Vegetable Garden Ideas, Design & What to Grow
Get ideas for creating a veggie garden that will produce fresh vegetables many months of the year
Photo by: Proven Winners.
Growing your own food can be a very rewarding experience. Whether you're looking to start simple with some lettuce and tomatoes for salads or you want a gourmet kitchen garden, growing vegetables isn't that hard.
Vegetables can be grown in the ground, in raised garden beds, in containers, and even mixed into garden beds and borders. Some gardeners choose to grow from seed, while others prefer to purchase young plants—find the method that works best for you.
Vegetable gardens can also be beautiful—arrange your plants in patterns or rows that are pleasing, use decorative containers, or mix vegetables and flowers. This not only creates a visually attractive garden, but it encourages pollinators to visit, thus producing a higher yield of vegetables.
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Download our PDF Vegetable Garden Planting Guide.
VEGETABLE GARDEN BASICS
Start your veggie garden off right by learning the basics of growing vegetables and herbs at home.
Follow these 6 basic steps and you'll be on your way to growing your own food.
Spice up your landscape and your kitchen with indoor and outdoor herb garden ideas.
Discover secrets to growing a successful edible garden, how to select what to grow, and more.
VEGETABLE GARDEN IDEAS
Discover practical and stylish ways to design your vegetable garden, whether you're growing in-ground, or in containers, raised beds, or a fully enclosed critter-resistant space.
With vegetable gardening's rise in popularity, gardeners are looking for beautiful ways to grow vegetables.
How to lay out and build raised garden beds for growing delicious vegetables at home.
Increase your gardening success by helping plants help each other.
Every square inch matters in a small vegetable garden. Here are practical tips for increasing your bounty.
Embrace edible design in landscaping by growing veggies in flowering gardens, beds, borders, and containers.
Design plans for a garden to keep out deer, rabbits, and other pests; from Karen Chapman, of Le Jardinet Designs.
TYPES OF VEGETABLES TO GROW
The best vegetables to grow are ones that you and your family eat regularly or those that may be hard to get. We have some suggestions of what (and how) to grow some popular choices, and well as fresh-from-the-garden recipes.
Everything you need to know to grow and use this vegetable garden favorite.
Tips for choosing, planting, and growing the right pepper for your garden space and culinary tastes.
7 steps for planting, harvesing, and storing potatoes at home.
Grow this popular kitchen staple for year-round use
Harvest these easy-to-grow, flavorful fruits in your own garden
Plant, harvest, and cook with this essential kitchen herb.
From artichokes to turnips, there are plenty of veggies to grow in your spring garden
Maximize your harvest by taking advantage of the long warm days of summer.
Try these popular cool-weather veggies for a delicious fall harvest.
Plant, harvest, and cook with this essential kitchen herb.
Compact plants that give you homegrown fruits, veggies, and herbs from your rooftop or balcony garden.
A roundup of some of our favorite fresh-from-the-garden food, drinks, and treats.
VEGETABLE GARDENING BOOKS
Learn from the pros in these recommended vegetable gardening books.
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