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Victory Garden 2.0 Soil Basics

Building Your Garden from the Ground Up: Basic Tips for Improving Garden Soil Quality You’re dreaming of spring, eager to grow a gorgeous garden filled with fresh food and beautiful blooms. But before you sow your first seed or order perennials from your favorite nursery, take the time to dig deep into your soil. Understanding...

Victory Garden 2.0 Fall Chores : How to divide your bearded irises - Year of the Iris - National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0: #Fallisforplanting (or Dividing) Your Bearded Irises

Flower Gardening, How-to

In this, the Year of the Iris, let’s talk a bit about a Victory Garden 2.0 fall gardening task that comes up every few years: dividing your bearded irises (Iris × germanica). This iris, often called German iris, produces large multicolored flowers in late spring or early summer that bear, on their slightly drooping sepals, a fuzzy “beard”,...

Victory Garden 2.0 Summer Maintenance

Plant Care & Maintenance

Summer Maintenance Tips for Your Victory Garden 2.0 “When the pandemic hit, I decided to plant a vegetable garden.” I’ve heard this from consultation clients and Plantrama listeners for the past three months, and my response is always the same. “Congratulations! You made a terrific choice.” I recognize that the stress of the COVID crisis...

Ask The Experts: Growing Watermelon in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, Planting

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,...

Growing Wildflowers in your Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Ask The Experts: Growing Wildflowers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Flower Gardening, How-to, Pollinator Gardening

15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Ask The Experts: Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Wildflowers are one of Mother Nature’s loveliest gifts and a perfect addition to your Victory Garden 2.0. Their changing panorama of colors, shapes, sizes, and heights provides delight throughout the seasons. Wildflowers can be used anywhere. In...

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...

10 tips for creating your own Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Pollinator Gardening

10 tips for Planting your Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0 Help the Pollinators with a Victory Garden 2.0 The passion and urgency that inspired the original Victory Gardens are needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized...

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...