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How to Attract Bug-Eating Birds To Your Urban Garden
There are lots of good reasons to welcome birds into your garden, but here’s one more: they eat a whole ...
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Fall Vegetable Container Garden Plan
A comment that Margaret Roach once made has stuck with me for awhile. To paraphrase, Margaret mentioned that gardening is often not ...
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Not Everything You’re Growing in your Kitchen Container Garden is Edible
Reading this humorous article by Michael Tortorello reminded me that it’s not safe to indiscriminately snack on the plants you’re growing on ...
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How to Grow Peppers in a Container
I’ve been growing peppers for the first time this year and I’m proud to say that in a matter of ...
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Varieties of Tomato You Can Still Plant (in June)
Here are some varieties of tomatoes that mature in 60 days or less, which means that most parts of the ...
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Plants That Every Balcony Gardener Needs
Note that I said “need.” While all the plants listed below are attractive, the reason they made this list is ...
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DIY Umbrella Stand + Flower Pot
When researching ideas for a client, I came across several articles on how to make a flower pot umbrella stand. ...
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How to Grow an Olive Tree in a Container
Growing olive trees (holy land or domestically grown varieties) definitely falls into the category of delayed gratification. That being said, like ...
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Dealing With Pests In a Container Garden: Squirrels
Last month I started a new series on dealing with pests in container gardens. First up was one of the ...
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How to Grow Corn in a Container
When I asked you all for your best tips for gardening kids, several people mentioned that their kids were really ...
