Container gardening

7 Tips to avoid crowding your small space

Gardening in small spaces creates many challenges. For plant lovers, one challenge is crowding our love into our space. What are the challenges to maintaining small space gardens? If you live in a condo or apartment with no yard space, how can you enjoy your plants? Here are seven ideas and tips to grow your garden in your small space and avoid crowding.

Emma's Garden Corner

Growing gardens in small spaces: The story of Emma’s Garden Corner

Emma’s Garden Corner began as a love to create gardens in small spaces. Busy people with small budgets need inspiration and ideas and tools to make their small gardens grow. At Emma’s Garden Corner, how-to videos and articles, tips and ideas, and everything in between are shared with the beginner gardener. How did Emma’s Garden Corner grow?

Container gardening

Marigolds—A natural insect repellent?

Marigolds are a hearty flower which are credited with being a natural insect repellent. Marigolds can be planted in the ground, used as garden borders, and planted in window boxes and pots for container gardening. They can even ward off pesky squirrels. How can you grow marigolds? And how are marigolds thought of as a natural pest repellent?