Container Gardening

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Container Gardening Indoors and Outdoors

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

For years people have been gardening in containers, mostly because they lacked space. For some it was because they lived in climates that wouldn’t allow them to grow year round. Container gardens afford you the option of planting outside until the cold forces the container inside, next to a sunny window. Most container gardens were [...]

The Container Vegetable Garden

Monday, June 27th, 2011

If you live in an apartment or town home, you probably think you dont have enough space to grow vegetables. Lack of space is no longer an excuse since many modern vegetable varieties are perfect for growing in containers on a sunny window ledge or patio. You can grow salad vegetables and herbs in almost [...]

Gardening Tips, Techniques And Plant Information

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Some of the most spectacular gardening is on the rooftops and patios of the world’s largest cities. Today’s homeowners and apartment dwellers do not have to discard gardening. In fact, they can create their own garden hideaway. Gardening in a small space means you plant in containers, choose plants carefully, grow up on trellises instead [...]

Container Gardening

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

One of the most effective ways to save money in your landscape is to engage in the practice of container gardening. Container gardening is making use of different containers to hold your plants. These work for flowers, herbs, and even for vegetables. Container garden requires less maintenance than more conventional flowerbeds and gardens because there [...]

Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Nearly every house and garden presents numerous attractive settings for container plants. Suburban gardens, estates, small city backyards, and summer cottages—all can be enhanced by this type of gardening. A few of the seemingly endless possibilities include entranceways, steps, courtyards, walls, rooftops, balconies, patios, breezeways, lawns, driveways, walks, sundecks, windowsills, porches, summer houses, even tree [...]

What vegetables can be planted in the middle of winter in in the middle of Ireland?

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Would espcially like to plant in a container, ie half barrel. I am just getting into gardening so all help appreciated, as I want to make this my hobby. Thank you

stop freezing water from cracking it's container?

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

my dad has a couple of glass fishtanks in his garden, now the weather is getting cold he’s concerned if they freeze it’ll crack the tank. is there anything that can be done about this? no chemicals please as theres pond plants in them and possibly some other wildlife. i remember something about floating a [...]

Which are the best / easiest plants / flowers / veggies to grow in pots / containers in small ish UK garden th

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

I have a fairly small garden and am hoping to pretty it up a bit with containers and pots. I would welcome any suggestions and tips as to which plants / flowers / veggies are best to grow in pots etc. Thanx in advance

Hi can I keep a magnolia susan in a large container as there is only 6 inches of soil in my garden?

Friday, April 9th, 2010

What depth container do I need for runner beans I was thinking trough shaped. And what spacing between plants.

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

I aint got a garden as in earth . Only decking and patio Is it feasable to grow them in troughs?

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