If you're looking for something to add zest to your garden as well as your meal, you cannot go wrong with edible flowers. You might even be growing some of these flowers already and had no idea they were edible! This is a huge list of my favorite plants that bloom their heads off and add beauty and flavor to drinks, desserts, and other dishes.| Garden Betty
Organic mulches are the foundation of every healthy garden, and they have many benefits over other ground covers like rubber or pea gravel. Almost anything can be labeled as a mulch, so how do you know which one to use? And where? Let's break down my 12 favorite options for vegetable gardens, flower beds, and landscapes.| Garden Betty
Cover cropping usually means growing a crop after your last harvest and returning it to the soil for its soil-building benefits. But you don't have to give up your veggie bed completely: these six edible cover crops are not only good for the garden, they're delicious too.| Garden Betty
Cover cropping is the farmer's "secret" for fertilizing and aerating soil naturally, but the practice of growing beneficial crops closely together can easily be done in a home garden. If you want to give your soil a nutrient boost while harvesting a delicious vegetable all season long, try growing Austrian winter peas.| Garden Betty
What should you fill your garden beds with? Not all soil is created equal, and if you were thinking you'd just buy bags from the store, read this first. It's always worth investing in soil for the future health of your plants! Learn what constitutes the ideal soil mix for raised beds, where to find it, and how to build up fertility without fertilizer.| Garden Betty