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Ask The Experts: 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...

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

Ask The Experts: 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,...

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...

Victory Garden 2.0

Planting, Vegetables

Designing your own Victory Garden 2.0 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...

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....

Attract Pollinators with Container Gardening - National Garden Bureau

Attract Pollinators with Container Planters

Container Gardening, Pollinator Gardening

No yard? No problem! Container planters can help you play a part in attracting pollinators even if you don’t have a yard! In the United States one-third of all agricultural output depends on pollinators, we need pollinators and pollinators need us! Help the pollinators do their job by planting pollinator-attracting plants in your containers. Create...

Grillscaping Love Your Food, Love Your Space - National Garden Bureau

Grillscaping: Grow Food You Love in the Space You Enjoy

Foodscaping, Planning and Design, Vegetables

We’ve all heard the expression, “You are what you eat.” Nowadays we also want to know more about the sourcing and production processes used to grow the vegetables and fruits that we consume. Are they organically grown? How far did they travel to get to me? One way to know the answers and have control...

Urban Gardening Methods: Growing In Any Environment

Container Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Planting

When you live in a concrete jungle, it seems like it’s impossible to find space to create an actual edible jungle. It's time for Urban Gardening! We all have this mental image of a garden as an outdoor paradise, sequestered from the house and our day-to-day existence. But there are plenty of ways to work...

All Together Now!

Container Gardening, Foodscaping, Vegetables

When did vegetables and herbs become something to be segregated from flowers? So often you see a vegetable garden fenced off in a corner of the property and a flower garden near the house. It seems that at some point it was decided that vegetables are too ugly to be included in an ornamental garden....

Coleus – Adding Color to Your Garden

Container Gardening, Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Plants for Shade

Grown for its foliage, Coleus is one of the easiest and most diverse foliage in and out of the garden. Coleus can be used in garden beds, containers, and patio pots and then brought indoors for winter color! Coleus Care in the Garden: Coleus are quite tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions. They...