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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herbal medicine

Herbal medicine and Christianity - can the two coexist? Can you be a Christian and practice herbalism? Why do people think you cannot practice ...

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Grow Fruit in Your Backyard

cantaloupe growing in the garden

Growing cantaloupe this year brought with it new joys and challenges. I’ve grown cantaloupe in New York in pots on a deck and in Virginia using the same method. This year, I decided on growing cantaloupe in the big raised bed in the vegetable garden. I thought that was plenty of space for the six…

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My Raised Bed Vegetable Garden

a yellow garden shed and a raised bed vegetable garden