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Ask An Expert: Growing Watermelon in Your Victory Garden 2.0

15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Watermelon Yes, You Can! Growing Watermelon in your Victory Garden 2.0 During the summer, watermelon is the favorite “must-have" way to beat the summer heat. Take your Victory Garden 2.0 up a notch by enjoying the fun and excitement of growing watermelon. Yum! You won't believe what...

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15 questions answered about growing strawberries in your Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Ask An Expert: Growing Strawberries in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, Planting

15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Strawberries Growing Strawberries in your Victory Garden 2.0 You've tackled tomatoes, peppers, and wildflowers, so now what should you add to your Victory Garden 2.0? Strawberries! Strawberries are a fun addition that can easily be grown in gardens, containers, and window boxes! Think strawberry shortcake, strawberry pie,...

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Growing Wildflowers in your Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Ask An Expert: Growing Wildflowers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Flower Gardening, How-to, Pollinator Gardening

15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Ask An Expert: Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Wildflowers are one of Mother Nature’s loveliest gifts and a perfect addition to your Victory Garden 2.0. Their changing panorama of colors, shapes, sizes, and heights provides delight throughout the seasons. Wildflowers can be used anywhere. In...

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Ask An Expert about Growing Peppers for your Victory Garden 2.0

Ask An Expert: Growing Peppers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, Vegetables

Successfully Growing Peppers in Your Victory Gardens 2.0 With so many different varieties, shapes, sizes, colors, and degrees of hotness, you can imagine why peppers are a very popular and desired vegetable to add to any Victory Garden 2.0. Did you know the pepper is a nutritional powerhouse? A serving of the most popular type...

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Ask An Expert: Growing Tomatoes in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, Vegetables

A Victory Garden 2.0 wouldn't be complete without a few tomato plants. Growing tomatoes is one of the most popular vegetables grown in any garden and it's easy to see why. Nothing tastes as good as a tomato fresh from the garden! For a successful tomato season, we asked our NGB breeder members to answer...

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10 tips for creating your own Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Pollinator Gardening

10 tips for Planting your Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0 Help the Pollinators with a Victory Garden 2.0 The passion and urgency that inspired the original Victory Gardens are needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized...

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5 tips on Building Your Own Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Building A Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed

Garden Planning & Design, How-to

5 tips for building your own Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed Today’s gardeners have more options for where and how to start their gardens than the original Victory Gardeners. Of course, in-ground is always an option, as are container gardens for your Victory Garden 2.0. Raised beds are...

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5 Lovely Uses for Lavender

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to

Easy Lavender Gifts You Can Make Yourself! As gardeners, we love to share a little bit of our garden with friends and loved ones by using our garden's bountiful goodness. It can be as simple as an aromatic bag of potpourri or a jar of jam made with homegrown berries. No matter what we grow...

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Gardening Books…The Perfect Gift

Gardening Books, How-to, Planting

What better gift for a gardener than gardening books? Gardening books in the winter reminds us that spring will be here soon, so we need to get ready! Whether a master gardener or a novice, there's always something new to learn from these great selections. Herbs...a Must in Every Garden! Herbs are an easy, fun...

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How to Store Your Dahlias for Winter

How-to, Plant Care & Maintenance

Continue to celebrate the Year of the Dahlia with these easy tips from National Garden Bureau member American Meadows on how to dig and store your dahlias tubers. Native to Mexico, dahlias won't survive freezing temperatures that many North American gardens experience. Digging and storing dahlias for the winter is extremely easy and simple if...

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Ask An Expert: Growing Watermelon in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Ask An Expert: Growing Strawberries in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Ask An Expert: Growing Wildflowers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Ask An Expert: Growing Peppers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Ask An Expert: Growing Tomatoes in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Building A Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed

5 Lovely Uses for Lavender

Gardening Books…The Perfect Gift

How to Store Your Dahlias for Winter

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