Gardening Courses Online

Learn gardening and herbalism with our gardening courses online, herbalism courses online, and free gardening courses and information.

The Home Garden Joy Academy

Founded in 2021, the Home Garden Joy Academy seeks to make gardening easy and accessible for all. All of our courses are delivered online in an easy, learn at your own pace format. Courses come complete with videos, downloadable textbooks, resource guides and more to enhance your learning experience.

Available Gardening Courses Online

Easy Indoor Herb Gardening

Learn how to grow any herb indoors! This course will teach you how to successfully grow basil, thyme, rosemary, and many other fun herbs in a sunny kitchen or under lights in your home. You’ll never run out of fresh herbs when you grow your own!

Easy Indoor Herb Gardening Course – $49

Totally Tomatoes (Coming Spring 2022)

You’ll be the envy of the neighborhood when you show off your gorgeous homegrown tomatoes! Learn how to grow the best tomatoes anywhere – big, flavorful, juicy, ripe garden tomatoes. This course covers tomato varieties, growing tomatoes in pots and containers, pests and diseases, staking and pruning tomatoes, and more.

Herbalism Courses Online from The Herbal Academy

Home Garden Joy is an affiliate of The Herbal Academy and the following are affiliate links. We are a participant in the Herbal Academy affiliate program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Herbal Academy courses.

These herbalism courses online are taught by great instructors and feature basic to advanced information for all levels.

Gardening Books

cover of plan and build a raised bed garden

Plan and Build a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden by Jeanne Grunert

Home Garden Joy’s very own Jeanne Grunert shares with you how to plan and build your first raised bed vegetable garden. From planning the paths to building beds, this short book will guide you through all aspects of starting a raised bed garden.

Plan and Build a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden – Amazon (Paperback & Kindle)

Attract Birds to Your Garden by Jeanne Grunert

This short little book will help you transform your backyard into a bird sanctuary. Learn which plants to grow – trees, shrubs, annual and perennial flowers – to attract many types of birds as well as other aspects of a backyard bird sanctuary.

Attract Birds to Your Garden – Amazon Paperback and Kindle

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fig salad recipe with fresh cantaloupe, figs, and basil

Fig Salad Recipe: Figs and Cantaloupe with Basil Dressing

I promised to share this French fig salad recipe with you. This recipe originally came from a cookbook by Georgeanne Brennan called Savoring France: Recipes and Reflections on French Cooking. I updated the recipe to remove the dairy and fat. The result is a flavorful, lower calorie dessert that sparkles with the essence of the…

What to Do with Fresh Figs?

What to do with fresh figs? Well, you can eat them, of course. If you are growing figs in Virginia or anywhere else, one thing is clear: the harvest begins in late summer and continues into the fall. The abundance from one or two small fig trees is astonishing. Here’s what to do with fresh…

a lush garden thanks to plenty of mushroom compost

Mushroom Compost: A Complete Guide for Organic Gardeners

What is mushroom compost? This complete guide to mushroom compost will explain what this soil amendment is, what it does for your vegetable garden, and its many benefits. We’ve used mushroom compost in the past here at Seven Oaks Farm, the inspiration for Home Garden Joy. In the past, we purchased bags of it from…

How to Tell When Cantaloupe Is Ripe

When the opossums eat it, of course. One of the first questions I had this summer about my new patch of cantaloupe growing in the raised bed garden was, “How to tell when cantaloupe is ripe? How do you know it’s time to pick it??” Of course, I searched online for the answer. “It will…