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Video: Composting Made Easy
4 commentsJodie Colon, Compost Educator at Bronx Green-Up, shows you how to mix dead, dry leaves and stems, fresh moist green plant materials, and food scraps in a compost heap.
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Video: How to Plant Tomatoes
Tomatoes like to be planted very deeply. Deep planting helps to ensure that your plants will grow to be healthy and robust.If your plant came in a peat pot, make sure you remove all of the pot before...
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Video: Getting Started in Worm Composting
1 commentHere's how to turn your kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich compost.
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Home-Grown Potatoes!
4 commentsMy fellow gardeners we are looking March square in the eye and I, for one, am getting itchy.
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Grow Your Vegetables Vertically
3 commentsIt's easy to forget about some prime growing real estate that's right before your eyes. We gardeners are usually busy looking at the horizon for growing room.
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Take Your Plants for a Ride
The Rotary Garden is an innovative new product that’s perfect for growing edibles in small spaces. Wheels make the garden portable so it can be moved to where ever the sun shines brightest.
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An Indoor Herb Garden Tides Us Over Until Spring
2 commentsRecord snowfall in the mid-Atlantic this winter has kept us inside, so why not sow some seeds indoors?
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How Much Space Do You Need For a Vegetable Garden?
Not much. One thing is for sure, you absolutely do not need what is referred to as "land" to plant a vegetable garden. Not even close.
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Video: Victory Garden (1942 edition)
3 commentsVintage footage alert: Watch the Holder family plant their quarter-acre Victory Garden in Maryland and find out what a Victory Garden meant in 1942.
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Video: Aquaponics
2 commentsYes, you can grow vegetables in water. In aquaponics, the plants are fertilized by fish. Rob Torcellini's greenhouse, assembled from a kit, is home to fish and plants in an interconnected system cobbled together from pipes, pumps, and tanks. Take a video tour, and learn more about aquaponics.
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Video: How to Transplant Seedlings
2 commentsThis video will show you how to transplant your young seedlings to the garden or larger containers. "Handel" with care, for best results.
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Grow this Frittata...and more
1 comment“Grocery Gardening,” Jean Ann Van Krevelen’s newest book, is all about planting, preparing and preserving fresh food. It’s perfect for cooks who want to be better gardeners or gardeners who want to be better cooks—and everyone in between.
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Savory for Winter Dishes
2 commentsI’ve been discussing the robust herbs for warming winter dishes in my blogs for January and part of February and Savory is my last, but not least entry. I believe that savory is an underused...
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What is a Food Desert?
2 commentsIt may have never have crossed your mind that some cities don't have grocery stores. They have "convenience stores" - and that's not the same thing at all.
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Rabbit Manure in the Garden
5 commentsAnyone who comes within a few yards of my garden is forced to discuss rabbit poop and its many gardening benefits - whether they want to or not. I'm determined to spread the bunny-gospel.
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Canned Vegetable Seeds a Thrifty Idea
1 commentOne-gallon cans of jumbo-sized packets of garden seeds can be a thrifty alternative for home gardeners who plant large gardens. Each large can contains 16 different veggie favorites and gives new meaning to “canned vegetables.”
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Garden Planning for Cooks and Foodies
1 commentPlanning your garden around a meal or style of cooking can give you a season full of perfect and affordable ingredients.
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Video: How to Grow Potatoes in Containers
6 commentsWhat's not to love about potatoes? They're tasty, require little maintenance to grow, and even produce pretty flowers. If you have the right container, you don't even need to plant them in the ground. Check out this video on growing potatoes in the most unlikely of places: a kitchen garbage can.
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Video: How to Start Seeds
10 commentsThis video will show you how to start plants from seeds successfully. Site member Mike Taylor used it to grow several thousand plants lasts year. Could it be that seedlings like Vivaldi?
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How to Grow Cilantro and Coriander
6 commentsCilantro (Chinese parsley) may resemble its namesake, but it's not the wall flower that parsley is in the garden.
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Our contributing editors are accomplished gardeners, passionate about discovering and sharing new ideas and practical techniques.
Danielle Sherry
Specialty: Small scale veg gardening
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Jodi Torpey
Specialty: Organic Gardening
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Ruth Dobsevage
Specialty: Simple gardening
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