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Compost Happens

Hands puting organic matter in a compost bin.

Compost promotes healthy plant growth, and homemade compost is wonderful to add to your garden soil each season. Here are some secrets to turning organic matter into benefit-rich compost.

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Garden Clean-up

Garden cleanup

These five simple gardening tips will help you clean your garden and eliminate insects and diseases. Keeping your garden healthy from season to season is easy if you take the time to prevent problems in advance.

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Good Soil Means Good Vegetables

Good soil means good vegetables

Turn your garden soil into black gold, even if your site has hard soil or debris. Nutrient-rich top soil makes for more productive herb and vegetable plants. These tips will help you tackle common garden soil challenges.

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If You Can’t Beat It, Raise It: The Basics of Raised Beds

Raised Beds in a garden.

Overcome your garden soil challenges by opting to plant raised beds for growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Raised beds allow you to increase your depth of good garden soil and allow for better drainage, plus you'll have more room than in traditional rows.

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Soil: It’s Alive!

Soil map of the nutrient growth process

Garden soil teems with life. Learn how to encourage the unseen creatures underfoot, and you’ll grow your best garden ever. Learn about the soil food web.

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Why Does pH Matter?

pH testing kit will help determine what you should use to prime your soil.

Soil pH affects how vital nutrients are delivered to your plants. If your soil pH is too high or too low, your vegetable plants may not be growing to their potential. Use these methods to test and adjust your soil pH.

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How to Grow Bonnie's Herbs and Vegetables

Learn how to grow any vegetable or herb. Illustrated instructions walk you through planting, care, harvest,  storage, and troubleshooting for each Bonnie vegetable and herb.


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