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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. ...

Nasturtium Seed Scarification Experiment

I’ve decided to start at the beginning, with sowing the seeds. Nasturtiums have a hard seed coat, ...

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...

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 e...

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...

How to Grow Nasturtiums in a Container

I’m very excited to be participating in the GROW project. Basically, garden bloggers all over the ...

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....

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 c...

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 fan...

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,...