Gardening Tips and Ideas

A few helpful gardening tips for starting seeds, saving money on garden supplies and using less water in your garden.

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Backyard DIY Organic Composting Tips

Composting is a easy way to improve your long-term soil structure and fertilize your plants. Compost systems can be as simple as a box of clippings ...
Container Gardening Tips

Container Gardening Tips

Containers gardens are a great way to have vegetables and flowers without a yard. Plants can be grown in anything from an empty soup can to ...
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Growing and Saving Heirloom Vegetables

The Case For Growing and Saving Heirloom Vegetables and Plants Heirloom or heritage seeds in general are seeds that have been saved and grown year after ...
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Low-Water Gardening and Drought Woes

Low-Water Gardening, Watering Tips, Rationing and Graywater Use in The West Most of the plants I write about on my GardenPages are drought tolerant or can ...
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Florals, Plants and Other Gardener Art

Find funny gardener art and saying on stationery, t-shirts, aprons, seed saving stickers, mugs plus new and vintage fruit and vegetable art, please drop by my ...
Drought tolerant screen plants

Drought Tolerant Screen Plants

Drought Tolerant Shrubs, Trees and Other Plants for Quick Garden Privacy Screens or Hedges Many people are rediscovering the joys of taking 'staycations' by staying home ...
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Organic Gardening Tips

It's easy to go organic! Here at theGardenPages we have been (mostly) organic gardening for years. Not because we're on a crusade to change the world, ...