Read more about the article Wordless Wednesday: Celebrating Freedom
Red Creole onions came out small this year, but still plentiful.

Wordless Wednesday: Celebrating Freedom

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We garden as an act of freedom. Our founding fathers gardened for sustenance. Whether we grow our own food for survival or to enjoy beauty around us, we are free to do it in our backyards, front yards, parkways (thanks to folks like Ron Finley) and community gardens. Let's celebrate our food independence with pictures of the abundance. Enjoy your summer garden and the freedom it brings. Share some of your favorite "independence" veggies and fruits below.

Read more about the article Recipe: Baked Parmesan Zucchini for 4th of July
The finished product is sweet and savory, tender-crisp and delicious.

Recipe: Baked Parmesan Zucchini for 4th of July

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Happy 4th of July! Are you sick of zucchini yet? Here at Gardenerd we strive to find new ways to use zucchini, many of which hide the ubiquitous fruit well. This is not one of those recipes. This one features zucchini in all its glory. Baked Parmesan Zucchini. We featured this recipe on last week's Tip of the Week podcast, but here's the real deal to back it up. They're tender-crisp and great for eating while outside in the garden…

Read more about the article Ask Gardenerd: Squash Vine Borers
Acorn squash (or maybe not?) flowers and sets fruit.

Ask Gardenerd: Squash Vine Borers

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A troubling question came into Ask Gardenerd this week from Jennifer: "I'm a new gardener (4 years), and EVERY SINGLE YEAR, vine borers eat my zucchini plants. But I keep planting them because they are my favorite!! None of my friends have this problem. I don't understand. I've moved them in the garden, planted marigolds, used DE, used foil at the bases, done "surgery" on my plants...and nothing works. Every June they all die and I am devastated. What else…

Read more about the article Essential Plants for a Great Butterfly Garden
A swallowtail butterfly on a ‘Red Riding Hood’ Penstemon.

Essential Plants for a Great Butterfly Garden

Continue ReadingEssential Plants for a Great Butterfly Garden

Today's post is from guest blogger Randy Schultz from American Meadows. Butterflies need our help and in this article he suggests plants that provide habitat for these beautiful creatures. Take it away Randy: Essential Plants for a Great Butterfly Garden Everyone loves butterflies. These delightful insects are like flying flowers, adding color and movement everywhere they go. Unfortunately, these beautiful insects are in trouble. The populations of many species, including the monarch butterfly, are dwindling due to shrinking habitat. But…

400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success

New 400+ Tips Gardening Book for Summer!

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We're pleased to announce the arrival of 400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success: A Decade of Tricks, Tools, Recipes, and Resources from Gardenerd.com. It's been ten years in the making and we're launching it on June 20th, just in time for Summer Solstice. Many of you have read our Tip of the Week on the website, and listened to the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Each week we list a helpful link to more information about that week's tip.…

Read more about the article Recipe: Blackberry Jam
The recipe makes about 2 pints

Recipe: Blackberry Jam

Continue ReadingRecipe: Blackberry Jam

Blackberry season comes on strong, and if you don't embrace it, your garden will have an understory of rotten blackberries within a month. We've already frozen 3 pints of berries, and made blackberry ice cream. We're still picking 2 cups a day. Next up: jam. This recipe we found on The Easy Homestead uses no pectin and no cane sugar. It uses  honey (which we have in abundance at the moment, thank you, bees) and half an apple instead. I…

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