Garden tips and ideas for growing annual and perennial fruits, veggies, herbs, flowers, shrubs, and trees in a healthy, organic home garden.
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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!
How to Find Your Plant Hardiness Zone and What it Means For Your Garden
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
- Fall Gardening Guide | Tons of helpful tips and checklists
- 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 | Getting Started Guide
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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