6 Essential Gardening Tools for Beginners, Best Flowers for a Vegetable Garden, Grow Lingonberries, and Basil-Potato Frittata

Start growing good food at home with daily advice, tips, and tricks from gardeners like you. [FGN Daily]( February 7, 2024 Enjoy this newsletter? Please forward it to your friends [2024 Garden Planning Calendar Kit]( [FREE for You Now: Printable 2024 Garden Planning Calendar Kit!]( Download this kit when you join the Food Gardening Network Gold Club: - Plan your 2024 food garden today! - Never miss an important task. - Be inspired to plan, plant, and enjoy! - Covers every month of 2024! [Read More ...]( Vegetable Gardening [The Best Flowers for a Vegetable Garden to Attract Pollinators and Deter Pests]( [Article 1]( To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery alone won’t do, If bees are few. When Emily Dickinson wrote this poem in the mid-1800s, she may or may not have been thinking about flowers for a vegetable garden. There’s really no way to say. She is, however, absolutely correct in that without bees and other pollinators, we would have a lot fewer fruits and vegetables in this world. [Read More...](  [Cranberries]( [Your Guide to Homegrown Cranberries]( Learn how to grow these tart, bright berries at home – without the bog! No bog needed! They grow on dry land just like your blueberries or raspberries. In fact, both blueberries and raspberries are great companion plants for cranberries. [Read More ...](  Growing Fruits & Berries [How to Grow Lingonberries and 3 Ways to Use Them]( [Article 2]( Whenever I hear about lingonberries, I’m teleported to the scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the O.G. film with Gene Wilder) where the kids are licking wallpaper. The snozzberries taste like snozzberries! Wallpaper licking aside, for some folks like me the lingonberry is a bit more on the fringe than the more popular cranberry or [blueberry](. [Read More...](  [Magazine]( [February 2024 Issue Available Now!]( Get in-depth articles and videos, including our feature article about "How to Grow an Authentic Italian Garden", "How to Make Organic DIY Seed Tape" and savor the flavors of a classic Italian dish with our recipe for "Hearty Winter Cacciatore." Two bonuses include our “Italian Food Garden Planning Kit” and “33 Weekend Projects You Can Do At Home!” Plus, enjoy spotlights on how to grow and cook with basil, bell peppers, and cauliflower! [Read More ...](  Featured Weekly Video [6 Essential Gardening Tools for Beginners to Buy in February]( [Article 3]( Now that it’s February, we’re only a hop skip and a jump until the tulips start springing up where I live in the Northeast, the fragrant sign that winter is finally over. But by the time they’re in bloom, most of the gardening supply stores, including the farmers co-op down the street from me, are sold out of the most essential gardening tools, or at least any specific ones that I want. [Read More...]( [Basil]( [The Basil Grower's Gardening Guide Available Now!]( Basil is one of the most essential herbs and can be found in just about every kitchen. With The Basil Grower's Gardening Guide, you’ll have everything you need to know about growing and enjoying this versatile herb. [Read More ...](  Premium Recipe of the Day [Basil-Potato Frittata]( [Recipe]( Breakfast takes on a whole new meaning—and flavor—with this fantastic Basil-Potato Frittata! Eggs, potatoes, and herbs—combined in a unique way to deliver a tasty all-in-one meal. 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