of a juicy raspberry warmed by the sun or the tartness of a crisp apple from a backyard tree. Delicious fruit can be grown in small and large spaces. Even if you don’t have room for an orchard, you may find a spot for a dwarf fruit tree or a berry bush. Fruit trees and bushes require seasonal maintenance, but most are fairly easy to tend … Read entire article »
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Learning to Garden – Growing Vegetables
Have you ever tasted a tomato just picked from the vine? Or eaten corn on the cob minutes after it was harvested? If so, you know there’s nothing like the flavor and texture of fresh, fresh veggies. A sizeable vegetable garden requires a lot more work than an herb garden. In fact, vegetable gardening can be one of the most time-consuming types of gardening. Many vegetables require watering and fertilizing at regular intervals, and various plants … Read entire article »
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Learning to Garden – Growing Herbs
If you enjoy cooking–or even if you just like to eat well-seasoned food–try growing some of your own fresh herbs. Learning to garden by growing herbs is an easy and rewarding experience. You will be thankful over and over again for a small herb bed or planter near the kitchen door. Herb gardening is fairly simple and relaxing. If you’re looking for one type of gardening that doesn’t require a lot of maintenance, herb gardening … Read entire article »
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Learning to Garden – Four Places To Grow Your Groceries, Part 2 of 2
Continued from Part 1 Container Planting Container gardening is very flexible and adaptable. Many varieties of herbs, vegetables, and flowers—even dwarf fruit trees–can be grown in containers. This type of gardening provides a solution for various challenges, including lack of space, scattered sunlight, and gardeners’ physical limitations. Containers for planting can be utilitarian or fun, matching or eclectic. Many different receptacles can be used, including pots, planters, boxes, crates, buckets, tubs, crocks, and plastic storage containers. Since container plants … Read entire article »
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Learning to Garden – Four Places to Grow Your Groceries, Part 1 of 2
Learning to garden can be intimidating and overwhelming. There are countless different gardening methods, multiple forms of gardens, decisions about growing organic or not, etc. We’re going to break it down a bit into parts that are easy to digest. Today, we’ll address two different places you can grow some groceries. Traditional Garden Plots For centuries, gardeners have grown vegetables in garden patches of all sizes. Typically, the soil is tilled or turned before seeds or … Read entire article »
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Learning to Garden – Planning a Grocery Garden
If you are just learning to garden, you may have seen that there are many different types of gardens and as many ways to grow plants. Whether you live in an apartment or on large acreage, you can grow some groceries. Factors like available space and time, physical capabilities, desired results, and personal values will help you determine the type and size of your garden. The good news is that there’s a garden just for … Read entire article »
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