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Featured Article:  How to Grow Vegetables

A vegetable garden can be the perfect addition to your landscape. When you grow produce with vegetables like beans, tomatoes, and lettuce in your vegetable garden, you can ensure healthful produce. Learn to grow vegetables. See more »

10 Hardest Vegetables to Grow and Maintain

10 Hardest Vegetables to Grow and Maintain

Now, more and more produce eaters are looking for produce grown even closer to home -- their own backyards. But it may not be as easy as planting the seed and watching it grow.

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Assessing Your Climate for Starting a Vegetable Garden

Assessing Your Climate for Starting a Vegetable Garden

Vegetable gardening success depends on choosing the right plants for your climate. Some plants require long, hot days, while others thrive in cool weather. Learn how to assess your climate to start a vegetable garden.

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Caring for a Vegetable Garden

Caring for a Vegetable Garden

Successful vegetable gardens need to be weeded, watered, fertilized, and maintained all through the growing season to ensure a bountiful crop. Learn everything you need to know about caring for a vegetable garden.

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Caring for Vegetable Seedlings

Caring for Vegetable Seedlings

Caring for vegetable seedlings indoors can lengthen your garden's growing season, and it gives you a wider variety of plants to choose from. Learn about caring for vegetable seedlings indoors.

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Composting for a Vegetable Garden

Composting for a Vegetable Garden

A compost pile is a great resource for your vegetable garden. It provides nutrient-rich soil, and it helps clear away some of your kitchen waste. Learn all about maintaining a compost pile.

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Designing a Vegetable Garden

Designing a Vegetable Garden

Plotting out your vegetable garden before you start planting can help ensure a successful harvest. Graph paper can assist when you're drawing out your plot plan. Learn about designing a vegetable garden.

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Direct Seeding in the Vegetable Garden

Direct Seeding in the Vegetable Garden

Direct seeding is an easy and cost-effective way to get your vegetable garden started, if you live in a climate that will allow it. Learn about direct seeding your vegetable garden.

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Guide to Vegetable Garden Pests

Guide to Vegetable Garden Pests

Vegetable gardens are under constant threat from diseases and insect infestations. You can use these lists to diagnose and treat your garden's ailments. Learn all about vegetable garden pests and diseases.

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Herb Gardens

Herb Gardens

An herb garden is a great addition to any kitchen garden. Or you can grow herbs in containers if your space is limited. Learn all about planting and caring for an herb garden.

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Herb Growing Tips

Herb Growing Tips

Want to enhance your garden and your cooking? Check out herbs. This article will help you plan to grow herbs, work with herbs that double as perennials, and offer tips for enhancing your herb garden.

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How to Grow an Herb Garden

How to Grow an Herb Garden

Sooner or later, most of us decide to try our hand at growing a few favorite herbs. Herbs are survive in all kinds of conditions. Learn how to design and plant an herb garden.

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How to Grow Vegetables

How to Grow Vegetables

A vegetable garden can be the perfect addition to your landscape. When you grow produce with vegetables like beans, tomatoes, and lettuce in your vegetable garden, you can ensure healthful produce. Learn to grow vegetables.

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How to Start a Vegetable Garden

How to Start a Vegetable Garden

When starting a vegetable garden, you need to consider what kinds of plants you want to grow, and then which varieties will work best for you. Learn all about starting a vegetable garden.

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Organic Pest Control for a Vegetable Garden

Organic Pest Control for a Vegetable Garden

Many vegetable gardeners prefer to use non-chemical means to keep pests away. Simple steps like disease-resistant seeds and crop rotation can help keep your garden healthy. Learn about organic pest control for your vegetable garden.

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Planting a Vegetable Garden

Planting a Vegetable Garden

Planting a vegetable garden at home is great. Vegetable gardens offer health benefits and save money. Learn crop selection, proper seeding and transplanting techniques, and the conditions that will make your garden thrive.

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Preparing a Vegetable Garden for Winter

Preparing a Vegetable Garden for Winter

To prepare a vegetable garden for winter, you'll want to do a great cleanup job in the fall. This garden care will make it easier to start the new growing season in the spring.

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Staking Vegetables

Staking Vegetables

Vegetable plants sometimes need stakes, cages, or trellis systems to ensure healthy growth and a good crop. Tomato plants in particular need support systems to thrive. Learn all about staking vegetable plants.

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Starting a Vegetable Garden

Starting a Vegetable Garden

Successful vegetable gardens start with careful vegetable selection, good soil preparation, and great vegetable plot placement for a bountiful harvest. Learn everything you need to know about starting a vegetable garden.

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Starting New Vegetable Plants from Parts

Starting New Vegetable Plants from Parts

Some vegetable plants can be grown from parts of other plants, such as divisions, cuttings, tubers, or suckers. Irish potatoes, onions, and garlic can be grown using these methods. Learn about growing vegetable plants from parts.

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Transplanting Vegetable Seeds from Indoors

Transplanting Vegetable Seeds from Indoors

Transplanting vegetable plants that you've started as seeds indoors can be a great way to jumpstart your garden, particularly when you're growing tender vegetable plants. Learn all about transplanting vegetable seeds.

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