Reviving the lost art of self-reliance, one small step at a time
No matter what size your yard (or apartment!) is, you can have a productive vegetable garden using techniques like vertical gardening, container gardening, and maximizing your garden yields.
You don’t have to have acres of land in order to grow a lot of food. Urban gardeners across the globe are embracing the idea of small gardens. By growing abundantly in raised beds, transforming lawns into vegetable gardens, and growing food in the front yard, they’re harvesting food for their families.
Growing some of your own food is smart and can save you some cash at the checkout.
Small gardens are a great option for those with limited space, limited time, and limited mobility.
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What you need to know about planting figs, fig tree care, & growing an indoor fig tree. The pretty tropical foliage & sweet harvest make them hard to beat.
Discover the best microgreens to grow as well as how to grow microgreens indoors with this handy guide to growing wintertime salads.
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Try your hand at growing lettuce indoors! Eat fresh salad greens year round by adopting the idea of growing an inside garden. Perfect for city folks!
Vegetable container gardening is a good option for urban gardeners and easy to do! Make your limited space productive – tips for growing vegetables in pots.
A hanging tomato planter is easy to make at home. Here’s how to transform a 5-gallon bucket into a DIY upside-down tomato planter for a vertical garden.
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Growing food in an urban garden has its challenges. Finding a fast, easy way to get growing in raised beds isn’t one of them. Grow bags solve that problem!
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These small garden ideas will help you get the most bang for your vegetable gardening buck!
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Seed saving is something gardeners have been doing forever. It’s a great way to maintain a continuous supply of heirloom or open-pollinated seeds. Instead of depending on the nursery or your favorite seed catalog every year, you can save seeds from crops you grow and plant them again the following year.
Planting a front yard full of pretty edibles — annual and perennial vegetables — is a great way to use the most of your space.
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