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Grocery Gardening – Fall In Love With Fresh Foods
About a month ago I began hearing a buzz on Twitter about a new book that was coming out pertaining to growing and using fresh produce. Of course, any time I get word of these two topics my ears perk up as if E.F. Hutton were about to speak (those that grew up in the ’80’s know what I’m referring to). I began researching this new book on the internet to find out all I could about... Continue »
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Common Vegetable Gardening Mistakes
Whether you are a new vegetable gardener or a seasoned pro, we are all bound to make mistakes in the vegetable garden. I know I have made (and still make) my fair share of follies. Growing vegetables is an art that takes some practice, a little elbow grease and sometimes a bit of good fortune. Picasso did not paint a masterpiece his first time at the... Continue »
The 7 Best Beginner Vegetables For New Gardeners
A new vegetable gardener may find there are endless vegetable possibilities available to grow and choosing the best ones for your first vegetable garden can seem a bit daunting. Do not let this stop you from starting your own vegetable garden. Most vegetables are fairly easy to grow with just a little TLC. It is best to choose vegetables that are not... Continue »
Top 15 Best Vegetable Gardening Blogs
There are literally hundreds of blogs online today offering an endless amount of great vegetable gardening tips and advice. You can find a cool trick or two at just about every click – anything from how to grow tomatoes to how to set up a worm composting bin – on the various vegetable gardening blogs available on the net. If you are new... Continue »
Create A Fresh Salad Garden
One of the most wonderful things about growing a vegetable garden is that you have the flexibility of growing what you like to eat the most. You can also control exactly how the vegetables are grown. A few weeks ago, I featured a post on creating a salsa garden as a part of your vegetable garden. If you have a specific purpose for your home grown vegetables,... Continue »
4 Items For Easier Seed Sowing
After giving 20 tips for starting seeds indoors, I figured it would be a good time to also discuss some items that make it much easier for sowing seeds. Sowing seeds can sometimes be a tedious task, especially for those very tiny seeds. Seed tapes can help aid with sowing tiny seeds outdoors, but when sowing indoors it is usually done by hand. It can... Continue »
Read More From The Vegetable Garden BlogGrowing Tomatoes
Old German Heirloom Tomato – March Tomato of the Month
The Tomato of the Month for March is the Old German Heirloom Tomato. This tomato was a favorite of Mennonite... Continue »
Should You Prune Tomato Plants?
Vegetable gardeners have argued for years about whether tomato plants should be pruned or not. Some gardeners... Continue »
8 Unusual Items For Fertilizing Tomatoes
Just about every tomato grower has a secret weapon for growing those perfect tomatoes. There are just... Continue »
Choosing The Best Tomato Supports
There are almost as many options for supporting tomato plants as there are tomato varieties to choose... Continue »
12 Uses For Your Preserved Tomatoes During Winter
You have worked hard growing and harvesting all those tomatoes during the summer and fall, and have a... Continue »
Tomato – Fruit or Vegetable?
Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? That is a question that has been around since the discovery of the... Continue »
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How To Attract Beneficial Insects To The Vegetable Garden
Yesterday’s post was about how to identify beneficial insects, now we need to know how to get them... Continue »
How To Identify Beneficial Insects In The Vegetable Garden
Some gardeners may get the urge to zap any insect they may see in the vegetable garden. Before ridding... Continue »
How To Easily Make Your Own Potting Soil
If you love to grow vegetables by container gardening you may want to make your own potting soil instead... Continue »
How To Read A Seed Packet
Most gardeners may feel very comfortable understanding all the information that comes on a seed packet,... Continue »
How To Measure The Drainage Of Your Soil
If you have a new garden area in mind, there are several tasks you should perform before sowing that... Continue »
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Add Fallen Leaves To Your Garden Soil
Although most of the country is in the middle of winter, there are still some southern areas that are... Continue »
Compost Can Improve Your Soil’s Health
Adding compost to your garden soil will help to improve just about any soil type – whether it is... Continue »
30 Unusual Items You Can Compost
The next time you are throwing an item in the trash, think about whether you can compost it instead.... Continue »
Use Direct Composting In Your Garden
If you do not like the idea of having a compost pile or composting equipment in your yard then direct... Continue »
Read More About CompostingDelicious Vegetable Recipes
Ricotta Stuffed Banana Peppers
Ingredients 1 cup ricotta cheese (8 ounces) 1 cup cream cheese, at room temperature 1/2 cup freshly grated... Continue »
Light and Fresh Potato Salad from Cooking Light
This potato salad looked so delicious, I just had to try it. I was not disappointed, and I don’t... Continue »
Broccoli-Cauliflower Soup – Home Baked Memories
Kathy, from Home Baked Memories, was kind enough to share her delicious recipe for Broccoli-Cauliflower... Continue »
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