Learn how to start a potager, or cottage vegetable garden. This category covers the basics of planning a garden, choosing the right plants, and setting up simple systems to garden with success. These posts are for beginners who want to start a small garden and gain confidence. Grow your own vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
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Today is the day to begin planning your first cut-flower garden. Cut flowers are easy to grow and so rewarding. If you’ve struggled with vegetables, you may find cut flowers grow more readily for you.
See our raised beds with arched trellises, the in-ground cut flower garden, and the small orchard at Not Quite a Homestead backyard garden.
I never thought I would grow a garden. Something about sweating in the hot sun, pulling weeds around dying plants,
