Whether you’re new to backyard gardening or just bought your first home and have always longed for the day when you can plant an organic vegetable garden, these tips for starting a backyard garden offer newcomers to the world of gardening useful information to help you be successful. Vegetable gardening doesn’t need to be expensive,…
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Beginner’s Tips to Starting a Vegetable Garden
What to Plant in Early Spring: Vegetable Garden
What to plant in early spring depends on your gardening zone, but there are many great choices for vegetable gardening that can make your backyard garden productive early in the season. Spring Vegetable Gardening With careful planning, the average backyard gardener in most gardening zones in the United States can grow fresh, organic vegetables throughout…
How to Grow Green Beans Organically
Beans – whether green beans, snap beans, heirloom beans, or any other kind of beans – are easy to grow organically. They need warm temperatures, full sunshine, and fertile soil to grow at their best. While there are insect pests that will eat the leaves of bean plants, they generally don’t harm the beans themselves,…
How to Adjust Soil pH for Vegetable Gardens
How to Test Soil pH If you slept through high school chemistry class, never fear. You can still learn the basics of soil pH for vegetables to ensure a great garden this year. pH refers to the scale of acid to alkaline, a scale developed in the early 20th century by chemists trying to describe…