Organic Vegetable Gardening Guide
Steps, tutorials, and tips about the basics of easy care organic vegetable gardening, from starting seeds and planting to harvest and beyond.

Want to grow your own food and take control of more of what you put in your body – but want the easiest ways to do it?
Then you’re in the right place!
Easy care vegetable gardening
Here’s where you can find all the steps to planning, designing, starting and growing an easy organic vegetable garden:
- How to design your garden for easy care that sometimes goes against tradition.
- How to start plants from seed so you can control what and when you plant.
- Tips to care for your seedlings and then how to plant them in your garden so they’ll thrive.
- Tips for watering, mulching, weeding, and more.
- Ideas of how you can plan for a fall garden.
Plan your garden for easy care so that you can spend your time doing the fun stuff of gardening (growing and harvesting) and less time with the not-so-fun stuff (weeding!).
How to Use This Guide
Start with the vegetable gardening 101 series below, and then move on to the other tips and techniques you need to grow more with less time. Using these methods is how you can have an easy care garden you love.
Organic Vegetable Gardening 101 Series
- Get Started Gardening: 10 Basic Steps to Start Your Vegetable Garden
- How to Start Seeds – A Step-by Step Tutorial
- Caring for Your Seedlings at Week 1
- Caring for Your Seedlings at Week 6
- Planting Your Seedlings
- Design Your Garden for Easy Care
- Monthly Checklist of Vegetable Garden Chores
- Planning for a Fall Garden
If this sounds good to you and you’d like it all in one place, check out my ebook:

Organic Vegetable Gardening Tips

- Read more about starting plants from seeds, including seed sources, in this guide.
- See the 14 Must-Have Gardening Tools I recommend here.
- This list of 21 Organic Gardening Tips will help you see why organic gardening will save you time and money as well as help the world we live in.
- Here are Five Ways to Save Water (and Time) in Your Garden that pretty much changed my gardening life!
- How To Lay Wood Chip Garden Paths For Weed Suppression
- How To Plant Corn Weed Free (Really!)
- How To Plant A No-Till Garden Bed (or No-Dig) For Less Weeds
- How to Build & Plant a Low Maintenance Raised Garden Bed
- 7 Inexpensive Raised Garden Bed Ideas (Pros and Cons)
If you’d like some help with what to grow, check out:
- The 10 vegetables that will save you money
- 11 vegetables that are easy to grow (plus the 4 I’ve found that really aren’t)
- Vegetable Planting for Fall: What to Grow
Garden Tours

Take a tour of our cottage’s raised bed vegetable garden in July here and our newer farmhouse low-maintenance vegetable garden here to see the potential of the easy care gardening way.
I hope this guide is a helpful resource for you as you plan and grow your own easy care garden!
This series was originally published in 2009 and updated in 2016 and 2026.
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