50 Gardening Ideas & Tips

Planning a garden? Here are my 50 favorite tips and ideas from across the web.

Herbs:

• Make a tiered back door herb garden with The Vintage Wren (above).
• Tips for growing basil from Tipnut.
• Make a one-pot indoor herb garden with Apartment Therapy.
• Givers Log has 13 tips for planting an herb garden.
• Learn a better way to grow cilantro from Sunset Magazine.

Veggies:

• The Vegetable Gardener shares advice for Cut-And-Come-Again Lettuce (above).
• Tons of tips for Growing the Best Green Beans.
• Organic Gardening shares 7 Ways to Plant Potatoes.
• Urban Farmer makes potato towers.
• Grow cucumbers with Your Gardening Info.
• Tips for the best green pepper yield from the Baltimore Sun.
• “Recycle” your green onion end and grow a crop of your own.
• Grow tomatoes indoors with the help of Mother Earth News.
• Grow your own celery with Garden Ally.
• Tips for growing your own lettuce indoors.
• Grow carrots in a container with the Vegetable Garden Guide.
• Trick for big tomato plants from Love Apple Farms.
• Seed Starting Transplanting and Troubleshooting Tomatoes with Common Sense Home.
• Urban Garden Casual grows her tomatoes upside-down in 5 gallon buckets.
• Grow carrots in a 2L soda bottle.
• Garden Advice tells us how to grow zucchini.
• The Daily Green shares 8 perennial vegetables anyone can grow.
• Grow your lettuce in a hanging basket with Rainyside.  Love this!

Seed Starting:

• Sherry’s Greenhouse shares 13 Tips For Healthy Seedlings.
• Seed Starting Made Simple with Organic Gardening.
• DIY Heat Mat for Seed Starting from Vegetable Gardener.
• Make your own seed pots out of newspaper.
• Garden Therapy creates seed pots out of toilet paper rolls.

Pest & Weed Control:

• Simple Organic shows companion planting and pest control plants.
• A Garden For The House uses vinegar as an effective herbicide.
• 35 pest & disease remedies from Fine Gardening.
• TLC shares 15 homemade organic gardening sprays that work.

Planning:

• The Art of Food encourages us to start small with home gardening.
• Create a garden journal with Sunset Magazine.
• Free garden planning tool from Gardeners Supply.
• Plant a compact veggie garden with tips from Boys Life.
• This Old House has a step by step article for making the ultimate garden.
• Martha Stewart has a list of 13 easy to grow veggies.
• Vegetable Garden Plans aplenty from Better Homes & Gardens.
• Learn how to build a no-dig vegetable garden.

Misc:

• Keeper of the Home shares 7 Gardening Lessons From a Novice.
• Blackberry growing with USA Gardens.
• Grow blueberries in a pot with Tipnut.
• Grow your own ginger with Learn2Grow.
• Tips for successful window boxes and pots from Make It Do.
• Measured by the Heart shares a few tips for bigger better veggies.
• Build a compost pile with organic gardening.
• Learn how to plant garlic with The Art of Doing Stuff.
• Build a Perfect Raised Garden Bed with Sunset Magazine.
• Backyard Garden Tutorial from Earth Easy.

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