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.

raised bed garden with straw potatoes

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

If this sounds good to you and you’d like it all in one place, check out my ebook:

Vegetable Gardening The Easy Way EBOOK Opt-in

Organic Vegetable Gardening Tips

raised bed of lettuce and chard

If you’d like some help with what to grow, check out:

Garden Tours

Garden Tour- Vegetable garden entry

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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