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Victory Garden 2.0 - 10 steps in Planting Your garden - National Garden Bureau

Planting Outdoors Victory Garden 2.0

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...

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...

Cultivate Something Good - Garden - National Garden Bureau

Cultivate Something Good – Your Garden and Your Well-Being

Gardening as Therapy

Your yoga classes, meetings, and concerts are canceled. The kids are out of school and you’re being encouraged to stay home. In this time of #Covid-19, here are a few suggestions to cultivate something good. Start some seeds. Nothing is more life-affirming than checking each morning to see if something spouted. Plan a vegetable garden....

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....

The Top 10 Gardening Guidelines to Live By... National Garden Bureau

10 Adaptive Gardening Rules To Live By…

Gardening as Therapy

What is Adaptive Gardening? Adaptive gardening offers a myriad of ways for gardeners of all ages with a limited range of motion, the wheelchair bound, or anyone wanting to reduce stress on their joints, to identify what works for them in their garden according to their personal physical realities. My approach will help you think...

Kids, Gardens & Games

Kid's Gardening

Looking for some late summer projects and garden games for kids that are close to home and benefit the mind, body, and spirit? These garden games and projects offer children the opportunity to explore the natural world in a fun and informal setting. There are many lessons we can learn from flowers about patience, thoughtfulness...

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...

Leaf Stack Challenge - National Garden Bureau

The Leaf Stack Challenge

How-to

You’ve undoubtedly heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge, and if you’re a parent you might also have read about the Cheerios Challenge. Be it for a good cause such as raising money for ALS research, or a silly trick started by a bored dad, such posts call us to be playful and join in on...

Grow Your Own Scent Garden

Flower Gardening, Planting

Add an extra dimension and bring new delight to your garden by adding scented flowers. Fragrant flowers add to the ambiance of your garden. Smell is the sense most closely linked with memory, so start creating new memories by adding a few fragrant blooms this year. Roses For All Rose Stiletto Hybrid Tea Rose Brindabella...