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Regenerative Gardening 101
Some people have viewed gardening as an act of taking, extracting vegetables, herbs and flowers from the soil to benefit humankind. However, regenerative gardening is shifting this idea toward giving …
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5 Vegetable Garden Planner Apps Compared
Why does it always seem like you spend all winter waiting, wishing, and hoping for spring, then when it arrives, your brain goes into panic mode, and suddenly you have …
How to Stop Vegetable Diseases from Invading Your Garden
Vegetable gardening can bring a roller coaster of emotions. Watching your plants grow from seed or seedlings can be thrilling, especially when it comes time to harvest your crops. Not …
How to Kill Aphids on Tomato Plants with Stuff from Your Pantry
As much as I love the idea of microbiomes and letting nature do its thing, when it comes to finding aphids on tomato plants in my garden, I tend to …
20 Gardening Myths Busted
Sometimes, gardening advice gets passed around like gossip. It could be gardening tips from your grandfather on your mother’s side or a neighbor’s anecdotal vegetable garden evidence. It’s easy to …
Introducing the 2025 Fall Food Garden Planning Calendar Kit
Fall gardening opens up incredible possibilities that many gardeners never explore. While others are putting their gardens to bed, you can be harvesting crisp lettuce, sweet carrots, and robust kale …
The Biggest Basil and Tomato Companion Planting Benefits
If time machines were a thing, you could go back to a classic 1972 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercial, where in the commercial, a man trips and falls, accidentally dipping …
Tomato Hornworms: Identification, Control, and Their Ecological Role
I'll never forget that morning, my daughter came running in from outside, yelling that I needed to come look at the tomatoes, which I'd neglected for the past week. What …
Introducing the Tomato Gardening Made Easy Special Issue
Nothing beats the satisfaction of biting into a sun-warmed tomato fresh from your own garden–that perfect balance of sweetness and acidity that store-bought varieties simply can’t match. Our Tomato Gardening …
Watering A to Z: Everything You Need to Know About Watering Your Garden
There's a lot to say about watering. And there is definitely enough to put it into a "Watering A to Z" list. I will tell you, though, this was challenging. …
