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A Container Garden for Children and The Young At Heart
While growing vegetables is one way to teach children about nature and enchant them with gardening. It’s not the only ...
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Nasturtium Seed Scarification Experiment
I’ve decided to start at the beginning, with sowing the seeds. Nasturtiums have a hard seed coat, and some sources ...
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How to Grow Daylilies On Your Balcony
I used to hate daylilies. The only one I knew was ‘Stella de Oro’ and it is completely over used ...
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Herbs to Grow for Ethnic Cuisines
Raise your hand if you have done this at a garden center: Strolled over to the herb section (after eyeing ...
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Three Edible With Ornamental Plant Combinations That Look & Taste Great
A popular idea at the moment is using edible plants as if they were ornamentals. For example, people who want ...
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How to Grow Nasturtiums in a Container
I’m very excited to be participating in the GROW project. Basically, garden bloggers all over the internet have joined together to ...
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How to Choose Tomato to Grow in Container
Lots o’ people out there are gearing up to plant themselves a good ole fashioned vegetable garden. Or in the ...
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5 Ways to Create an Ugly Balcony Vegetable Garden
With all the hoopla in the garden blogosphere about ugly vegetable gardens, I didn’t want all my container gardening buddies ...
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3 Great Ways to Increase the Amount of Vegetables You Can Grow on a Balcony
I have to forewarn you, these ideas are not pretty. If you read high-end gardening magazines and fantasize about having ...
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Orange & Purple – They Belong Together Like Cookies & Milk
One of my favorite color combinations is orange and purple. I secretly dream (well, not-so-secretly, because I’ve talked about it ...