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?

I made my first batch of elderberry syrup from a kit purchased from my friend Beth, who owns and runs Long Ears Herbs, an herb farm and craft business ...

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Grow Fruit in Your Backyard

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

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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