Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation The majestic oak is one of Tennessee’s most beautiful native trees. It’s also an extremely useful tree for our local wildlife as it can host over 200 species of insects and animals. You can see why you would want to cultivate more oak trees! Recently I gathered some acorns from a nearby tree on our ... Read more The post Float Testing Acorns for Viability appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Recently we moved into a new home. With a new home comes many challenges. With respect to the garden we are dealing with a blank slate to cultivate. Starting new gardens is a fun and challenging prospect but while doing so it is important to create these gardens in a way that will nurture them ... Read more The post Using Grass Clippings to Start a New Garden appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation I do a lot of cuttings and have experimented with quite a few mediums but over the years I’ve found that sand is one of the best options out there for a rooting medium. Sand is readily available, sterile, and versatile, making it an excellent choice for successful propagation. In this post I’ll tell you ... Read more The post Why I Like to Use Sand as a Rooting Medium for Plant Cuttings appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation To say that deer have been a challenge over the years is somewhat of an understatement. Deer love to graze around my garden. In fact over the last couple months we’ve watched as a family of deer has grown. Several fawns appeared in the garden and have been growing like the weeds. Gardeners and deer ... Read more The post How to Keep Deer Out of 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 Whether you want to learn more about growing bell peppers, banana peppers, or hot spicy peppers there are a few things you need to know! Peppers are a popular vegetable among home gardeners, prized for all kinds of vibrant colors, flavors, and great nutritional benefits. Peppers are absolutely one of my favorite vegetable garden plants ... Read more The post Everything You Need to Know About Growing Amazing Peppers appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Due to a lot of reasons I’ve chosen to pot up the vegetable garden this year. The top reason is we will need to move in the middle of the gardening season and I don’t want to leave behind those tasty tomatoes and peppers! Because we’ll be moving sometime in July or August it just ... Read more The post Advantages and Disadvantages of Growing a Vegetable Garden in Pots appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation I’m a huge hosta fan. I wouldn’t call myself a collector but I really enjoy how well hostas thrive with very little need for attention. Hostas certainly have a few issues but to me they are a very easy going plant to grow in the garden. There are so many varieties of hosta available with ... Read more The post What Plants Should You Plant with Hostas? appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Garden mulch can be an essential part of your garden. Mulch has a number of benefits including keeping the moisture in the soil and adds beneficial organic matter. Mulch can be valuable in reducing weed pressure as well. How much mulch do you need? Below is a simple mulch calculator to help you determine how ... Read more The post A Helpful Garden Mulch Calculator appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Isn’t it great to have a few easy to propagate plants that you can grow to increase your garden? The plants in the video below are all easy to grow from cuttings. Salvia, catmint, creeping phlox, monarda, and lemon balm. General Propagation Procedures for These Plants (and Many others) Before you Start Taking Cuttings As ... Read more The post 5 Easy Perennials to Propagate from Cuttings appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation The redbuds are in bloom! Cercis canadensis is a beautiful native plant here in Tennessee and in other areas of the country. Redbuds are an understory tree that do best on the outskirts of forest areas or with partial shade locations. They don’t grow very tall, somewhere around 20-30 feet or so. Redbud flowers are ... Read more The post Redbud Trees (Cercis canadensis) appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more