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Planting a Container Herb Garden
A container herb garden can be more than functional. It can be beautiful! Here are the plant height ranges and the recommended planting layout for a pot of kitchen herbs.
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Plant Care While on Vacation
Summertime is when people go on vacation. If you have containers and potted plants around the house, learn how to keep them healthy while you are away.
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All About Potting Soil
The right soil is crucial to your plants. Without it they won't thrive and may even die. Here is a look at potting soil and a guide to choosing the right one.
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Choosing Your Plants (Or Pick a Peck of Pickerel)
Lilies and Lotus and Shade OH MY! What can you grow in your pond? Here is some information I've rounded up on choosing plants for your pond. Don't forget to check out the links, both in the article and in the "Links List."
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Container Gardening with Children
Planting containers with children can be a fun time shared with parents as well as a learning experience.
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Container Gardens for Kids
There is room in almost every home for a garden planted in containers--planters, window boxes, or flower pots! Children will be thrilled to grow a planter of flowers.
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Garden Party Time
How to prepare your garden for a summer party
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Gardening ideas: from Philadelphia to southern Ontario
The gardeners of Philadelphia have a lot in common with the gardeners of southern Ontario. On a recent trip, I visited private and public gardens of Philadelphia and came away with ten great gardening ideas that we can do in Ontario.
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Growing Christmas Poinsettias
Poinsettias are a popular gift plant for the Holidays. Find out how to grow yours throughout the year and have your own Christmas plants next year!
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Not Your Grandma's Coleus!!
Stodgy old coleus is sporting a new name and new style as it moves into a starring role in today's gardens.
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Signs of Spring!
Ways to get this year's garden and harvest started for little or no money. Forager's Calendar - what is ready to harvest now. Recipes for stocking up on field garlic, greek garlic and potato dip, and orpine relish.
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Terrariums? Holy Seventies Batman!
Terrariums make great Christmas gifts. They're easy to make and easy to care for.
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What To Do With Pansies and Violas
Grow pansies and violas to attract butterflies, grow near cool season vegetables, fill in early container gardens or as edible flowers garnishing salads.
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Growing Apple Trees as Container Plants
Growing apple trees as container plants can reduce garden pests and disease and improve edible apple crops. Here's how to start growing apples in container gardens.
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All America Selections Plant Winners for 2008
The All-America Selections plant winners of 2008 has been published. Here is an easy to grow vegetable eggplant, a cool season viola or white osteospermum to try.
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Best Plants for Fall Gardens and Containers
Crisp air and bold leaf color beg for rich, beautiful fall flowers. But how do you choose, whether for fabulous containers or great ground plantings?
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Fruit Seed Potted Plants
This article gives directions for planting a small windowsill garden from fruit seeds.
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Herb Garden in Pots
Culinary herbs can be grown right outside your kitchen door. Pots can be moved to enhance sunlight exposure and they can be moved to protect plants from weather.
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners
With all the bad news this year, people desperately need connections with friends and family. During the holidays, family traditions can be very comforting. Carefully selected gifts are a customary part of the season. For many families, gathering around the Christmas tree on Christmas morning to open the presents has become a custom.
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How to Harvest the Same Vegetable Multiple Times
Growing vegetables which can be harvested more than once is like winning the fresh vegetable lottery.
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Moisture Balance
Choose the right plant and container to work with your lifestyle and environment.
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Vine Time in the Garden
Add vertical height and interest to your garden with a few annual vines. Construct a pole for vines in your garden for a dramatic focal point, or make your vines mobile by planting them in a container.
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Cascading and Trailing Annuals
Top six annual plant selections for weeping growth habit that adds lovely growth to containers, hanging baskets, raised beds, mixed borders, rock gardens and more.
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Saving Plant Seeds
Helpful advice for the begining seed saver on which plants to start with and how best to harvest, prepare and save the seeds.
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Small and Miniature Daylilies by Grace Stamile
Small and miniature Hemerocallis hybrids by Grace Stamile are excellent for daylily gardens in backyard spaces. These petite flowers add bold colors to containers.
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Links to Feng Shui Gardening
Container gardening can play an important role in the design of both indoor and outdoor living spaces. Ironically, most of the websites devoted to this ancient art of placement are poorly designed, and tend to focus on the power of Feng Shui to sell books, chimes and consulting services. But I managed to wade through the mess and find some balance.
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Potpourri to Attract Pretty Butterflies!
Butterflies are already migrating north from their southern overwintering habitats. A brand new generation will soon be seeking nectar for energy and host plants on which to lay their fragile eggs. Plant a potpourri of nectar and host plants early to attract them to your garden.
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Colorful Containers
There is never a bad time to fill a container with colorful plants to give the garden a fresh look. Today's article is full of ideas and tips for Colorful Containers.
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Grow a Garden On Your Windowsill
Being an urban gardener doesn't mean you can't have a lush garden. With an accommodating windowsill and the right containers, you can grow a wide variety of plants!
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Have an Explosion of Pinks in your Garden
Grow this cheerful flower in your garden or in containers for a brilliant profusion of pinks and reds.
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Mistakes Made Container Gardening
When container gardening remember plant spacing and maintenance, such as regular watering and deadheading flowers, are necessary for a healthy potted garden.
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Right Livelihood II
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Starting A Kitchen Garden
Gas prices are up and so are food prices, but you can save money by growing vegetables yourself, at home, in containers ranging from terracotta planters to old boots.
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Ten Health Remedies from Your Backyard
Most people enjoy discovering natural remedies that can help common ailments - natural solutions for relief of cold symptoms, sore throat, and indigestion, for example.
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Annual Plants With Attractive Foliage
All these annual plants are grown for their beautiful foliage, rather than bright flowers, and add an extra dimension of interest to the garden.
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Arachis
Native to South America, the leguminous genus Arachis is once again being brought into the limelight by the Florida Nurseryman Growers Association Florida Plants Of The Year Program.
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Bedding Plants for Summer Gardens
Brighten up summer gardens with bedding plants. They are ideal for spectacular color displays or as container plants. Check out Salvia, Geraniums, Violas and many more.
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Bulbs for Containers
Bulbs are a great way to add accent and color to mixed containers to increase the drama and impact. See some favorite bulb plants for baskets, pots and planters.
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Caladium Bulb Plant Profile
Caladiums are one of the most popular foliage plants for adding color to shade gardens. See how to grow favorite caladium bulbs in your garden.
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Coffee Can Planter Project
This simple and fun coffee can planter project will result in unique and attractive containers for the back yard, deck or balcony garden.
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Container Kitchen Herb Garden
It's easy to grow a container herb garden with kitchen herbs that you frequently use. But to be successful, you must know the basics of what herbs need to thrive.
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Easy Gardening
Enjoy gardening without all the back-breaking work.
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Fashionable Fall Gardens
Complement and coordinate your personal fall wardrobe with designer purples from plants grown in the garden.
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Fertilizers for Container Gardens
Plants in container gardens need fertilizers to thrive while growing. Fertilizers that contain nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium are good for growing healthy plants.
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Garden Containers
Container gardening ideas begin with the vessel. When choosing garden containers consider what is needed to water container plants.
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Growing Tomato Plants
Growing tomato plants in a container garden is an excellent way to make use of limited space or supplies, producing many varieties of delicious fruit.
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Growing Vegetables in Containers
You don't even have to have a small patio to grow vegetables. A front stairway stoop will even work for a container garden.
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How to Plant Tomato
I've added gardening tips that turn a simple article on "How to Plant Tomato" into an article on building better root systems and support systems to increase yield...
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P. Allen Smith: Garden Color Part 1
P. Allen Smith, Color in the Garden, part 1
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Peanuts Are Exotic Plants
Peanuts, famous for being grown in the south, can be a star of your garden even if you live in a cool climate. For those in zone 8B to 11, there is a perennial variety.
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