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Gutter Gardens – A Great Way to Grow Lots of Stuff in a Very Small Space
Remember Shawn? The guy with the windy, part-sun, zone 5 balcony?Well, he recently emailed me about these gutter gardens he saw on Life Hacker. ...
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Hummingbird Container Recipe
This is a great time of year to talk about hummingbirds, as the members of the species that migrate north ...
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How to Grow Tillandsia Indoors
Those tacky little air plants glued onto magnets and stuck on refrigerators everywhere during the 1980s are making a comeback. ...
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Sound Advice About Noise Reduction On Your Balcony
Apartment/condo living means living thisclose to your neighbor. It often means hearing all sorts of things from your neighbor’s unit ...
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How to Water Your Plants While You’re Away From Home
My husband’s and my 6th wedding anniversary is coming up at the end of August and we’re planning on visiting ...
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An Insider’s Perspective on Community Gardens
No doubt all of us living in apartments, condos and on small lots have done the same arithmetic when it ...
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Calendula Herbal Salve-ation Recipe
Earlier I mentioned that I had rediscovered a great article in an old issue of Vegetarian Times about herbs that have healing properties. ...
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Calendula and Bacopa Window Box
I was flipping through an old issue of Vegetarian Times magazine and came across an article about herbs that have ...
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Dwarf Fruit Trees Perfect for the Apartment Garden
If you live in an area with a relatively mild winter, you can plant fruit trees in late Summer and ...
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Dealing With Pests In a Container Garden: Aphids
I don’t have any science to back this up, but I think container grown plants are more susceptible to aphids ...
