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Garden Tips & Ideas

Do you love gardening? Plants? Nature? Being outdoors?

You’ve come to the right place. I share my best indoor and outdoor gardening tips including everything I wish I knew when I was getting started.

• Gardening | Browse all of the gardening tips on this site. There’s a lot!

New to Gardening | Here’s a dictionary of common terms and expressions. There’s lots of jargon to learn!

Outdoor Gardening | See all the tips here

• Outdoor Gardening | Tips for outdoor growing, including annuals and perennials.
  • Bulb Growing Tips | Getting started with flowering bulbs (fall is planting time).
  • Container Gardening Ideas | Plant lists, project ideas, creative planters
  • Fruit Growing Tips | Creative and practical ideas for strawberries, apples, raspberries, and more.
  • Flower Growing Tips | Annuals and perennials.
  • Herb Growing Tips | Growing tips and creative crafting with herbs.
    • Growing Herbs | Annuals and perennials, indoors and outdoors.
    • Growing Herbs Indoors | Best plant choices and growing tips.
  • Hostas | Growing tips and list of sun-tolerant hostas.
  • Vegetable Growing Tips | Creative and practical ideas for growing vegetables.
    • Growing Vegetables in Containers | Tips for a continuous harvest from spring to fall.
    • Fall & Winter Vegetable Growing Outdoors | Yes, you can. Even in a cold climate.
  • Raised Garden Beds | Free plans, advantages, creative ideas.
  • Greenhouses, Polytunnels, Cold Frames | Give yourself more growing time.
  • Compost, Soil, and Mulch | Garden essentials!
  • Garden Ponds | Tips for ponds, water features, and sparkling, clean water.
  • Succulents & Air Plants | Creative and practical ideas.
  • Pruning & Deadheading | How to snip and clip at the right time.
  • Vertical Gardening | Don’t just grow out, grow up!
• Watering | Self-Watering Garden and Flower Pot Options 
• Fertilizers | Beginners Guide to Organic Fertilizers for the home garden

Money-Saving

• 10 Money-Wasting Garden Mistakes | Avoid the mistakes gardeners ahead of you have made!
• How to Take Softwood Cuttings | Spring and summer
• How to Take Hardwood Cuttings | Fall and winter

Seasonal Guides

• The Gardening Year | An overview of garden tasks through the seasons.
  • Monthly Gardening Tips | Things to grow and make every month of the year.

January | February | March | April | May | June
July | August | September | October | November | December

• Seed Company Listings | United States and Canada | Find the right seeds for your region.
• Plant Databases & Fact Resources | Reliable, fact-based garden information.
• Tours of My Garden | I try to post a tour each year to show how the garden has changed and improved (I hope).
• Garden Influences | Some of my favourite (famous) gardeners.

Seed Starting and Propagation | See all the tips here

Indoor Gardening | See all the tips here

• Indoor Gardening Tips | Includes indoor seed starting, indoor food growing, and houseplants.
  • Indoor Seed Starting | Everything you need to know to grow from seed to harvest, fruit, or flower.
  • Indoor Vegetable & Herb Growing | Yes, you can.
  • Grow Herbs Indoors | Annuals and perennials.
  • Houseplants | My best tips for happy houseplants including how to water just right.
  • How to Grow Salads Indoors | Any time of year!
• Miniature Gardens | Ideas for tiny, small, fairy, and miniature gardens.
  • Plants for Miniature Gardens | How to Choose the Best (Small-Scale) Living Plants

Pets & Wildlife

• Tips for Raising Backyard Chickens
• All Creatures Great and Small | Explore them all!
  • Birds & Mammals
  • Bees
  • Butterflies
  • Hummingbirds | Tips * Plants * Feeding
  • Pollinators

You can also browse everything by sub-topics here.

~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛

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The 12 most popular garden tip sheets and checklists. 
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