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Growing Apples in Small Spaces: Apple Trees for Tight Gardens & Containers
When space is tight but your apple cravings are big, Fruit Snacks™ Columnar apple trees bring fresh, homegrown flavor to even the smallest landscapes. At 8-10 feet tall but only 2 feet wide, this tree fits perfectly in narrow spots or containers, making harvesting a breeze. Enjoy tasty apples from year one, and watch its pretty blooms transform your garden in spring. Who says small spaces can’t be fruitful? Click the link for the full list of Fruit Snacks™ varieties! ☀️ Zone 4-9
Best Edibles Ready for Harvest Now
These edibles are ready to harvest now! If you've been meaning to start an edible garden, here's some of our tastiest picks that will be table ready (and look good in your garden too!): ❀ Golden Delicious Apple ❀ Little Ragu® Sweet Bay ❀ Brown Turkey Fig ❀ Snow Queen Nectarine
5 Easy Steps for Growing Grapes in Your Own Backyard
Ever daydreamed of picking huge clusters of sun-warmed, juicy grapes from your own backyard vines? Growing grapes is easier than you think. Visit our blog to learn how to grow grapes confidently.
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Difficulty: Easy What's cookin'? You, with these fresh homegrown herbs perfect for soup season. Bonus: a pretty fall planter for your front porch decor. See how to create a container to grow your own herbs like our rosemary topiary and Little Ragu® Bay, then add harvest hues with colorful coneflowers. Plants used: • Tuscan Blue® Rosemary topiary • Roman Beauty Rosemary • Little Ragu® Bay (Monrovia exclusive) • Monrovia coneflower varieties
Figs: Fresh From Your Garden
Best eaten lusciously ripe and sun-warmed straight off the tree, figs can vary in size, shape, flavor, texture, and time of harvest and can be black, green, brown, violet, yellow, or purple. Self-fruitful, so you need only one plant to produce fruit easy to grow, and there’s one for just about every size garden (and several that are quite cold tolerant). Learn how to select, plant, prune, care for, and best of all, harvest figs in your own back yard.
All-American Blueberry Spice Pie Recipe (plus growing tips for fresh berries!)
Find the perfect blueberry pie recipe to have on hand for a true-blue July 4th celebration, picnics, and post-firework snacking. Plus, we share our pro tips for growing your own fresh blueberries for homegrown harvests and treats.
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Grow Strawberries Confidently
Grow your own homegrown harvest of fresh strawberries with our tips! Start here to learn how to plant, water, fertilize, and harvest your own crop of berries. You'll also learn the three types of strawberries and when you can expect each one to bear fruit. Then go our full guide on growing strawberries for even more details and varieties to try.
Make this easy strawberry trifle (plus our tips for homegrown berries)
Sure, strawberry plants can be grown in your garden as a ground cover or border; but it’s most likely that you’re growing them for their oh-so-sweet berries. With that in mind we’re sharing one of our favorite strawberry recipes – Strawberry & Angel Food Cake Trifle. It’s super tasty and super easy to make! Find the recipe along with our craftsman-approved tips for growing your own fresh strawberries in the garden or containers.
Grow a bumper crop of blueberries
Get our pro growing tips for a bountiful blueberry harvest, including how much to water, the best time to prune (and how much), what fertilizer to use, and even tips for protecting your harvest from the birds. It's all in our complete guide to growing blueberries confidently.
Garden Walkway Ideas: Add herbs and edibles
Turn a walkway into a moveable feast with these snack track plant picks. Blueberries and fragrant herbs line a pathway for a welcoming update to the classic kitchen garden. Get our planting plan for an easy weekend project for summer harvests.
Boost your Blueberry Harvest
Get our tips for a bountiful harvest of blueberries this summer! Starting in late winter with our pruning how-tos, you'll learn how to fertilize, water, and care for your blueberry bushes for a bumper crop of juicy berries. Get our complete blueberry care guide (including the right ones to plant for your region) here.
Design with Blueberries for Abundant Beauty
Including blueberry bushes in your garden design not only provides tasty fruit, but also adds beauty and interest. Get design ideas for using blueberry shrubs in your landscape, refine your berry patch with our ideas for combining edible and non-fruiting plants in the garden, and learn how to use the three seasons of interest to create a long-lasting display of abundance.
Blueberries for Three-Season Beauty
Did you know blueberries are one of the most beautiful -- and abundant -- shrubs you can add to your garden? Get tips on growing, designing, and harvesting these three-season beauties from the pros at Monrovia. Our comprehensive blueberry care guide also shares recommendations for the best blueberries to grow in your climate, including warm areas with low chill hours.
Garden Snips and Clips for a Holiday Charcuterie Board
Difficulty: Easy Grow these herbs indoors or out for easy and fragrant ways to dress up a holiday charcuterie board. • Little Ragu® Sweet Bay • Tuscan Blue Rosemary • Mountain Pepper All available from Monrovia at Lowe's Home Improvement or independent garden centers.
Little Ragu® Sweet Bay
Please gardeners and home chefs alike with a gift of Little Ragu® Sweet Bay for an aromatic countertop Christmas tree. The dried leaves add a classic Mediterranean flavor to soups and sauces. Easy-care upright shrub or small tree. Handsome in natural form, or easily clipped into a formal hedge or topiary shape. Thrives in containers. Evergreen. Laurus nobilis 'MonRik' PP #25,915