Edible

Learn all about edible gardening to improve your health, save on groceries, and reconnect with nature. Our detailed guides show you how to grow food!

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Fruits

When and How to Thin Fruit Trees for Beginners

Thinning is one of the hardest things a fruit tree grower has to do! Though it seems you’re removing the future harvest, you’re helping your tree grow large, juicy fruits instead of many tiny ones. Join backyard grower Jerad Bryant to thin your fruit trees for successful harvests.

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Edible

How to Grow Watercress Indoors: 17 Simple Steps

Do you love the spicy, earthy, and nutritious flavor of watercress? You can grow watercress indoors by following a few simple steps. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you how to grow healthy watercress plants in your home.

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Vegetables

15 Best Vegetables to Grow in Your Survival Garden

Are you preparing for tough times this year by starting a survival garden? Vegetables will play a huge part in feeding your family if things get dire. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum covers the best survival garden vegetables to grow this year.

Freshly dug garlic crops with long, wilted green leaves and plump, dirt-covered bulbs with papery outer layers lying in the gardener's hands, grown with the goal of lowering grocery costs.

Edible

11 Crops You Can Grow at Home to Lower Grocery Costs

With the price of produce always on the rise, your grocery bill can feel like it's skyrocketing. Growing your own food is a great way to get the freshest, tastiest produce while cutting down your food budget. Vegetable gardener Melissa Strauss has some tasty veggies that you can grow in your garden to lower your grocery costs.

Close-up of a berry bush with hanging clusters of small, glossy red berries hang from thin, woody stems, surrounded by lobed, vibrant green leaves with serrated edges, planted in spring.

Fruits

11 Berry Bushes You Can Plant in Early Spring

If you need more sweet and delicious fruit in your life, berry bushes are a fast way to make that happen. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss shares some spring-planted shrubs that produce the sweetest, juiciest fruits around!