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Your Complete Guide to Summer Vegetable Gardening

Fresh, cool cucumbers. Crisp green beans. Tomatoes! If you're planning on growing a vegetable garden this summer, whether in a few pots on your balcony or a full blown mini farm in your yard, here is a handy list of resources to make your summer vegetable garden a success. + READ MORE

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Get Rid of the Most Common Vegetable Garden Insect Pests - Without Poisoning Your Garden

It's true that insects, including insect pests, are part of gardening. However, the vegetable garden is definitely not the place to use harmful chemicals in the name of bug control. With that in mind, we're here to help you identify and eradicate (in an Earth-friendly manner!) any pests you come across in your vegetable garden. + READ MORE

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66 Things You Can Grow at Home: In Containers, Without a Garden

Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don't have to worry about the pesticides they might contain, and you definitely cut down on the miles they—and you—have to travel. As it turns out, with pretty minimal effort, anyone can be a gardener. + READ MORE

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More Tomato Haikus!

Tomato Varieties Tomato Haiku XXXII Cherry tomato One bite squirts juice fireworks Rocketing skyward —N. Dreyfus Tomato Haiku XXXIII Heirloom or vine grown taste the freshest and the best Red and delicious —M. Vigdor Tomato Haiku XXXIV Heirloom tomatoes + READ MORE

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73 Tomato Haikus

Here at Planet Green we take the slightly controversial opinion that when it comes to tomato haiku contests, there are only winners. That's why if you entered our inaugural tomato haiku contest you're a winner and featured here (leave + READ MORE

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Enter the Planet Green Tomato Haiku Contest!

Love tomatoes? Write a haiku to show your love. Then submit your haiku in our tomato haiku contest. We'll choose our favorites and post them on PlanetGreen.com Haiku—What's That? In case you need to brush up on your haiku skills, + READ MORE

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Organic Gardening: Why Grow-it-Yourself Organic Food is Here to Stay and How to Get on the Bandwagon

Composting, warding off insects, choosing what, when and how to grow everything: you might find the idea of gardening, well, overwhelming and not altogether appealing. But then you consider the money you could save, the carbon emissions you could cut, + READ MORE

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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