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Building a Raised Garden Bed
You can save money by building your own raised garden bed. These can be used for flowers and even for vegetables. They are gaining in popularity because they are easy and inexpensive to build, making them practical parts of the landscape....
Edible Flowers in Your Garden
Flowers can be an integral part of cooking. While most of us are aware that violets can be candied and nasturtiums can be eaten in salads, there's a bounty of flower varieties that are both edible and delicious.
Satisfying Your Sweet Tooth with...
Greenhouse Buying Guide - Basics Of Choosing A Greenhouse
When choosing a new greenhouse for your garden there are several things to bear in mind if you are going to get the most from your choice. A wrong decision can prove costly in the long run so be sure you know exactly what you need before you buy....
Interior Design for Cat Owners
Interior Decorating for Cat Owners –
Part 1: Protecting your possessions
The first thing a cat owner should know about home décor is to keep it simple. Cats are completely convinced that they are in charge, that the house and its possessions...
Let There Be Light in Your Bedroom!
Let There Be Light in Your Bedroom! By Parvati Markus
Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, and then the
light slowly starts returning to the northern hemisphere. But
that still means we have many months of the year when...
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Container Gardening: Urban Alternative for Plant Lovers
Gardening fanatics, with no space for a garden, like apartment
dwellers and those in shared housing, can be assured gardening
is not inevitably gone from their lives. You can always build a
container garden on a balcony, patio, deck, or sunny window. Not
only the joy of flowers but vegetables and some fruits can be
grown. You can raise perennials, annuals, and even shrubs and
small trees all in a container.
Container gardening can present it's own set of challenges. It
requires proper planning just like any other kind of gardening.
You'll need to find your USDA zone (to identify plants suitable
for your zone), see how much daylight you get in your apartment
or balcony, and from there you can select the best plant
variety.
When buying plants be prudent and choose ones with a healthy
appearance and good natural shape. Trunks should be straight.
Stay away from plants with twisted, slanted or deformed stems,
which can affect the healthy growth of a plant. Try to buy your
plants from the local nursery unless you have the right
conditions to raise seedlings indoors.
For your container, glazed
ceramic pots with drainage holes are
a good choice. Terracotta pots are nice looking, true, but dry
out quickly and leave your plants without moisture. Wooden
containers are good, but can be susceptible to rot. Cedar and
redwood are fairly rot resistant and make nice containers but
make sure the wood is not treated with creosote or other toxic
materials that can damage the plants.
Although you in general don't want to keep your container garden
plants outside when the temperature dips below 45° F, there are
plants that are frost resistant for colder climates. Eulalia
grasses, Mexican feather grass, Cornflowers, Lavender cottons,
Jasmine, Million bells, and Stonecrops, stand up to the frost
well.
If you follow these few suggestions you will be off to a good
start with your new minature garden creation.
About the author:
Isabelle Boulay writes for www.OnlineTips.org, where you can
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