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Shoestring Living: Tips for your frugal garden

Occasionally, it absolutely makes sense to splurge. For me, that splurge usually comes in the form of flowers or plants and this time of year, my gardening gloves are itching to hit the dirt. As long as our budget warrants it, the budget will include garden spending in the spring.

Thomas Jefferson's Vegetable Garden: A Thing Of Beauty And Science

Thomas Jefferson's garden was a vast, beautiful science experiment involving over 300 varieties of 90 different plants. And no gardening detail was too small for Jefferson to note in the gardening journal he kept for nearly 60 years.

Protecting Your Vegetable Garden is Easy with a Deer Fence

Installing a deer fence around the home vegetable garden this spring is a gardener’s best chance at keeping hungry deer from eating the harvest. DeerBusters.com's poly deer fence is an affordable, nearly invisible solution to many gardeners biggest wildlife problem.Frederick, MD (PRWEB) May 09, 2012 Spring is here, and that means that it is time to dust off the tiller and get the garden in shape ...

Good irrigation key to healthy garden

We spend a lot of time and money during the year in the vegetable garden. Irrigation is a good way to improve your garden, specifically drip irrigation. Drip irrigation conserves water by directing it to the root zone of plants where it is most needed.

Healthy Bites: Newly released vegetable plants are super-charged with nutrients

If you are looking for a boost in nutrition this garden season, look no farther than a new line of vegetable plants from Burpee Home Gardens. The recently released "Burpee Boost" high-nutrition vegetables have up

Leafy, tasty, easy: Basil is garden favorite

Basil is one of the basics of a vegetable garden. It's easy to grow, isn't prone to problems and will provide lots of fragrant, flavorful leaves through the summer and into fall.

Michelle Obama: my White House Kitchen Garden

In this extract from her book American Grown, Michelle Obama describes her joy at being able to create a thriving vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House

Our Garden: Creating the perfect irrigation system for your vegetable garden

Creating a drip irrigation system for a vegetable garden -- one that delivers water to the soil around plants' roots through narrow tubing, instead of spraying it onto leaves -- can be a sophisticated plan that involves running water lines and shut-off valves underground.

Growing Families at the Children’s Vegetable Garden

The Children’s Vegetable Garden at the San Antonio Botanical Garden (SABOT) has been on my mind for a story since January. As I walked several times a week past the garden area on the back side of SABOT’s property, I watched it go from bare ground, to shoots and leaves, to budding plants. By the time I finally arranged a visit, the gardening families were already harvesting onions and ...

What’s the best way to attract ‘good’ insects?

Q: We have plans ready for our vegetable garden. I want to add plants that will attract good insects ...