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Beginners Guide to Vegetable Gardening
Ready to start your own vegetable garden? Learn the basics of planning, caring, growing, planting, and harvesting. Gardening benefits your health, connects you to nature, and saves you money.

Tips for Earlier Yields in the Home Vegetable Garden
Home gardeners can achieve earlier harvests using season extension techniques like early-maturing varieties, transplants, black plastic mulch, hot tents, Wall-O-Waters, and floating row covers.

Caring for Valentine's Day Plants
Find resources on all the cut flowers and plants you might give your sweetheart on Valentine's Day!

Fruit Crop Cold Hardiness Zones: The Dream and the Reality
Cold hardiness of fruit trees varies. Several factors make the winter survival of plants like 'Reliance' peaches uncertain and despite being cold hardy, can still suffer bud and tree damage in Iowa's coldest temperatures.

17th Annual Day of Insects at Iowa State University's Reiman Gardens
This year marks the 17th annual "Day of Insects" (DOI) at Reiman Gardens on March 29th. DOI is a day filled with 15 presentations covering a wide range of insect-related topics. DOI has something for everyone interested in or involved with insects!
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Growing Amaryllis
Amaryllis are popular flowering bulbs grown indoors during the winter months. Learn how easy it is to plant an amaryllis bulb and how to care for it as it grows.
Yard and Garden News
Wild-harvested Mushroom Certification Class Set for Spring
Yard and Garden: Caring for Sansevieria
Monarch and Pollinator Habitat Workshop Series to Be Held in February and March
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Garden Variety Podcast
Whether you're a master gardener, just getting started or somewhere in between — there's always something new to learn in your garden.