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Vegetable Gardening

Learn how to plant and grow a vegetable garden! You can grow a small food garden on your patio or follow our tips to grow enough food for a year for your family. 

Read about how to grow vegetables, grow fruit bushes, grow fruit trees and more. We’ve got tips for fixing soil, planting depths for strawberries, growing and weeding hacks for your backyard vegetable garden and lots more information for gardeners.

Grab a coffee and choose an article below…and…Happy Gardening!

grow your own food

Planning A Vegetable Garden

Learn how to plant garlic cloves

How to Plant Garlic Cloves – Growing Garlic Part 1

Save pea seed by drying

How to Save Pea Seed for Planting Next Year

Use and preserve Rhubarb by making ice cream

8 Ways to Use and Preserve Rhubarb

How Big of a Container Does a Pepper Plant Really Need?

Gardening Tips for Beginners

Top Gardening Tips for Beginners

Vegetable Garden Planner Printable

Vegetable Garden Planner Printable: Grow Your Best Garden Ever

How to Grow Runner Beans in the Greenhouse

The Fastest Way to Ripen Tomatoes Indoors

When to Harvest Potatoes – How to Store Potatoes

pumpkins ready for winter storage

How to Store Pumpkins and Winter Squash

hanging garlic is drying to cure

Growing Garlic – Part 3 How to Harvest and Cure Garlic

How to Grow Peppers From Seed

Beets harvested from growing in the garden

How to Plant and Grow Beets

The 8 Fastest Growing Vegetables for Your Garden

How to Grow Peas in the Garden or in Containers

How to grow garlic like this bed of 100 garlic bulbs

Growing Garlic in the Garden (4 Part Series)

a basket of harvested vegetables on a counter

10 Tips to Get the Most out of a Small Vegetable Garden

Grown carrots freshly dug sitting on the soil

How to Grow Carrots

best garlic cloves for planting lay on a paper bag

Best Garlic Cloves for Planting – Growing Garlic – Part 4

Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter

A large growing cabbage in the garden with a man's hand on it

How to Grow Cabbage

Pickled Garlic Scapes in Canning Jars on wood counter

How to Make Pickled Garlic Scapes

Transplant tomatoes to help them grow thick stems.

How to Transplant Tomato Plants

Zucchini plant in vegetable garden with 3 fruit

How to Grow Zucchini

How to Grow Rhubarb

Containers for Seed Starting

Make A Personalized Seed Starting Schedule

Annie Pic,

5 Reasons to Plant a Vegetable Garden

spring, garden, grow your own food

The Five “W’s” – Spring Chores

Cold Room Inventory

The 5 Easiest Vegetables to Grow

How to Sell Your Produce at the Farmers Markets

home made small greenhouse

How to Build a Greenhouse For Under $200

How to can Sauerkraut jars on a shelf

Canning Homemade Sauerkraut

Transplanted Tomatoes growing in a greenhouse

How to Transplant Tomatoes into a Greenhouse

non-GMO all natural

Non-GMO and Organic Grain – Resource Contact List

How to grow onions from sets in the garden or in containers

How to Grow Onions

potatoes growing in garden

How to Plant Potatoes

Planting with Some Incredible Seeds

Organic plant food means big worms in the soil like these.

An Organic Line of Plant Food

The Yellow Rope – an Update

how to keep deer out of the garden

How to Keep Deer out of the Garden

a field of garlic growing

Setting Goals for Your Homestead

How to Store Onions

Come Into the Greenhouse

Weeding an asparagus patch beside a basket of asparagus

How to Weed an Asparagus Patch

Direct Seeding (for Amanda)

Garlic and Jerusalem Artichokes

Tucking Your Yard In For The Winter – Part 1

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