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How to Grow Your Own Vegetable Garden
How to Grow Your Own Vegetable Garden

A step-by-step guide to growing vegetables

A Plant’s Basic Needs
A Plant’s Basic Needs

Every gardener must understand their plants' basic needs.

The Five Steps of IPM
The Five Steps of IPM

Integrated Pest Management will help you grow a healthy garden without harming the environment

Confused by Plant Descriptions?
Confused by Plant Descriptions?

There are so many different terms used by gardeners that it can be confusing. Find some common ones explained here.

Understanding Plant Fertilizer
Understanding Plant Fertilizer

Before you fertilize read this post!

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Confused by Plant Descriptions?

Gardening Terms

Common terms used to describe gardening processes and materials.

Compost

  1. Noun:  decomposing or decomposed plant matter
  2. Verb: the act of creating compost

Divide

Separating a plant into two or more parts

NPK

Atomic symbols for the components of plant fertilizers:

  • Nitrogen
  • Potassium
  • Phosphorus

Transplant

  • Noun: the name for a plant that is being moved from one place to another
  • Verb:  the act of moving a plant from one place to another

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