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?

basil seedlings in a tray with a plant marker

Growing basil from seed is an easy way to add this herb to your garden. Basil (Ocimum basilicum) is a tender annual. It is very sensitive to ...

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Grow Fruit in Your Backyard

a closeup of watermelon

Growing watermelon in the home garden is not for the faint of heart. I have plenty of room, and it still threatened to take over the garden. You will either need to leave a lot of room for the sprawling vines or look for varieties specifically marked for containers. Growing it on a trellis is…

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My Raised Bed Vegetable Garden

water droplets in sunbeams over a raised bed vegetable garden