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Vegetable Gardening

 
You can save money with a well-planned vegetable garden. Grow what you eat, keep your costs down and share the load and the bounty with friends and neighbors. Will a Vegetable Garden Really Save You Money?

Will a Vegetable Garden Really Save You Money?

- 1 year ago

Helpful tips to help you grow a garden that will save you money

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Nothing is more disappointing than a failed vegetable garden. And nothing is more important to a vegetable garden than good soil. Organic material, and lots of it, is the best thing you can do to create a fertile bed for your veggies to grow in. New garden beds do best if compost, grass clippings, leaves, rotted manure and other organic materials are worked deep into the ground. Many how-to gardening articles recommend turning the soil to a depth of one foot and adding fertilizers to the soil. W

Growing Garden Soil

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Healthy garden soil is essential for a successful vegetable garden.

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Every garden needs bugs - those beneficial insects that prey on garden pests and pollinate the plants. These bugs need the right habitat to thrive and do their jobs. Gardens that have pest problems do not have enough beneficial insects. Ladybugs, lacewings, tachinid flies, parastic wasps and other beneficial insects are attracted to flowers. Having a variety of flowers in the garden is important. Alyssum attracts bugs that eat cutworms. Marigolds are helpful in repelling ants and aphids, and he

Bring on the Good Bugs

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Attracting beneficial insects to your garden will help keep everything in balance.

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I am what many would call an urban micro-farmer. That means I don't have a lot of space to grow. Corn fields are out. Small gardens throughout the yard is what I can do. Companion gardening is the best way I have found to get the most out of the space I do have. Companion planting places plants that help each other in close proximity in the garden. The companions may help improve flavor, bring in beneficial insects or help each other grow. Everything in the companion garden is there for a purpos

A Sweet Little Companion Garden

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A small area in the yard is the perfect place for a beautiful companion garden.

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2011: The Year of the Edible Landscape

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Ideas for your edible landscape include colorful lettuce and strawberry borders.

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Fun Foods to Grow in the Garden: Romanesco Broccoli

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This is not your typical broccoli, but it looks lovely in an edible landscape.

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How to Choose Vegetable Seeds The difference between open pollinated, heirloom and hybrid seeds for use in the vegetable garden. http://quazen.com/shopping/home-and-garden/how-to-...

How to Choose Vegetable Seeds

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The difference between open pollinated, heirloom and hybrid seeds for use in the vegetable garden.

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Vegetable gardeners grow more food than they can eat. Freezing garden fresh produce helps you get the most of your garden. It reduces waste and helps reduce your food costs. The proper way to freeze most fruits and vegetables is to blanch them. Food can either be water blanched or steam blanched. Both methods are equally effective in keeping bacteria out of your foods, if done properly. Water blanching requires cooking vegetables in boiling water for a specific length of time, which varies depe

Freezing Garden Vegetables

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Important information to safely freeze fresh food from the vegetable garden.

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Make Your Veggie Garden Pay Tips for getting the most out of your vegetable garden. http://woodstreetsgardens.blogspot.com/2010/03/mak...

Make Your Veggie Garden Pay

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Tips for getting the most out of your vegetable garden.

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Tips for Freezing Garden Vegetables

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The Wood Streets Gardens: Freezing Garden Vegetables

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