Growing Guides

Everything you need to know about starting seeds indoors. Learn about equipment, timing, and techniques for healthy seedlings.

Master the art of moving seedlings to the garden. Learn hardening off, timing, and techniques to prevent transplant shock.

Build healthy soil for healthy plants. Understand soil types, amendments, and how to make your own compost.

Learn proper watering techniques and set up efficient irrigation systems for your garden.

Identify common garden pests and diseases. Learn organic prevention and treatment methods.

Maximize your harvest with proper pruning techniques. Learn when and how to prune different crops.

Extend your growing season with cold frames, row covers, and other season extension techniques.

Know when to harvest for peak flavor and how to store your produce for maximum freshness.

Learn to save seeds from your garden harvest. Complete guides for each crop family with step-by-step instructions.

Multiply your plants through cuttings, division, layering, and runners. Learn vegetative propagation techniques for herbs, berries, and perennials.

Learn water bath canning, pressure canning, freezing, dehydrating, and fermenting techniques for long-term food storage of your garden harvest.

Grow nutrient-dense microgreens at home in 7-14 days. Complete guide covering equipment, 25+ varieties, growing techniques, and troubleshooting.

Master gardening in small spaces with containers, vertical gardens, balconies, and indoor growing. Perfect for city dwellers and apartment gardeners.

Learn regenerative gardening through food forests, companion planting guilds, water harvesting, and no-dig methods that work with nature.

16 comprehensive chapters covering raised bed construction, container selection, soil mixes, square foot gardening, intensive planting, watering systems, and maximizing harvests in small spaces.

Extend your growing season with greenhouses, grow lights, and indoor setups. Learn climate control, lighting, and year-round growing techniques.

Grow chemical-free produce using natural fertilizers, organic pest control, and soil-building techniques that nurture your garden ecosystem.

Create a pollinator garden to help save the endangered Monarch butterfly. Learn how to plant milkweed for caterpillars and support bees, hummingbirds, and other essential pollinators.

Master indoor mushroom growing with our comprehensive mycology guide. Learn to cultivate oyster, shiitake, lion's mane, reishi, and 15+ gourmet and medicinal varieties.

Complete guide to growing American ginseng from seed to harvest. Learn site selection, stratification, planting methods, and marketing for this high-value medicinal root.

Complete guide to growing strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, grapes, and fruit trees. Learn floricane vs primocane pruning, rootstocks, and training systems.

Master soil science and composting. 22 comprehensive chapters covering soil biology, testing, organic matter, composting systems, cover crops, mulching, and long-term soil management.

From first hive to sustainable apiary. 24 chapters covering bee biology, equipment, colony management, seasonal care, Varroa treatment, honey harvesting, and building a beekeeping business.

Master soilless cultivation with our 26-chapter comprehensive guide. Learn DWC, NFT, aeroponics, Kratky, water chemistry, nutrients, lighting, climate control, troubleshooting, and scaling from hobby to commercial.