Growing your Cottage Garden
This page is packed with essential tips, practical advice, and step-by-step instructions to help you navigate planting a cottage garden. From setting up your beds to harvesting the fruits of your labors, the obvious rewards are joined by the fulfillment of time spent outdoors in the dirt and sunshine.
The Cottage Garden
Nothing beats the taste of a homegrown vine-ripened tomato or the flavor of fresh picked basil. Discover beginner’s steps to growing your own food in your backyard.
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Vegetables
I’ll be the first to admit, I struggle to enjoy eating vegetables. It’s just something I never grew out of. But growing my own helps me use them. Even if it’s just growing tomatoes (yes, I know it’s technically a fruit) to make your own spaghetti sauce, or eggplant or zucchini, homegrown vegetables will be the freshest, most nutrient dense you’ll find.
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Fruits
From a backyard orchard to miniature bushes in containers, growing your own fruit is entirely possible!
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Herbs
Herbs are the unsung heroes of the kitchen. Packed with flavor and nutrients, herbs offer beauty for your yard and versatility of use, from cooking to teas all the way to syrups and tinctures for medicine.
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Flowers
Easily the first thing that comes to mind when you think of gardening, flowers are beautiful as well as fragrant. Some are also edible. They provide natural habitat to attract the pollinators your garden needs to thrive. And who can resist a nice bouquet of freshly picked flowers for the table?
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