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5 Reasons to Grow Broccoli in Your Garden

Plant Care & Maintenance, Planting, Planting Tips, Recipes, Vegetables

…Plus, How to Grow, Harvest, and Cook It, Too. Green Comet Broccoli Jacaranda Broccoli Purple Sprouting Broccoli Did you know that a vegetable can be both a superfood—and a scandal? Poor broccoli found itself embroiled in a presidential controversy when former President George H. W. Bush reportedly banned it from Air Force One, due to...

Quick and Easy Summer Edible Containers, 1-2-3!

Container Gardening, Vegetables

If you're craving homegrown goodies but lack garden space, you'll find fabulous new vegetable introductions that work wonderfully in your edible containers. While many tomatoes can grow in pots, you'll need a large, 5-gallon container to grow traditional varieties. However, with advances in breeding, new, compact varieties make the perfect addition to container gardens, even...

Victory Garden 2.0 #Fallisforplanting Vegetables

Foodscaping, Planting Tips, Vegetables

Why Continue Your Victory Garden 2.0 into the Fall ... Hopefully, you are now harvesting those delicious tomatoes, peppers, and summer squash from your Victory Garden 2.0. What a great and satisfying feeling! As the cool autumn season begins its descent, you may think that the gardening season is over until next summer. But not...

Start a Foodscape Revolution Neighborhood this Fall - National Garden Bureau

Start a Foodscape Revolution This Fall!

Foodscaping, Vegetables

The Foodscape Revolution Neighborhood Edition This fall get inspired to start a foodscape revolution of your own! The idea is simple, just plant a few of your favorite veggies right in your landscape. Fill up the open space and cultivate FOOD! While you are at it, inspire your neighbors to do the same and suddenly...

Ask An Expert about Growing Peppers for your Victory Garden 2.0

Ask The Experts: Growing Peppers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, Vegetables

15 Questions Answered about Growing Peppers in Your Garden 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...

Ask An Expert: Growing Tomatoes in Your Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Ask The Experts: 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...

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...

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 - 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...

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...