Articles for tag: Container Growing, Gardening Books, Gardening in Containers

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The Best 5 Container Gardening Books

Anyone can have a container garden. It doesn’t matter if you’re in an apartment, if you don’t have a backyard or not. Containers accent any space – your kitchen, the porch, the window sill or your Florida room. Here are some books specializing on different aspects of container gardening. Bountiful Container: How to Create Container ...

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Patio Gardening in Containers

More and more of us are moving into homes without a lot of sprawling real estate. The reasons may include: 1)lower monthly mortgage payment, 2) property less costly to maintain, or 3) it requires less upkeep. Many families live happily in urban condos, lofts or apartments. Even single family homes today have smaller yards and ...

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The Basics of Herb Gardening in Containers

Herbs are the easiest types of plants to grow in containers. You can grow herbs in your kitchen, bay window, on your patio, or as a supplemental in your garden. Basic Container Requirements First off the container needs to be large enough for the herbs you are growing. The minimal size of a pot or ...

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Tips to Help Container Plants Survive the Winter

Gardening in containers is popular throughout the growing seasons, but can become a challenge during the winter months. It depends on where you live, but extra precautions sometimes need to be taken in the winter months to help container plants survive the cold. The temperature of soils in containers during the winter can fluctuate much ...