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Homegrown Vegetables
All you need to know to grow food in your own backyard garden
Cut Flower Garden
How to grow flowers from seed and arrange those gorgeous blooms
Using the Harvest
Cooking from scratch, preserving food, drying herbs and more
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How to Start the Cut-Flower Garden of Your Dreams
Starting a cut-flower garden can be a truly rewarding experience. Cut flowers are easy to grow and can thrive even in poor soil conditions. Imagine having endless bouquets…
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Welcome to the NQH Backyard Garden
See our raised beds with arched trellises, the in-ground cut flower garden, and the small orchard at Not Quite a Homestead backyard garden.
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Gardening Is More Than Just Growing Food
I never thought I would grow a garden. Something about sweating in the hot sun, pulling weeds around dying plants, […]
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