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Grow Food in Your Backyard

If you’ve always wanted to grow your own food but you kill plastic plants, this is the gardening website for you. 

Welcome to Home Garden Joy!  I’ll teach you how to grow delicious fruit and vegetables, and how to grow and use common herbs for health and wellness. New to gardening? I’ve got you covered with over 1,000 articles on everything from apples to zinnias. So come on in – soon you’ll have a garden to be proud of!

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Watermelon in the Home Garden

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Growing Zucchini in Raised Beds

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How to Grow Cucumbers: A Complete Guide

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Growing Eggplant: A Guide for Gardeners

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Growing Zucchini in Raised Beds

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Clary sage is a beautiful biennial flower. Have you ever heard the saying, "Good things come to he who waits?" That's clary sage. It took me two years ...

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Grow Fruit in Your Backyard

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What does “dwarf fruit tree” mean? What do the terms semi-dwarf and standard mean? I’ll explain what these terms mean and how they change how you grow fruit in your backyard. What Is a “Dwarf Fruit Tree”? A dwarf fruit tree is a tree that bears full-sized fruit but the tree itself needs only a…

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    Volunteer Plants – Nature’s Unexpected Gifts

    Volunteer plants are one of nature’s most delightful surprises. They spring up unbidden, often in places we didn’t expect—cracks in sidewalks, corners of compost piles, or nestled beside a stone foundation, like the vibrant coleus seedlings growing near my deck shown in these pictures. These botanical freeloaders aren’t weeds; they’re plants that have reseeded themselves…

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    The Herbal Academy is offering a free ebook on herbal safety! I just sent an email out to our Home Garden Joy community and downloaded my copy and WOW – not only is it chock-full of information, it’s beautiful to look at, too. And free. Did I mention free? Learn More About Using Herbs –…

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    Watermelon in the Home Garden

    Growing watermelon in the home garden is not for the faint of heart. I have plenty of room, and it still threatened to take over the garden. You will either need to leave a lot of room for the sprawling vines or look for varieties specifically marked for containers. Growing it on a trellis is…

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    Growing Zucchini in Raised Beds

    Growing zucchini in raised beds ensures that this prolific vegetable has the best conditions to thrive. You can grow zucchini in pots or containers, but I prefer growing it in raised beds. This is a great vegetable to grow if you have a “black thumb” and kill plastic plants, because it’s hard to grow a…

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