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Hanging Green Bell Peppers in Your Garden

Hanging Tomato Plants free up space in your garden and offer a large, great tasting yield of tomatoes for your enjoyment. You can also hang other vegetables with the same results. I started hanging green peppers and cucumbers last year and had great results.

2 comments    family food garden
The much-maligned dandelion is an excellent nutrient accumulator. Photo by *Micky.84

Dynamic Accumulators for Better Soil

Gardeners can reduce or eliminate fertilizer costs and improve soil naturally with a category of plant known as "dynamic accumulators." Dynamic accumulators gather nutrients from the soil and make them...

4 comments    gardening plants permaculture
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How To Grow Great Potatoes

Potatoes, mashed, baked, boiled scalloped and perhaps my favourite, potato salad especially when it is made with new red potatoes, are a great food. What is even better you can grow your own potatoes and...

41 comments    advice food garden
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Compatible Planting

It took me years to realize, better said to recall all Gramps had told about garden companions. To me as a teenager it really didn't matter that the tomato and the potato didn't want to be neighbors. Neither...

60 comments    garden potato planting
An easy to Make Dish Terrarium with 5 plants 77

make a terrarium

A Terrarium is an arrangement of plants together in one container, often with other things like rocks, stones or miniature figures and items. Sometimes the goal of a terrarium is just to create a pleasing...

home garden plants
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Small Space Vegetable Garden

Keeping a small space vegetable garden thriving is actually a lot easier than you may think. The work isn’t onerous, and you can grow an awful lot in a very small space. For example, vegetables and other...

20 comments    plants fruit vegetable
Use empty soda bottles and milk cartons as cloches by cutting the bottoms out. Image: Garden Organic87

What To Plant: Plan Your Early Spring Garden

December is the time to begin planning for the early spring garden. There are many cold hardy vegetables that you can plant now for early harvest if you live in a temperate planting zone.

11 comments    how to home gardening
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Vegetable Garden Companion Planting

Vegetable garden companion planting is a great way to deter pests, increase plant-health vitality, and improve taste. In your veggie garden, what could be better? The result of companion planting: big, juicy,...

4 comments    gardening garden plants
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Plant a Bee Garden

Beneficial bees are necessary to the success of gardens, orchards, and farms, but their numbers are in decline around the world. A bee garden is a beautiful and fragrant way to lend a helping hand. ...

5 comments    how to recreation environment
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Heirloom Vegetables and Fruits in the Home Garden

Put simply, heirloom vegetables are the types of vegetables that our ancestors grew for centuries. During those centuries the vegetables, and fruits for that matter, adapted to their environments becoming...

7 comments    food gardening garden
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