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Burpee Home Gardening Tips - How to Grow Vegetable Seeds and Plants, Flowers, Perennials,Herbs, and Fruits.

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New to Gardening?

There's a gardener in everyone just waiting to sprout. But how do you start?

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Seed Starting Basics

Winter is a fun time of year for gardeners. We get to browse seed catalogs and web sites and dream of bountiful gardens with never a thought for inconvenient truths like digging or weeding.

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Cut Flower Basics

Use our tips and tricks to have the most beautiful cut flowers for your own arrangements. Start by using flowers that have just opened and include buds as well.

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Gardening Tip of the Day

Have you put a bird feeder received as a Christmas gift out and have yet to see a single feathered friend visit? There could be a number of reasons for this, most obviously that it is new. Birds are more likely to visit a new feeder during the colder months - January to March in most regions - but it may take several weeks before the birds are comfortable with a new feeder. Other factors are where you placed the feeder and the type of food provided. Feeders placed near shrubbery or too close to the ground do not provide enough of a comfort zone, as birds will fear attacks from predators. Good quality food is also key. Buy the best and nature will take care of the rest.

Fordhook Farm

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Fordhook Farm
Doylestown, PA

At Fordhook Farm in Doylestown PA, the historical farm of the Burpee Company, we have a diversity of gardens; mature woodlots with understory shade Perennial gardens, full sun Annual and Perennial gardens, Ornamental gardens with sun and shade, Container gardens, and of course, Vegetable gardens in field rows and in raised beds.  Read more about Fordhook Farm.

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Gardening Tip of the Day

  • Have you put a bird feeder received as a Christmas gift out and have yet to see a single feathered friend visit? There could be a number of reasons for this, most obviously that it is new. Birds are more likely to visit a new feeder during the colder months - January to March in most regions - but it may take several weeks before the birds are comfortable with a new feeder. Other factors are where you placed the feeder and the type of food provided. Feeders placed near shrubbery or too close to the ground do not provide enough of a comfort zone, as birds will fear attacks from predators. Good quality food is also key. Buy the best and nature will take care of the rest.