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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
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 breeders working on more compact varieties, your choices for...
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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
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 garden outdoors. Remember, two very important steps in gardening are...
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Kids Gardening Made Easy with these top 10 tips - National Garden Bureau

Easy Kids Gardening Activities

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Kid's Gardening
Get Outside and Garden As we all face these unpredictable times, our friends at KidsGardening created and shared these ‘tried and true’ plant-based activities that are joyful for any age and don’t involve any screen time. The national nonprofit reaches close to half of a million educators, parents and volunteers with free online gardening educational...
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Victory Garden 2.0 - 10 steps to plan your own Victory Garden - National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0

Planting, Vegetables
Ten Steps for Planning Your Victory Garden 2.0 When the Victory Garden Manual was first written in 1943, it was pretty easy to come up with reasons to grow your own vegetables. It was wartime and food was scarce. The food that was available might not have been the freshest or healthiest. Statistics say that in 1943,...
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The Best Time To Prune Your Hydrangea - National Garden Bureau

Hydrangea Pruning on Your Mind?

Plant Care & Maintenance
When to prune your Hydrangeas so they bloom this season. The Best Time for Hydrangea Pruning It’s unavoidable. A few warm days, birds chirping, snow melting, and crocuses sprouting can only mean one thing. Time to get those pruners out and do a little trimming. When it comes to hydrangeas, however, incorrect pruning is the...
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Making the growing easy and successful with seed tapes - National Garden Bureau

Seed Tapes Makes The Growing Easy

Seeds and Seed Starting
Seed tapes are the easy, convenient, economical, and eco-friendly solution for planting your garden. Nothing, but nothing, beats the taste of delicious, homegrown, healthy, freshly picked veggies straight from your own garden. Written by David Arnold, Seed Developments With Spring just around the corner, now is the time to plan for a fabulous year-round harvest....
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5 Lovely Uses for Lavender - #yearofthelavender - National Garden Bureau

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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