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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When Do You Stop Feeding Hummingbirds?

When do you stop feeding hummingbirds? Usually in the fall when you start seeing fewer numbers at your feeder. Generally for me that’s a week or two before the first frost date for my gardening zone. But there’s another, less popular answer to the question, “When do you stop feeding hummingbirds?” That answer is: now….

a single strawberry hanging over the edge of a wooden raised bed

Growing Strawberry Plants

Growing strawberry plants is one of my favorite gardening adventures. Once they get growing, strawberry plants produce abundant strawberry fruit. Outwit the birds, and you’ve got your own personal fruit supply for several weeks, or you can make a strawberry jam recipe that tastes like a burst of summer. Growing Strawberry Plants To grow healthy…

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How to Start a Vegetable Garden from Scratch

If you are looking for information on how to start a vegetable garden from scratch, you may find yourself lost in a sea of advice. I’ll make it easy for your start a backyard vegetable garden by breaking down the steps into four simple categories: Location, Soil, Size, Timing. Where Should You Plant Your Vegetables?…

a browned overcooked coconut bar on a blue flowered plate

Recipe Fail – Coconut Bars

Each weekend, I dig out my favorite cookbook – the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 13th Edition. I flip through the pages, skimming the recipes, checking to see if I have the ingredients to make those that catch my eye. And then, I make the recipe, usually late Sunday afternoon after all the chores are done. It’s…