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Home Garden Tips

Gardening is a fun hobby, but it can be hard to get started. Home Garden Joy strives to make it easy and fun to begin your new garden. This section is devoted to many how-to tips: watering, soil, seed starting, composting, USDA hardiness zones, and all the things I've learned as I grew up with experienced gardeners by my side.  You'll find tips and tricks, and plenty of practice advice, too.

 

a tomato hornworm with parasitic wasp larvae on it

How to Get Rid of Tomato Hornworm

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Organic Gardening Tip: Banana Peels, Coffee Grinds and Eggshells for Composting

bee watering

Make a Bee Water Station with Dollar Store Finds

a slope in the garden planted with phlox

Easy Landscaping Ideas for a Hill or Slope

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Japanese Beetle Grubs: Identify and Control

fall garden update

Pruning Crape Myrtle – the Basics

squash bug nymphs

Where Do Bugs Go in the Winter?

clover in the driveway

New Weed Killer Tips Video

What Is Organic Gardening and Why Go Organic?

a red wheelbarrow filled with mulch with a shovel leaning against it

Cold Frame vs Greenhouse

a wheelbarrow with bag of soil, trowel, pots and plants

Easy Monthly Fall Garden Clean-Up Checklist

Homemade Weed Killers – More Harm Than Good

Planting a Symbolic Garden – Remembering People by Their Plants

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Why Get a Soil Test Done in the Fall?

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What Is This Foam on My Plant?

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A close up of radishes.

How to Grow Radishes from Seed: Easy Beginner Vegetable Garden Plant

I think every gardener starts with growing radishes. And why not? Radishes germinate readily, grow quickly, and add interest to salads. They’re also great when you have cabin fever after a long winter and you’re dying for something fresh from the garden. And while their spiciness may be an acquired taste, in some cuisines (including…

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Bok choy leaves photographed from above

My Fall Experiment: Growing Chinese Vegetables

Every gardener loves a good experiment, and this year mine involved stepping outside my usual vegetable lineup. I tried growing a few Chinese vegetables in my garden, and the results were delicious, a little surprising, and a whole lot of fun. If you’ve ever wondered whether these crops are worth a spot in your garden,…

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A close up of tatsoi, or vitamin plant, a Chinese vegetable, growing in a raised bed garden.

Growing Tatsoi: The Frost-Resistant Asian Vitamin Plant

Growing tatsoi (Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa (sometimes listed as Brassica rapa var. narinosa) offers fresh, leafy greens in USDA hardiness zone 7b throughout the fall and possibly the winter. Tatsoi isn’t sold in my local Kroger, Food Lion, or Walmart Super Center, but it’s easy enough to grow, and so delicious, that I plan to…

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A pot of red chrysanthemums on a wooden packing crate with pots and yellow mums on the ground.

November Gardening Tips

Tidying Up, Winding Down, and Looking Ahead Here in central Virginia, the first hints of fall show up in October, and by the end of the month cool nights are the norm. By November, frost is a given, the leaves have all turned, and most of the trees stand bare. November is a month for…

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