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Cover Crops - How to Rebuild Healthy Soil for Next Year’s Garden with Cover Crops | National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0: Soil Rejuvenation

Planting Tips
Putting Your Garden to Bed: How to Rebuild Healthy Soil for Next Year’s Garden with Cover Crops Learn how to rejuvenate and replenish your soil’s fertility and structure at the end of the growing season with cover crops. With the first chill of fall, many gardeners sigh with relief.  Sweltering summer days filled with watering,...
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Bee-Friendly Shrubs & Perennials for your Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Bee-Friendly Plants Create a Perfect Pollinator Garden

Perennials, Planting Tips, Pollinator Gardening
Adding bee-friendly shrubs and perennials to your garden. Bee-friendly and Butterfly-friendly plants continue to pique the interest of gardeners... whether they’re edible growers hoping to lure pollinators to boost the veggie harvest, ornamental gardeners who adore the interest butterflies and bees provide to the landscape or naturalists who wish to help feed and protect bees...
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Victory Garden 2.0 - 10 tips for container gardens - National Garden Bureau

Plant a Container Victory Garden 2.0

Container Gardening, Planting Tips
Ten tips for planting a container Victory Garden 2.0 Grow a Container Victory Garden? Yes, You Can! James H. Burdett did not address container growing in The Victory Garden Manual, but times were different in 1943. Today, growing edibles in containers is probably one of the fastest emerging trends we are seeing.  Plus, with vegetable...
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Victory Garden 2.0 - 10 steps in Planting Your garden - National Garden Bureau

Planting Outdoors Victory Garden 2.0

Planting Tips, Vegetables
Ten tips for planting your own Victory Garden 2.0 outdoors Congratulations on your decision to start your own Victory Garden 2.0! Now it's time for planting your garden outdoors!  In our last blog, we talked about how to plan your garden, including starting from seed. Now it's time to think about or begin, planting your...
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Grow Your Own Grains - National Garden Bureau

Gardening with Grains

Foodscaping, Planting Tips
#CrazyGrainLady A few years ago, I dubbed myself the #CrazyGrainLady. Though I had very little experience growing traditional agricultural crops, I was fascinated by the idea of incorporating grains into my suburban foodscape. Now, a few seasons later my novel approach has turned into a year-round obsession. In my new book, Gardening with Grains, you...
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12 plants for a fall harvest - National Garden Bureau #gardeningtips

Planting Now for a Fall Harvest!

Foodscaping, Planting Tips, Vegetables
Why Fall Plant... As you harvest your tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, you might think your garden is winding down. But wait, there's more! You can start your planting now and reap a fall harvest all through the cool autumn season. Fall planting not only extends your garden season but also brings on those delicious crops that...
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