Home Garden Joy

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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Grow Your Own Food

Interested in Herbs?

Interested in learning how to grow stevia? It's an easy to grow herb for the home garden. ...

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Grow Fruit in Your Backyard

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

What caused deformed strawberries? I love strawberry season and devote an entire raised garden bed to our strawberry crop. Most were fine this year, but in one section of the bed, I picked several mutant berries. What caused this? Radiation? Aliens? Alas, the answer is simpler than that, but the intriguing forms still hint at…

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My Raised Bed Vegetable Garden

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