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Vegetable Garden Seeds News

Sow the seeds of love this Valentine's Day

ChildFund is encouraging New Zealanders to reconsider the traditional Valentine's Day bouquet, and sow the seeds of love instead with a gift of vegetable seeds to a family in the developing world.

Create your own vegetable garden

The benefits and rewards of planting your own vegetable garden at your own home are enormous. MANILA, Philippines — There is no question that arable lands are shrinking as more cities in the Philippines continue to expand.  Urban development has reduced the areas that were once reserved  for agriculture and food production. This is a serious problem but it can be solved through the practice of ...

Gardening takes root in a local schoolyard

The teachers at Radio Park Elementary School in State College have a great tool to help their childr

Expand your vegetable garden with containers

Cherry Stuffer Pepper, a new sweet pepper with 2-inch fruits, perfect for growing in a pot. Seeds of this variety are available from The Cooks Garden.

Start preparing your vegetable garden

By Ed Schroeder Special to the Democrat -- The seed catalogs have arrived, and you probably have chosen or even ordered the vegetable seeds that you want to plant this spring. It might be a little early to plant your seeds directly in the garden, but it's not too early to prepare your vegetable garden plot.

Heirloom seeds offer diverse vegetables

Jere Gettle has always gardened. His memories stretch back to age 3, when he planted his first vegetable garden. Vegetables have captured his interest ever since and propelled him to discover heritage varieties of seeds that he now grows and sells from his Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co.

Tucson, Arizona

TUCSON - What a weekend we have ahead of us - perfect for gardening! If you want to get a jump start on your spring vegetable garden, start now - indoors!

Margaret Lauterbach: Try something new in the vegetable garden

Why should you grow food crops? You’ll eat fresh food rather than food that has been hauled across the country. You’ll know the soil it grew in and what it was fertilized with. And you’ll have the convenience of gathering your food at home rather than going to the grocery store. You can change the menu in a trice, depending on what’s ready for harvest.

Baskets may be way to grow tomatoes

Growing fresh produce for the picking doesn't always mean having a French-intensive vegetable garden, a square-foot garden or an acre truck farm. Porches, patios and decks are becoming the vegetable sites of many of today's urban gardeners, and, as we enter into a new year, you too can jump on this bandwagon.

Vegetable gardens help curb malnutrition in Cagayan schools

By Anna ValmeroTUGUEGARAO CITY, CAGAYAN– The Department of Agriculture (and Department of Education is urging more than 2,000 public schools in the Cagayan Valley region to plant vegetable gardens to supplement school feeding programs.These vegetable gardens primarily aim to augment the supplemental feeding program and achieve nutritious foods for the students, said regional agriculture ...