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

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swallowtail caterpillar on dill

Growing dill herb is easy. It can be used fresh, used in pickle recipes, and dried for later use. I love to grow it for my spice rack but also to feed ...

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Grow Fruit in Your Backyard

brown figs on the tree

Growing fig trees in Virginia was a goal of mine. Ever since I tasted my first fresh figs, I’ve wanted my own fig plants. Here’s what I chose to add to my Virginia, zone 6B garden. Growing Fig Plants Fig plants (Ficus) are surprisingly easy to grow in the backyard as long as you meet…

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