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.

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?

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Basic container gardening made simple

Container gardening is great for ones who have small spaces and little time to maintain plants. It also allows us more freedom to be creative with our gardening. If you are planning on container gardening for the first time or would like some ideas to improve your skills, here are six tips.

Container gardening

Growing container strawberries

“Over the fence—Strawberries— grow—Over the fence—I could climb— if I tried, I know—Berries are nice!"Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickenson Can there be anything more exciting than seeing baby seedlings crying out to be cared for and planted? That happened to me this year. And back in April, strawberry plants outside my local… Continue reading Growing container strawberries