When good plants go bad
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
Surviving through summer’s hot and dry days is a challenge for your spring-planted flowers and vegetables. As we wear into August, you'll find that weeds really take off, insects show up more often....
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Bunny business
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
There may come a time when you venture out to your garden and find your pepper plant munched down to the stem, or your dill decimated without a trace. What’s eating your garden? There’s many....
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Food for your plants
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
You’ve started a vegetable garden to grow your own food. But did you know your plants require food of their own before they can reach their full potential? Applying plant fertilizer is sometimes....
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Weather watching
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
We know you're excited to garden. Waiting all winter and through the unpredictable spring to the days you're given the GO for planting (aka the frost-free date) it feels like forever! Patience is....
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Your new garden BFF: Burpee podcasts
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
Besides your trowel and clippers, the other useful tool you should take into your garden is your smartphone. That’s right! It’s a great way to have instant access to many of your gardening....
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Congrats are in order! Now it’s time to clean
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
You are now officially a "Green Thumb" gardener! I've enjoyed coaching you through the season and hope you’ve had a tremendous experience growing, caring, harvesting and eating your....
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Now who’s eating my tomatoes?!
Tiffany Heater Account Manager | Burpee
The season has been going great, your tomatoes are growing just fine, and suddenly one day you go out to your garden and there are a ton of leaves missing off your tomato plants! Who is after your....
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Mid-season garden checklist
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
Around this time of year your vegetable plants have established themselves. They’re growing and filling their container or garden bed, and probably setting loads of fruit. What an accomplishment!....
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Take stock of your tools
Burpee Edible Gardening Team Members
The waiting game for planting your garden gives you plenty of time to take stock of your essential tools that will get you through the season. Now might be time to replace some of....
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Our school garden is sprouting more than just veggies!
West End IB World School 2011 "I Can Grow" Youth Garden Award Winner
Thanks to Burpee Home Gardens and the “I Can Grow” Youth Garden Award, West End IB World School students, teachers and parents had another successful gardening season!
This past April,....
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