Beginning Vegetable Garden Basics: Site Selection & Soil Preparation
This fact sheet focuses on how novice gardeners can select and prepare their garden site to ensure maximum success.

Container Gardening
Live in an apartment or condo? You can still raise a garden’s worth of flowers or vegetables in pots and other containers by mastering these methods.

Raised Beds and Containers for Community Gardens
Above-ground gardening offers access and ease for community gardeners of all ages and abilities. Topics covered include raised bed construction, container selection, donated materials, soil, planting, and irrigation.

Tomato Pruning
Are you growing indeterminant tomatoes? Learn this pruning technique to improve fruit production.

Using Manure in the Home Garden
Thinking about using animal manure in your home garden this season? It can be a valuable soil amendment, but there are important things to know about keeping yourself and your plants healthy.

Using Wood Ash in the Home Garden
Wood ash can be a valuable source of certain nutrients and can also be used to modify soil pH.  However, it needs to come from an appropriate source and its use should be based on recommendations from soil testing.

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