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Growing Beets
BEET Beta vulgaris The Common Beet, sometimes termed the Red Beet, is a half-hardy biennial plant and...
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Growing Beans
Bean.–Every garden grows beans of one kind or another. Under this general name, many kinds of plants are cultivated....
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Growing Asparagus
ASPARAGUS Asparagus officinalis Asparagus is a hardy perennial plant. It rises to the height of five feet and up, with a...
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Growing Artichokes
Artichoke.–The artichoke of literature is a tall, coarse perennial of the thistle tribe, producing edible flower-heads....
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How to Coax Fresh Vegetables From the Garden All Winter Long
Autumn typically signals the end of home grown vegetables from the garden, but with a little ingenuity you can harvest garden...
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Home Gardening
Over the last few years home gardening has become an increasingly popular past-time and hobby. In fact, studies show that...
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What Is Composting?
What is Composting? Composting is recycling your kitchen waste and lawn trimmings and turning them into a valuable...
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Growing Spinach
Growing spinach is very easy and something we plant every year at The Home Garden. It matures in about a month and we can...
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Growing Dill
Dill is one of my favorite herbs that we plant at The Home Garden. We use it in salads, on fish, in casseroles, soups and...
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Tomatoes- The Most Popular Vegetable in Home Gardens
This year at The Home Garden we planted 16 tomato plants, 8 Roma, 4 Big Boys and 4 Early Girls. Growing tomatoes is one...
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Growing Asparagus In The Home Garden
By The Home Garden Asparagus can be traced back as far as 200 B.C. Roman emperors would keep a special fleet just to fetch...
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Heirloom Tomatoes and Five Different Tomato Varieties
At The Home Garden our first garden was just tomatoes. They were very easy to grow and take care of even though we didn’t...
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Planting Cool Weather Plants
Finally it’s warm enough at The Home Garden to start planting our garden. Today we planted most of the cool weather vegetables,...
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6 Helpfull Tips on Planting Trees
Colorado Blue Spruce Last November we purchased five pine trees for my sons wedding, two white pines, two tannenbaum pines...
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Growing Grape Tomatoes
Every year at The Home Garden we plant grape tomatoes. They are smaller and sweeter than cherry tomatoes. Their skins are...
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Springtime
Fall has always been my favorite time of year, work slows done a little and the temperature starts to cool down and I love...
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Vegetable and Herb Container Gardening in 5 Easy Steps
Spring is in the air at The Home Garden and very soon we can start our vegetable and herb container gardens. Here are 5...
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The Home Garden- April
Wow its finally spring, we have had snow on the ground since December. I hoped to be in my garden in March but the snow...
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The Home Garden 2010
Well its February 8 at The Home Garden and I figured it’s time to start planning our organic vegetable garden for 2010....



