Are You New to Vegetable Gardening? Read This First.
A successful vegetable garden takes the right combination of sun, soil, and water. If you're new to vegetable gardening, read this helpful article to get started on planting your first garden.
How to Plant Bonnie Biodegradable Pots
Bonnie peat pots are better for your plants and the environment. Follow these simple steps when planting with Bonnie peat pots and you won't have to worry about transplant shock.
How to Grow Peppers
No matter what the variety, all peppers enjoy a long, warm growing season. Most gardeners like growing peppers in several flavors and colors because an assortment will lengthen the harvest period.
Plant Tomatoes Deep, Deep, Deep
Growing tomatoes breaks the common gardening rule that you shouldn't plant too deeply. Tomato plants should be planted so that a full two-thirds of the plant is underground, creating a better root system.
Caring for Vegetables in Pots
Growing vegetables in pots is easy if you take care to use the right combination of watering and fertilizing. Container gardening will give you great results if you follow this helpful advice.
Summer Herb Harvest Tips
In summer herb gardeners get a delicious payoff for all our efforts. Oddly enough, this is where some gardeners become timid, unsure what to do next because the plants are so full and beautiful, you hardly want to trim them. However, here is a little advice for clipping with confidence.
Want A Raised Bed? Look Here.
Raised beds make it super easy to start a garden. You just fill them with good soil and plant. You can start with a snap-together raised bed kit from a Lowes’s near you, or build your own. Here are three videos with do-it-yourself options from easy to complex.
Most gardeners appreciate the beauty of a veggie, but author Pamela Crawford has taken it to a different level by mixing flowers with the bounty of vegetables. Her trial-and error approach connects with a lot of people who are growing vegetables for the first time and anyone who just wants make them showpieces. With lots of pictures and straight talk Pamela shows gardeners which vegetables were the easiest for her and how to make them look good in containers. See it here.
P. Allen Smith and Bonnie Plants have partnered to create the just-released Grow and Go Together web app for iPhone and iPod Touch users! The web app includes information on more than 50 veggies and herbs, plus loads of projects and recipes. To join the fun, simply navigate to www.pallensmith.com/bonnieapp in your iPhone browser to view our app.