Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation To me grass clippings are one of the best resources a gardener can get! I see grass clippings from lawn as an amazing way to gather organic matter for other uses in the garden ranging from composting and garden beds to mulching! Here are some really great ways to utilize this free organic resources in ... Read more The post What to Do With Grass Clippings in the Garden? appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Recently while upsizing my tomato seedlings into larger pots I needed some plant labels. Normally I will use the cut up slats of mini-blinds. I have a few sets I’ve collected over the years just for this purpose but I actually didn’t have them here at our current house. They were back over at the ... Read more The post How to Make Simple Plant Labels from Sticks appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Rosemary is one of my favorite plants in the garden. This amazing evergreen herb is well known for fragrant aroma and culinary uses. Rosemary grows very will in a variety of conditions including pots, in gardens, in raised beds, or even indoors! You might be wondering “Can you propagate more rosemary from your garden?” Yes ... Read more The post How to Propagate Rosemary: A Complete Guide appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

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Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation ‘Black Dragon’ cryptomeria (Cryptomeria japonica, USDA zones 6-9) is a beautiful evergreen tree for the garden. The foliage is a dark green with some twisting shapes that create an unusually contorted figure. It’s an amazing evergreen specimen for Japanese gardens or as focal points. This past spring I took some cuttings of our cryptomeria and ... Read more The post How to Propagate Cryptomeria (‘Black Dragon’) appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation When we purchased the Harbor Freight 6×8 greenhouse back 8 years ago we weren’t sure how long it would last. We spent around $250 on this little backyard greenhouse and based on that I really think it’s done a good job for what it is. It can be assembled in a weekend and you can ... Read more The post My Backyard Greenhouse 8 Years Later appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Sweet gum trees (Liquidambar styraciflua) are beautiful trees and are great to have around for wildlife. The seeds of the sweet gum tree are eaten by small mammals like squirrels and chipmunks as well as a number of birds including finches, ducks, quail, chickadees, sparrows, towhees, and Carolina wrens. With all that wildlife enjoying the ... Read more The post How to Save Seeds from Sweetgum Trees appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation A few months ago I was sent some Muck Boots from the Muck Boot company to try out. Disclaimer: They sent me the boots for free but everything I say in this post is my own opinion. Also I’ve used affiliate links in this post to Tractor Supply if you would like to find a ... Read more The post Muck Boots can be Great Gifts for Gardeners! appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation A Couple weeks ago a friend from Texas sent me a 5 tiered Greenstalk Vertical Planter. It’s an interesting concept for a planter that allows you to grow vertical and save on garden space. The planter came shipped with the 5 tiers, the top watering reservoir, a stand with wheels, a short drain tube for ... Read more The post A Review of the Greenstalk Vertical Planter appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation When starting a new garden there are a million things you may be thinking about. While they may be important, or at least important to you, there are 3 key elements that are absolutely the most important things to consider when starting a new garden. I’m beginning the challenge to starting a brand new vegetable ... Read more The post Essential Garden Tips: 3 KEY Elements of Starting a New Garden appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more