Vegetable Garden Projects

Learn how to garden with a variety of different garden methods to find what works for you with these fun inspirational vegetable garden projects.

Grow a foodscape garden, survival garden, or a micro-orchard right in your own backyard. Learn how to build your garden soil with a worm tunnel planted right in your garden beds.

Learn how to combat the typical spring gardening problems and get a head start on your garden for the year with helpful tips and tricks.

Discover how to attract pollinators to your vegetable garden for the best harvest ever. Learn about companion planting and how to start a square-foot garden.

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Vegetable Garden Projects

Why Growing a Potato Patch Is Important for Survival

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Growing homegrown potatoes in your backyard provides your family with a delicious healthy and versatile vegetable. You can turn a potato into so many recipes that these vegetables should be a staple in your yard and pantry. Growing a potato patch in just ten square feet can provide you with eighty to one hundred pounds of potatoes! Potatoes can be grown year round, stored long-term in their whole form, provide endless seed potatoes, versatile in dishes, and they are delicious. Let’s learn more about why growing a potato patch is important for survival. CLICK TO READ MORE.

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How to Avoid These Common Spring Gardening Problems

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Spring gardening alone has many problems from unpredicted weather conditions, seeds not germinating, seedlings looking rather ill, confusion about when to plant, not planting the right varieties of plants for our area, planting plants too close together because they are cute and tiny in the beginning, killing seedlings during hardening off outside and spreading diseases with unsanitized tools, equipment, and containers. We have all been there and done many of these mistakes and I am guilty of these gardening crimes myself. Spring can trick us all into thinking that it is time to plant new plants and bring our indoor plants back outside and then the unspeakable sneaky frost swipes in unannounced to kill them all. This post will help better prepare you for your spring gardening and help you have a successful growing season. Let’s elaborate further on unpredicted spring weather conditions. CLICK TO READ MORE.

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How to Do Companion Planting: Friends or Foes?

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Plants that like each other, attract beneficial insects and pollinators to each other as well as repel pesky enemies to keep each other safe, happy, and healthy. Remember your tight-knit friend group in school when you all looked out for each other? Keeping your enemies out and your friends in is exactly the same thing that plants like to do too. When you keep their foes away from them, you will be preventing your garden from acquiring diseases and pests and find that you do not need extra help with chemicals just to be successful. If you skip companion planting in your garden, you are more likely to resort to using chemicals on your plants. CLICK TO READ MORE.

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How to Plant A Climate-Friendly Garden: Strategies for Beginners

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Climate-friendly gardening is a way of gardening that reduces emissions of greenhouse gases that gardens can produce and encourage the absorption of carbon dioxide from the soil and plants to aid in the reduction of global warming. You may think your little home garden cannot make a difference in the combat against climate change, however, it does in comparison to other gardeners who are growing and building healthy plants and fertile soils. CLICK TO READ MORE.

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