Starting a Vegetable Garden

Before planting a vegetable garden, you'll want to make sure that you have given yourself the best chance at success. We'll show you how to assess your climate for a garden, design and layout your vegetable garden, improve your soil, compost, and help you get your garden growing.

Planting a Vegetable Garden

Once you're done the groundwork for starting a vegetable garden, you're ready to plant. We'll teach you how to transplant vegetable seedlings from indoors, care for them, seed directly in the vegetable garden, start new vegetable plants from parts of existing plants, and space vegetables the proper length apart.

Caring for a Vegetable Garden

Even the most carefully planned vegetable garden will not flourish unless it is given the proper attention and care. Learn how to stake vegetables, weed a vegetable garden, create good mulches for the garden, water it, prepare it for winter, and control pests through chemical and organic methods.

Vegetable Garden Growing Tips

Know you have a problem in the garden, but you're not sure what it is? We'll answer a variety of common questions and give you insider tips for the best methods. For example, plant near the kitchen window for easy access to the best vegetables. We will provide you with ample vegetable garden growing tips.

Vegetables

The best part of growing a vegetable garden is the edible bounty it produces at the end of the season. We'll help you choose the different vegetables for your garden. We'll teach you how to grow specific vegetables. Learn about the different vegetable types. If you can't wait until next season, we'll show you how to select and store vegetables, as well as the health benefits for vegetables, of which there are many.