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Grow Your Own

Whether you love flowers, fruits, veggies, herbs, or all of the above, follow our step-by-step guides to growing them organically in the comfort of your own home.

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Growing Phytoplankton

This article was originally published in Garden Culture Magazine US02. Yes, this article is about cultivating that ‘green stuff that …

Easy Urban Micro Gardening

This article was originally published in Garden Culture Magazine AUS01, under the title: “Budget Edible Solutions for Urban Micro Gardeners”. …

Grow Your Own: Cilantro

Need a reason to grow your own cilantro? How about scrumptious salsas, south of the border dishes, and a variety …

Grow Your Own Wasabi

If you’re a regular patron of Japanese restaurants, fiery green wasabi paste is a familiar and welcome sight. So, it might come as …

5 Awesome Tomato Varieties

One big benefit when you grow your own food is the adventure of discovering new things. Whether it be an …

Instant Green Thumb: HUI!

You tried growing veggies at home and failed? Don’t toss in the towel. The difference between a brown thumb and …

Growing Stevia: Nature’s Sweetener

Zero calories, and far sweeter than sugar, the leaves of the Stevia plant offer an alternative to traditional sweeteners in foods …

How To Preserve Every Tomato

About this time of year, gardeners have entered the tomato tsunami season. You’ve eaten them every day in every way …

Grow Mammoth Tomatoes

To the tomato lover who gardens, a ‘large’ tomato is one that you only need one slice to cover a …

Homegrown Expo 2015 This Weekend

Are you going to Coventry? It’s the best urban gardening show in the UK – The Homegrown Expo 2015 – …

Growing Hydroponics Lettuce: Cheap DIY

A few weeks ago I started an experimental grow without any fancy equipment; no discount storage boxes or bins. I’m …

Extend Your Harvest’s Freshness

Garden fresh goodness is fleeting, though your homegrown produce will outlast anything you buy at the grocery store. What if …

How To Grow Better Potatoes

Urban gardening enthusiasts find all kinds of ways to grow food, but not every container and method gives you awesome …

Honey: Grow Your Own

Okay, so technically you can’t get honey from seeds, but you can set up your own private beehive just about …

Sustainable Desert Growing

In a coastal area, you can grow tons of food year around without using a drop of fresh water, and …

Grow Some Graffiti

You certainly can’t eat moss, though some plants called ‘moss’ from the Lychin family are edible. However, you can do …

REAL VITAMINS: GROW YOUR OWN

Most people would agree that vitamins are expensive to buy. But you’ve been told you need them to stay healthy, …

Basil: Grow Your Own Seed

For most people growing herbs their goal is to keep the plant from flowering as long as possible. The last …

How To Extend Veggie Garden Harvests

In many growing zones garden fresh goodness will end in just a few weeks, but it doesn’t have to be …

Perfect Climate, Perennial Harvests

In the outdoor garden, almost all crops are seasonal. Sure, you have common perennial favorites, like rhubarbs, asparagus, horseradish, and …

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