Planning a Vegetable Garden for Beginners: The 5 Golden Rules 🏆

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Planning a vegetable garden can feel overwhelming because there are so many options to consider. It needn’t be tricky though – follow our 5 easy steps to help you decide what’s best to grow and where to place it for maximum success.

In this short video we share with you the rules of garden planning to help you to avoid some of the pitfalls and grow your most productive garden yet!

If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner which is available from several major websites and seed suppliers:

http://www.GrowVeg.com

http://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com

http://gardenplanner.almanac.com

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Herbal Folklore

Sanctuary Gardener

Tuesday evening, I attended my first meeting of the South Carolina Herbal Society here in Charleston. Because I’m very interested in learning about herbs and herbal medicine, I brought my membership form and annual fee with me. After the first meeting, I can already say that it is going to be worth it! The leader of the meeting is an experienced herbalist, and she shared for an hour and a half on herbal folklore. As we know, there is usually a thread of truth underlying “old wives’ tales” or folklore, so it was interesting to learn how people used herbs centuries ago. Although she couldn’t possibly touch on every herb and its folklore in that short period of time, she did speak about the most common herbs. I’d like to now share with you some of what I learned.

I took pages and pages of notes during the meeting, writing furiously to…

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