Skip to contentOver the years I’ve done a few gardening videos and put them up on Youtube. I’m starting to get a little more into video production for Youtube and would love to have you along as a subscriber! Just go right here to subscribe: Subscribe to Growing The Home Garden on Youtube.Below are some of the links to the videos I currently have on Youtube for your to enjoy. More content will be coming! If you have a garden topic you would like me to cover let me know!   A look at what aster yellows disease is, it’s symptoms, and what you can do to control it’s spread in the...…Skip to contentOver the years I’ve done a few gardening videos and put them up on Youtube. I’m starting to get a little more into video production for Youtube and would love to have you along as a subscriber! Just go right here to subscribe: Subscribe to Growing The Home Garden on Youtube.Below are some of the links to the videos I currently have on Youtube for your to enjoy. More content will be coming! If you have a garden topic you would like me to cover let me know!   A look at what aster yellows disease is, it’s symptoms, and what you can do to control it’s spread in the...WW…

Skip to contentHere is a collection of vegetable gardening posts that I’ve written over the last few years. Some are gardening designs and others are more general but in either case hopefully they will be of some use to you!The garden layouts and designs section contains a group of posts about designing a raised bed vegetable garden.  Some are layouts and ideas based on my own garden while others are purely speculative made for the fun of imagining a garden. I hope you can find these useful.  If you can’t find what you are looking for here please contact me through Facebook,...…Skip to contentHere is a collection of vegetable gardening posts that I’ve written over the last few years. Some are gardening designs and others are more general but in either case hopefully they will be of some use to you!The garden layouts and designs section contains a group of posts about designing a raised bed vegetable garden.  Some are layouts and ideas based on my own garden while others are purely speculative made for the fun of imagining a garden. I hope you can find these useful.  If you can’t find what you are looking for here please contact me through Facebook,...WW…

Skip to contentHere at Growing The Home Garden I’m a huge proponent of raised bed gardening.  Raised beds can be made of all sorts of materials and have all kinds of advantages for growing a garden.  Raised beds are great solution for many tricky situations in the garden. Here are a few ways that raised beds can help a garden that may have some issues!Poor soil.  Very few gardeners are lucky enough to have perfect soil for gardening.  You may have hard clay, very sandy soil, or even no soil!  Raised beds help in each of these situations by allowing the gardener to...…Skip to contentHere at Growing The Home Garden I’m a huge proponent of raised bed gardening.  Raised beds can be made of all sorts of materials and have all kinds of advantages for growing a garden.  Raised beds are great solution for many tricky situations in the garden. Here are a few ways that raised beds can help a garden that may have some issues!Poor soil.  Very few gardeners are lucky enough to have perfect soil for gardening.  You may have hard clay, very sandy soil, or even no soil!  Raised beds help in each of these situations by allowing the gardener to...WW…

Skip to contentI’m a huge fan of vegetable gardening – or any gardening for that matter – in raised beds. There are many reasons raised beds are great for gardens like being able to garden nearly anywhere (even on rocky ground), controlling the soil, or planting more plants in a smaller space but what actually makes a good raised bed? The best raised beds give you all the advantages I just mentioned and can be made of many different kinds of materials. Here are just some of the best materials for raised beds.In my mind the best raised bed materials are those that will last for a long time,...…Skip to contentI’m a huge fan of vegetable gardening – or any gardening for that matter – in raised beds. There are many reasons raised beds are great for gardens like being able to garden nearly anywhere (even on rocky ground), controlling the soil, or planting more plants in a smaller space but what actually makes a good raised bed? The best raised beds give you all the advantages I just mentioned and can be made of many different kinds of materials. Here are just some of the best materials for raised beds.In my mind the best raised bed materials are those that will last for a long time,...WW…

Skip to contentEvery year I tweak the vegetable garden layout a little.  I new get ideas, want to try different arrangements, and theorize about what might work better.  This could mean one of these days I’ll strike the right balance of form and function, but until then it just means a whole lot of tinkering, moving, shoveling, mulching, and probably quite a bit of muscle soreness! Whenever I do change the layout of my raised bed vegetable garden I have 4 four goals:Make a better (more functional) arrangement for planting and harvesting vegetables.Plan for good access for...…Skip to contentEvery year I tweak the vegetable garden layout a little.  I new get ideas, want to try different arrangements, and theorize about what might work better.  This could mean one of these days I’ll strike the right balance of form and function, but until then it just means a whole lot of tinkering, moving, shoveling, mulching, and probably quite a bit of muscle soreness! Whenever I do change the layout of my raised bed vegetable garden I have 4 four goals:Make a better (more functional) arrangement for planting and harvesting vegetables.Plan for good access for...WW…