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?

a blue borage herb flower

Plant Profile: Borage (Borago officinalis) Botanical Name: Borago officinalis Light Requirement:  Borage thrives in full sunlight but can ...

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Grow Fruit in Your Backyard

Jonathan apples on the tree in our orchard

We didn’t set out to grow Jonathan apples, but this is the variety that thrives in our zone 7B garden. We purchased seedlings from the Arbor Day Society and planted our home orchard in December 2007. Today, we have many fruit trees, including our beloved Jonathans that are my new favorite apple. Here’s how to…

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