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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

Grow Your Own Food

Home Grown Garlic: How to Grow Garlic

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How to Harvest Garlic

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How to Grow Cucumbers: A Complete Guide

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Growing catnip? We rescue cats here at Seven Oaks Farm. All of these cats can only mean one thing: growing catnip.  Growing catnip is easy and it ...

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Grow Fruit in Your Backyard

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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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Sunscald on Tomatoes: What It Is and How to Prevent It

If you’ve ever walked out to your garden and spotted tomatoes with pale, blistered patches, you might be dealing with a common but frustrating issue: sunscald. It’s not a disease, and it’s not caused by pests. It’s a physiological disorder that stems from too much sun and heat, especially when fruits are suddenly exposed. What…

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Herbal Profile: Growing Calendula

Growing calendula is easy! The seeds germinate quickly, and calendula can be grown in pots, containers, or garden beds. Best of all, many parts of this beautiful flower are useful. The petals are edible, and the flowers are used to create many herbal skincare products. Learn more about calendula flowers and how you can grow…

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Battling Anthracnose: A Cucumber Grower’s Guide to a Sneaky Fungal Foe

If you’ve ever stepped into your garden and noticed strange brown spots or sunken blemishes on your cucumbers, you might be facing a common but troublesome fungal disease known as anthracnose. Caused by Colletotrichum orbiculare, anthracnose thrives in warm, humid conditions and can quickly spread across your crop if not addressed early. This year in…

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How to Grow Cucumbers: A Complete Guide

Learn how to grow cucumbers in this complete guide. I’ve grown cucumbers my entire life, and I still marvel at the prices of them at the supermarket. I can only imagine that we’re all paying for the transportation, for cucumbers are some of the easiest vegetables to grow. In fact, you may find yourself muttering,…

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