Looking to grow your first vegetable garden this year? Whether you are brand new to vegetable gardening or a seasoned veteran, there are a few tried and true tips that go a long way in keeping gardening both fun and productive. Contrary to popular belief, growing a productive vegetable garden doesn’t mean having to buy …

Growing vegetables and flowers together in your garden adds more than just color and beauty. It’s also a secret weapon in controlling pests and disease. And, even more, it can lead to a bigger and better harvest! Many annual flowers have long been known to have beneficial qualities for vegetable plants. For starters, some are …

Nothing can add a touch of beauty to a garden setting like a classic garden bench. Especially when it can easily be created with simple, inexpensive 2 x 4’s! A garden bench is the perfect addition to the landscape for so many reasons. By its very nature, it beckons all who walk among the plants …

One of the biggest secrets to growing big, healthy, and productive tomatoes is knowing how and when to fertilize your plants. Tomato plants are heavy feeders from the soil. And unfortunately, no matter how rich and fertile your soil might be, they can quickly deplete it’s nutrients. That is why fertilizing plays a vital role …

Make this the year you grow purple green beans in your garden to jazz up your garden and taste buds with a little flair. Purple green beans are definitely a conversation piece in the garden! Maturing in just a little over 50 days, plants quickly produce a delicious bush bean with a deep purple color. …

It’s not often you can grow a nutritious and tasty vegetable and a great household sponge all at the same time, but that is exactly what you can do when you grow Luffa gourds! The luffa plant is a member of the gourd family. The same family that includes squash, zucchini, melons and cucumbers as …

You might be surprised just how easy and inexpensive it is to start and grow vegetable and flower plants from seed – all by using simple fluorescent shop lights! Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t require fancy or expensive equipment to start seeds indoors. Especially when it comes to needing ultra expensive grow lights. They …

With a few simple growing secrets, you can create an overflowing harvest of fresh, delicious and nutritious zucchini! A zucchini plant is one of the most productive vegetables around. Under ideal growing conditions, a single plant can produce 5 to 10 pounds of produce. And, you will be hard pressed to find a more healthy …

Nothing will spice up your flowerbeds more than growing a few new unique annual flowers this year. Flowers with blooms and foliage that stand out from the usual, all-too-common bedding plants grown year after year in the same space and place. After all, if variety is the spice of life, growing a few new flowers …

When it comes to adding super nutritious fruit to your landscape, it’s hard to beat the benefits of growing a few elderberry bushes. For many years, elderberries were more considered more “wild” than domesticated. They were most often found growing along ditches and fence rows. And for those that loved them, it was an annual …