Vegetable Garden

11 Mar

Vegetable Garden

Cinder blocks Vegetable Garden

• May 7, 2022
• By home-and-garden

By Connie Oswald Stofko Is it safe to use cinder blocks in a raised bed, or might chemicals from the concrete blocks leach out of the blocks to contaminate your soil and food plants you grow there? Can you use pressure treated lumber? Can you grow food plants in th...

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17 Jan

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French Vegetable Garden Design

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

In the French kitchen garden or potager, gardeners have intermingled vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs since medieval times. For the French, the potager has always been the country counterpart of the grand chateaux parterres. Potagers are more popular than eve...

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30 Dec

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Backyard Vegetable Garden Design Ideas

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Tame the Great Outdoors in your backyard by dressing up the space with a garden. Backyard gardens give ample opportunity for self-expression, since they’re typically somewhat private and hidden. If you’re dealing with wide open spaces out back, a garden can help so...

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21 Dec

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Best Insecticide for Vegetable Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Even in the best-managed vegetable gardens-ones with soil rich in compost, and a diversity of plants to encourage natural predators-certain pests will occasionally get out of hand. There is a nugget of truth in the old maxim that insects are most likely to gang up ...

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18 Dec

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Garden Vegetable Soup

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

With our miserable bone-chilling weather, I had a taste for a good hearty quick soup. However, when I went to the local grocery store (why are they all called ?supermarkets?? how come there are no averagemarkets, goodmarkets, or alsoranmarkets?} to purchase the veg...

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21 Nov

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Best Vegetable Garden Design

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

If you want, the Planner will even send you twice-monthly reminders about what crops to sow and plant from your plans. Garden Bed Design Experiment with bed designs and plant placement. If your garden beds are already in place, simply set up your garden's template ...

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19 Oct

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Garden Design Vegetable Patch

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Gardening with children provides numerous opportunities for hands-on learning, inquiry, observation, and experimentation. Gardening also helps children build an understanding of and respect for nature and our environment. When children participate in growing edible...

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04 Oct

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Beautiful Vegetable Garden Design

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

When it comes to vegetable gardening, there are numerous tips and other vegetable garden design ideas that can make the task an easier one and the vegetable garden a more eye appealing space. As no one garden is the same, not all ideas for designing a vegetable gar...

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25 Sep

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Designing a Vegetable Garden with raised beds

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Raised bed gardens, tiny plots, container gardening, and other techniques help you grow more in less space. Here are 5 tips to make your harvest bountiful—plus, a garden plot design. 1. Raise Your Beds Forget about growing plants in single file in long, parallel ro...

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15 Jul

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Home Vegetable Garden Design

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Growing your own food can be a very rewarding experience. When well planned, a home vegetable garden can produce fresh healthy food many months of the year. Whether you are looking to start simple with some lettuce and tomatoes for salads or you want a gourmet gard...

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15 Jun

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Container Vegetable Gardening

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Want to have more control over growing conditions and enjoy higher yields with a lot less work? Garden in containers. Container gardening is an easy way to garden, especially when you lack yard space. Plant Pots: The Bigger, the Better Large plants need lots of sp...

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14 Mar

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Cottage Vegetable Garden Design

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Why think about your vegetable garden design before planting? Thinking you and your family’s desires, needs, and goals before planting is the single biggest thing you can do to have a garden that won’t become a burden. I have heard SO many people tell me that they ...

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22 Jan

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Herb and Vegetable Garden Designs

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Edible landscaping is simply a way of using veggies, herbs and flowers in the garden that will perform multiple functions, such as for food, flavor and ornamental appearance. Let’s take a look at how to mix edible plants in the garden. Veggies, Herbs and Flowers Th...

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17 Dec

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Backyard Vegetable Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Backyard Vegetable Garden What to Plant: getting the best return on effort Although you will have your own ideas and preferences about what vegetables to grow, this list is developed for people with limited space for a backyard vegetable garden, with a focus on cro...

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30 Oct

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Design for Vegetable Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

‘Keep the faith and keep on digging, knowing that you will eventually succeed.’ Photograph: Lucy Chamberlain Fancy building the vegetable garden of your dreams from a weed-strewn wasteland? Lucy Chamberlain shares her sage advice For culinary gardeners, creating yo...

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12 Oct

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Fertilizing Vegetable Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

As garden vegetables grow, they undergo an intensive process that strips nutrients from the soil. Adding fertilizer keeps soil in optimum shape to feed your garden. Choosing the right type of fertilizer and adding the right amount depends on the soil and the plants...

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31 Aug

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Designing Drip Irrigation system Vegetable Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Soaker hoses’ slow, steady drip ensures that almost no water is lost to surface runoff or evaporation—all of that water goes to your plants. It also means very few nutrients leach down beyond the reach of plant roots. Furthermore, since soaker hoses deliver water d...

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