150+ Gardening Blog Post Ideas & Topics [2024]

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Looking to write a new blog post but experiencing some writer's block?

Coming up with new blog post ideas and topics can be time-consuming and daunting.

What's even more challenging is coming up with a great content idea - one that will bring you the right traffic and resonate across your audience.

Writing a great blog post can take hours, days, and sometimes even weeks, so it’s critical that you do your research to ensure your post will reach your intended audience.

This post provides you with creative blog post ideas to help spark some ideas for your next article.

Additionally, we provide you with proven tips and strategies on how to find the right blog post topic for your gardening business.

Gardening Blog Post Topics & Categories

Here are a few of the most popular Gardening blog post categories and topics to write about:

Square Foot Gardening
Flower Garden
Container Gardening
Fruit Gardening
DIY Planters
Vegetable Garden
Herb Gardening
House Plants
Garden Art
Garden Lighting

Different Blog Post Types For Your Gardening Business

Below we provide you with various content types and topic ideas for your gardening business.

How-To Guides
List Based Content
Interview Content
Additional Blog Post Ideas

How-To-Guides

How-to guides are a great way to share your insight and knowledge with your audience.

If you are able to provide answers to a person's search, they will likely click on your article and stay on your site for a period of time.

The more value and answers you bring to your reader, the more they are likely to return to your site and become a customer.

How-To-Guide Example

Ipsy, the glam subscription bag business has an entire how-to-guide tutorial page on their website.

Here's a great example of one of the blog posts they did on: The Beginner’s Guide to Applying Makeup, According to a Makeup Artist:

Check out the full post here

How To Guide Blog Post Ideas For Your Gardening Business

Here's a list of how-to-guides you can create for your gardening business

How to improve drainage in your lawn.
How to Grow Herbs Indoors.
Best Drought Tolerant Perennials for Your Flower Garden.
How To Plan a Square Foot Garden.
Things to remember when mowing your lawn.
How-To-Post About Something In Your Niche
Share How A Famous Person Does Something In The Gardening Business niche
How To Use A Specific Gardening Business Tool
How-To Objection Post.
How does your product compare to other products?
A day in the life of a gardening business
How you trained and hired a team for your gardening business
Gardening Business history and evolution over time
What do you recommend your customers do in the first few weeks of using your product?
How do you schedule your work week?
How do you work while traveling?
Write about the lessons you learned from your gardening business
What keeps you creative?
How do you reach your target audience?
What keywords bring the most traffic to your gardening business?
Create infographics about your gardening business and any data you've collected
What is a problem that your target customer has?
Write a guide on how to save a few hours of work a week
What type of work do you try to accomplish while traveling on an airplane?
What helps you to be creative with your gardening business?
Have you changed the way you work over the years? If so, how?
Walk your audience through a process, step by step?
What are some questions that people should be asking you, but aren’t?
If someone was about to start a gardening business, what are the top things they should know?
What do you want to learn more about? Study it, and share what you learned.
What are some terms in your gardening business that need explaining?
How to deal with bad days
How to get a job in the gardening business industry.

List Based Content

Lists are a great way to consolidate information and provide your user with an easy-to-read blog post.

For those that want a quick answer or don’t have time to read a long article, this is a great way to get your point across and answer your searchers query.

Lists are a great way to build traffic for your blog posts, and they are often quick to write. It’s a win-win!

List Based Content Example

BRIDES, a wedding, fashion and beauty blog provides a list of 67 Wedding Makeup Ideas for Every Kind of Bride.

This is the perfect example of the list-based content-type:

Numbered list with ideas
Short descriptions
Photos for context

Read the full article here

List-Based Blog Post Ideas For Your gardening business

Here's are some list-based post ideas you can create:

10 Non-Toxic Indoor Plants for Those with Pets.
Time Saving Tips for Vegetable Gardeners.
10 Best Vegetables to Grow in Your Container Garden.
Top 5 DIY Garden Trellises.
7 Ways to Style Your Vegetable Garden.
15 best gardening business in 2021
Share your top tips and tricks for productivity
Hottest trends in gardening business industry right now.
Write a list of FAQ's for your gardening business
Put together a list of GIFs related to your gardening business
Find the best jokes about gardening business and share them in a list based article
Use 5 words to describe your gardening business and product
What are the best books for your gardening business that you reccomend?
What skills should someone have that wants to start or work for a gardening business?
Creative quotes related to starting/growing a gardening business
If you recently hired someone, what questions helped you the most in making your decision?
Create a helpful checklist for customers.
What blogs do you keep up with? Create a list.
Create a list of the top 10 things you wish you knew when you started.
What are your aspirations for the week, month, and year?
Any important insights that you have learned in the past year?
What type of things do you review to determine quality in your industry?
Have you thought about sharing a list of top influencers to follow in your industry?
A Curated List of Links Around One Theme
10 Things You Need to Know About gardening business
Gardening Business gift guides
gardening business Youtubers everyone should watch

Interview Content

Why not have an industry expert write a piece of content for you, rather than writing it yourself?

Interviews are a great way to get ** user-generated content** for your site - and oftentimes, they will generate quality traffic and interest.

Not only will your audience read this content, but the audience of your interviewee will also read and share this content.

Interviews are a great way to add value to your business while mixing up your blogging style.

Interview Content Example

Beauty Crew has an entire section on their site just for interviews.

Check out their blog here

Interview Content Ideas For Your Gardening Business

How you keep your lawn fertilize?
What are the tools do you use for landscaping?
What do you prevent your flowers from dying?
How do you keep your lawn healthy in colder weather?
What are the Landscaping problems that you completely avoid?
Interview a team member
Pitch an influencer to guest post on your blog
Do A Q&A interview with your team
Use questions on forums as blog post ideas
Interview an influencer or thought leader for your blog
Send out a poll, survey or quiz filled with questions.
Reach out to industry leaders and combine their quotes into a blog post
Reach out to a friends business to see if they'll do a "swap" blog post
Reach out to multiple experts for their thoughts on a specific subject
Host An AMA with a gardening business influencer
Have an influencer or thought leader takeover Social Media
Interview a counterpart over the phone
Go live with another influencer on IG or Tik-Tok

Guide: How To Find Content Ideas

Finding the right content type and topic for your blog is critical. The last thing you want is to spend hours and days writing a piece of content that doesn’t end up performing well.

We’ve outlined tips to help you find the right blog post topic

1. Find Blog Post Topics Using Google

Google search is a great (and free) tool for finding a content type and topic.

You can actually use google autocomplete to see what people are searching for:

2. Find Blog Post Ideas Through Competitors and Useful Websites

A great way to find content types is by seeing what your competitors with similar audiences are doing.

There are a few different ways you can do this:

Manually going through different websites to see what others are writing about
Use a tool like ahrefs to see top-performing websites and topics

3. Find Content Ideas Using Google Search Console

Google search console is a great and free way to see what your audience is searching for:

4. Make Sure You Can Perform Well For The Content

Just because your audience is searching for something, doesn’t always mean you can win for that content.

Consider looking at existing search results and other top-performing websites. Then, ask yourself a few questions:

Are these top-performing sites massive businesses? If so, what would it take to rank for something like this?
Is the existing content in the search results good quality?
Are there ways that I can improve this content type? (ie. adding photos, videos, optimizing keywords, making the posts longer and more valuable to the reader, etc)

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Pat Walls

I'm Pat Walls and I created Starter Story - a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. We interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started and grew their businesses.

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