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How to Grow Vegetables
Here’s all the information—everything you’ll ever need—to grow a great home vegetable garden: inspiration, planning, selecting plants, planting, caring, and harvesting.
For the gardener in you.
Vegetable Gardening Contents:
In this section on vegetable gardening, you’ll find:
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- Where to begin?
- Planning a vegetable garden and plants you’ll grow.
- Planting a vegetable garden.
- Caring for plants in a vegetable garden and solving common plant health problems.
- Harvesting, preserving, storing, and freezing, canning, or pickling vegetables at home.
- A guide to the most commonly planted home vegetables with all you need to know about them.
Let’s Get Started!
This vegetable gardening section is divided into five major parts: Planning, Planting, Caring, Harvesting, and a Vegetables Plant-Selection Guide that lists every detail about 68 of the most popular vegetables home gardeners plant, plus 35 culinary herbs.
Vegetable Garden Planning, Planting, and Care
Choose from these three topics to see examples of vegetable gardens in many styles in a variety of yards, including container vegetable gardens. Learn how to plan and plant a vegetable garden with easy-to-follow, expert demonstrations. Find complete information on how to care for your vegetables and your garden through the growing season. Just click on the linked pictures below to start one of these three sections.
Harvesting Information and Plant Selection Guide
When it’s time to pick, pull, harvest and freeze, preserve, or store vegetables from your garden, you’ll find all the details in this section. It is followed by a comprehensive Vegetable Plant Selection Guide with detailed descriptions of 68 common vegetables and over 35 herbs.
In its listings, you’ll find every detail on every vegetable plant in one convenient, comprehensive, and easy-to-use guide. Included for each plant is its yield, planting instructions, light and temperature requirements, soil needs, care, companion plants, harvesting, storage, and general information about the vegetable.
Select the section of your choice by clicking on the linked pictures below.
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