Gardening Guides

Gardening Guides

Container Gardening

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Italian garden mid-July

Starting Your First Vegetable Garden: Beginning Gardening

Different mini vegetables scattered on a white table.

Growing Mini-Vegetables in Containers: Small Space Gardening

Hands holding homemade potting soil.

Homemade Potting Soil vs Commercial: + Preventing Damping-Off

A variety of herbs and edibles growing in different size pots.

Tips for Growing Vegetables in Pots or Containers

Growing Tomatoes

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Different mini vegetables scattered on a white table.

Growing Mini-Vegetables in Containers: Small Space Gardening

A variety of herbs and edibles growing in different size pots.

Tips for Growing Vegetables in Pots or Containers

Hand holding miniature vegetables

Mini-Vegetables for Urban Kitchen Gardens: (aka Baby Vegetables)

Balcony garden of containers filled with Italian varieties of herbs and veggies.

14 Best Tomato Varieties Italian Kitchen Gardens

Year-Round Gardening

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A variety of herbs and edibles growing in different size pots.

Tips for Growing Vegetables in Pots or Containers

Bark chip mulch held in hands with gardening gloves.

Guide to Using Mulch for your Vegetable Garden

An array of gardening equipment.

Best Gifts for the Gardener

Lemon tree in terra cotta pot.

Overwintering Plants Grown in Pots: Indoors & Outdoors

Growing Blueberries

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2-year old blueberry plants in pots growing on deck.

Protecting Blueberry Plants Grown in Pots Over Winter

Blueberry bush showing stages of blueberry ripeness, from green, to purple to blue

6 Ways To Save Unripe Blueberries:(Green Berries)

Blue crop variety of blueberry bush in a field in Minnesota.

Myths Around Blueberries: Growing, Cooking or Health

Northland blueberry plant covered with ripe blueberries

How To Grow the Sweetest Blueberries

Seed Starting

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Hands holding homemade potting soil.

Homemade Potting Soil vs Commercial: + Preventing Damping-Off

Hand holding tomato plant that is not in a pot and shows the root ball.

Root Bound Tomato Plants | Signs & Fixes

Tomato seedling in terracotta planter.

Preventing 6 Most Common Problems in Tomato Seedlings

Leggy tomato seedlings on a window sill.

Problems and Solutions for Leggy Tomato Plants

Preserving Garden Food

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Heirloom tomato relish for brats, chops and steaks

Tomato Bruschetta Relish: Fresh or Canned

Tomato butter on rustic thick bread with scallions as garnish on top.

Homemade Tomato Butter and Tomato Spreads

Variety of chile peppers that would work for a salsa garden

Essential Mexican Pantry Ingredients for Celebrations & Fiestas

Jar of classic pesto made with fresh basil.

Easy Freezer Basil Pesto: Tips for Fresh Taste