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Home gardening is our main focus. Our mission is to provide you with the finest quality home gardening “How to Grow” information for growing plants, gardening tips, and trivia. So, we’ve got you covered for growing all of your favorite plants. While you enjoy the holidays, certainly winter gardening is on your mind. We’ve got you covered there, too. As a matter of fact, our guide sheets cover everything from seed starting to growing plants, harvesting, storing, and eating the flowers, fruits, herbs, and vegetables of your labor. And, we strive to provide you with the information you need, when you need it, to grow better home and garden plants!

Without a doubt, avid gardeners are engaged in this wonderful and relaxing hobby every month of the year. For example, in December we turn our attention to indoor houseplants. Additionally, we also highlight the plants and flowers of the season. Yes, winter gardening is fun, indeed!

All of us at The Gardener’s Network wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year!!

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To provide the finest quality home gardening tips, growing information, trivia and garden resources, from seed starting to growing, harvesting, storing and eating the flowers, fruits, herbs, and vegetables of our gardening labor.

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Winter Home Gardening at its Finest

Gardeners await the holidays with eager anticipation. Our Christmas list contains many garden-related items. If you have been good, Santa may put some seeds, or an Electronic Soil Tester, in your stocking. If you've been really good, maybe he will give you the composter, greenhouse, or raised bed that you've been wishing for.

Poinsettias Everywhere

They are a colorful symbol of the holiday season. Poinsettias are in stores, restaurants, churches, and your home. Known for their attractive red and green foliage, they are widely used in Christmas floral displays. And, they are great holiday gifts. With just a little care, their bright blooms last well beyond the holidays.

Growing and Caring for Poinsettias

Poinsettia Day

Selecting The Perfect Tree

There’s nothing better than the smell and look of a live Christmas tree. Selecting a fresh, healthy tree is as important as it’s appearance. Keeping it fresh for al long as possible, is equally important. Before you head out to the Christmas tree farm or your favorite corner tree lot, be sure to check out our tips and suggestions.

Review the basics of selecting and caring for Christmas trees.

What variety of tree meets your vision of the perfect Christmas tree?

Avid Gardeners Turn To...

Home winter gardening focuses upon Houseplants during the long winter months. Lovingly tending indoor houseplants allows us to continue to enjoy our beloved hobby all winter long. Give your plants a dose of fertilizer and water now, before the holiday season captures all your attention.

More about houseplant care and maintenance.

The Old Farmer's Almanac

The Old Farmer’s Almanac is loaded with gardening information and predictions for the year. It’s a great holiday gift for home gardeners. The Farmer’s Almanac has assisted home gardeners since it was first published in 1818. That’s right, over 200 years!

Buy Old Farmer's Almanac - tops on the home gardener's wish list.

About the Old Farmer's Almanac

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Monthly Gardening Tips

There’s always something exciting going on each month in our gardening world. We generously sprinkle garden tips and suggestions throughout our website. And, we offer monthly tips focused upon garden ideas you can use each month. While you’re here, grab a tip or two for this month. It focuses on fun and exciting winter gardening activities.

Monthly Gardening Tips

Organic Gardening Is Growing Healthy

You grow your own herbs and vegetables, to produce healthier food for you and your family. Even if you're not an organic gardening purist, there are a lot of easy-to-use organic gardening tips to make the food you grow and eat even healthier for you!

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Organic Gardening Is Growing Healthy

You grow your own herbs and vegetables, to produce healthier food for you and your family. Even if you're not an organic gardening purist, there are a lot of easy to use organic gardening tips to make the food you eat even healthier for you!

More on Organic Gardening

Winterizing Shrubs & Trees

Even hardy trees and shrubs can suffer winter damage. Winter poses many dangers to the health and appearance of your evergreen trees and shrubs. They include heavy snow and ice damage, sun scald, damage from road salt, marauding deer and other animals, and more. Learn the most common problems, and how to prevent damage to your plants.

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Winterizing Shrubs & Trees

December's Featured Plants and Home Gardening Articles

Home Gardening All Winter Long with Houseplants

Winter Gardening for Better Homes and Gardens

In addition to growing and caring for your houseplants, there are many other gardening activities to keep you busy during the long and cold winter months. There are gardening activities you can do in both homes and gardens. And the list of activities is larger than you might think.

For example, you can grow a variety of herbs indoors. Planning next year's garden is a fun task. Also, you can start your seed search. And don't forget to do a seed germination test for the seeds you saved from last season.

Forcing Bulbs Indoors

Potted Bulbs are Great Holiday Gifts

Planting and then forcing flower bulbs to bloom indoors is a great winter gardening activity. All you need is a flowerpot, potting soil, and a few leftover flower bulbs. Surely, this is a great December project.

Potted flower bulbs are a great holiday gift idea for just about anyone. Imagine the recipient watching the flowers bloom while a snowstorm rages outside the picture window. As a result, winter goes by a little faster.

Winter Composting

Practice Composting 365 days of the year!

Yes, you certainly can and should practice organic composting right through the winter months. There are a number of methods you can employ to store or even make compost in the dead of winter. So, don't let ANY rich compostable material go into the waste stream.

Therefore, learn how to compost during the winter months.

Winter Home Gardening with Aloe Vera

Attractive Plant, Soothing Aloe

Aloe Vera is a wonderful plant to grow inside of your home. It is attractive and easy to grow. And, if you ever burn a hand or a finger on the stove or while ironing, the sap inside of the leaves provides quick and soothing relief.

Did You Know? The gel inside of aloe leaves is edible! So, in case you get hungry....

Today's Deep Thought:

"Gardeners know the best dirt."

Celebrate Your Gardening Hobby

There are many days to celebrate our gardening hobby. Among them:

December 1 - Eat a Red Apple Day

December 12 is Poinsettia Day

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On The Light Side:

Passing the Fruitcake

Re-gift it and pass it around, but don't get stuck with it.

The Fruitcake Recipe

You mean people actually make these things!? Find a recipe.

Gardening Holidays

We all love our home gardening hobby. And there are plenty of holidays to celebrate it!

Greeting Cards

Send a free Ecard to a friend or family member for just about any event.

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All in all, you will find our website is a place for home gardeners to learn about our beloved hobby, ask questions about growing plants, and contribute tips and ideas. And enjoy a little humor, too.

We hope you enjoy your visit to our website and come back often. And, tell your gardening friends, too!