Vegetable Gardens & Growing Food

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Choose the Easiest Vegetables to Grow for a Successful Harvest!
Let’s face it: Some crops are just easier to grow than others. Check out this list of a dozen easy vegetables to grow for a good harvest. They’re the perfect crops for beginning gardeners! If you’re new to growing vegetables, keep it simple and stick with options that are sure to leave you feeling successful at the end of your first official growing season. These easy to grow vegetables offer great odds and are some of the easiest to add to your vegetable garden.
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era
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Boosting Soil with Eggshells
Do eggshells help in the garden? Absolutely! Using eggshells for plants in the garden can boost your garden’s productivity — and it won’t cost a dime! They are a free byproduct of cooking in most households. Instead of tossing them in the trash, use them to improve your garden soil.
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era
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How to Plant Vegetable Seeds
If you’re planting a garden, you’ll need to decide if you’re starting with seeds or seedlings. Here’s what you need to know about seed germination and growing vegetables from seeds. Simply put, the process of germination is a seedling sprouting from a seed. Given appropriate conditions, a seed germinates, sends out cotyledon (first leaves), and then matures into a seedling. Here's how to get started!
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era
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Growing Rosemary
If you love the bold flavor of rosemary in your meals, consider growing rosemary in your garden! It’s a great addition to herb gardens and valuable as a drought tolerant landscape plant as well. Rosemary is one of those plants that can adapt to any spot in the garden. You can plant rosemary in the herb garden with other fragrant herbs like sage, lavender and tarragon; add plants to the perennial garden as an accent; or plant in the vegetable garden with beans, cabbages and carrots.
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era
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Growing Collards
Growing collard greens is a delicious way to get some extra-healthy dark leafy greens in your vegetable garden. Similar to its cousin kale, collard greens are easy to grow. Both the leaves and stems are edible, and they can be eaten in all of the same ways as cabbage, spinach, and kale. #gardening #garden #backyardgarden
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Growing Banana Pepper Plants
If you love the flavor of hot peppers, but not the intense heat, add some banana pepper plants to your gardening plan! They’re easy to grow and will produce all summer long. There are both sweet and spicy banana pepper varieties, so be sure you know what you’re planting. Confusingly, there aren’t a lot of named varieties; these peppers are commonly just labeled as “sweet” or “hot.” #urbangarden #frontyardgarden #vegetablegarden
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Growing Shallots in the Home Garden
Growing shallots in your home garden is a great way to enjoy their mild oniony flavor whenever the mood strikes. Not quite the same as garlic, and not quite the same as onion, shallots have their own unique flavor palate. These are easy to grow, delicious, and perfect for your fall or spring garden. #gardening #backyardgarden
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Growing Broccoli
Broccoli is a cruciferous vegetable and a member of the superhero mustard family. Timing is important when planting broccoli in the home garden. Broccoli heads need to be harvested while temperatures are still cool and before the summer days heat up. This guide to growing broccoli will get you started!
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era
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Growing Edible Flowers
Growing flowers you can eat adds an extra element of surprise in your garden, offering up an opportunity to harvest more food. Edible flowers add color, flavor, and beauty to homegrown salads and other dishes. Provided that you follow a few safety rules, edible flowers can make an ordinary dish remarkable. Fresh flowers are usually eaten raw or used as a garnish. #frontyardgarden #urbangarden
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Growing Celery in the Vegetable Garden
Growing celery in the home garden provides crunchy snacks and flavor for homemade soups and stews. Celery will provide a harvest – both leaves and stems – for months (or even a couple of years) making it a worthwhile addition to your garden plans. I love having celery growing in my garden both for its usefulness in cooking and its sheer beauty. It grows one-to-two feet tall and the celery leaves are beautiful foliage.
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era
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Growing Okra in the Home Garden
Home gardeners are in for a surprise the first time they plant and grow okra: the flowers look like beautiful hollyhock blooms. Growing okra in the vegetable garden nets a harvest as well as beautiful blooms. The good looking plant can hold its own in a front yard garden. The fruit is delicious baked or pickled! #urbangarden #vegetablegarden #frontyardgarden
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Growing Kohlrabi in the Vegetable Garden
Kohlrabi is an odd-looking member of the turnip family. The bulbous stem grows above ground with leaves poking straight out and up. It's unusual, but once gardeners taste the mild broccoli and celery root flavor, they always wish they planted more in their vegetable garden.
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era
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Growing Beets in the Vegetable Garden
Beet colors include gold, white, and some with red and white concentric interior rings. Root shapes can vary from perfectly round and globe-shaped to long and cylindrical. There are carrot-shaped beets and beets with flat roots. No matter what you choose, growing beets in your vegetable garden will net a delicious harvest; the flavor of fresh beets outranks the canned version by leaps and bounds.
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era
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Growing Green Beans in the Vegetable Garden
Growing green beans in a home vegetable garden is a satisfying endeavor! Also known as string beans, these legumes are easy to grow and a green bean plant will produce for an extended period of time. Beans from these plants can be used as tender snap beans — called green beans, string beans, or French beans — that are cooked in their pod. #backyardgarden #urbangardening
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Attainable Sustainable | DIY Self-Reliant Living for a Modern Era