Vegetable Garden Blog

Making Heavy Duty Tomato Cages

Heavy-duty-tomato-cages
One of the important decisions you have to make when growing tomatoes is how you want to support them. There's several options but most have significant downsides. With that in mind, I decided to make my own heavy duty cages. They didn't take very long to make, are much studier than store bought ones, and in subsequent years there's no labor involved in using them. Best of all, I made 20 cages for only $80, including the bolt cutters!
Read Entire Post

Making a Trellis for Beans and Peas

Bean-trellis
One of the most important things you have to do to grow beans (or peas) successfully is to provide them with proper growing support. There's many options out there but I finally focused on building a trellis out of PVC pipe with string mesh netting. Follow the directions below and you can have your own highly portable trellis.
Read Entire Post

New Gardening Tools

We have been working hard over the winter on updating the vegetable garden journal and adding new tools for our gardening community. Last week we launched our most recent features and wanted to tell you about them.
Read Entire Post

New Vegetable Garden Journal Functionality

We've now added a consolidated view so you can view all your vegetable garden journal notes in one place. You can also easily filter by date range, specific gardens, or even specific plants.
Read Entire Post

New Vegetable Garden Journal

We're excited to make a big announcement for us here at Vegetable Garden Planner, one that should only increase our value to all you readers. In order to help track our gardens some of us have been developing an online vegetable garden journal. We've been using it this year on our personal gardens and have been working through the bugs during that time. We're happy to finally be able to offer the beta version to you all for free.
Read Entire Post

Permaculture in a Jerusalem Garden

Urban_garden
Good article in the Jerusalem Post about a community garden in Jerusalem practicing permaculture.
Read Entire Post

Growing a Gourmet Salad Garden at Home

Salad_garden
If you have been interested in starting your own salad garden at home this is must read.
Read Entire Post

Start Your Vegetable Garden Journal

Looking to start tracking the progress of your vegetable garden? Our vegetable garden journal is free for all our readers and even includes photo uploads for a visual history of your garden.
More Information


Gardener's Supply Company

Dutch Gardens, Inc.