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Grow herbs, vegetables, and flowers on your patio or even inside your home.  No matter where you live, there is always room to grow. 

Container Gardening-- Making Your Patio a Paradise.

 

 

Container gardening is a great way to grow your favorite plants.  Herbs, vegetables, and flowers can all be grown in containers with the right materials and a little know-how. 

In addition to traditional "houseplants" like philodendrons and potted cacti, indoor container gardeners can enjoy fresh herbs year around and have flowers blooming in the winter.  With the right equipment, it is even possible to grow veggies indoors. 

For gardeners with limited outdoor space, containers provide a means to make a balcony or patio into a real garden, complete with peas, beans, and tomatoes as well as herbs and flowers. 

This zone is a collection of articles and resources to help you start and maintain a beautiful, productive container garden.  Whether you are a novice gardener or a veteran grower looking for new ideas, this is the place to go for inspiration.

Creative Gardening

  • Plants are the perfect indoor accessory, as long as you choose plants that will thrive in your home and learn how to care for them.  Isabel Sacks explains how to keep your indoor plants healthy and use them to enhance your home. Houseplants can make an instant impact in any room, especially if well chosen [...]
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  • With Mothers’ Day just around the corner, it’s time to find that perfect gift.  If your mom, wife, or grandmother has a green thumb, then you can bet there are a few gardening-related items on her wish list.  Helium writers share their thoughts on great gift ideas for the gardening mom: “Let no one think [...]
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Finding Seeds for Container Gardening


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Starting plants from seed is both cost effective and satisfying.  However, not all of the plants you can grow from seed are ideal for container gardening.  Luckily, the website ContainerSeeds.com has a selection of seeds especially chosen for container gardeners.  Choose from fruits, herbs, vegetables, edible flowers, and more.  The site also has a nice selection of articles to read as well as recipes and gardening tips.


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by Susan Klatz Beal

Unfortunately, it doesn't stand to reason that all plants that grow in the ground are well suited to containers. Sometimes, practicality makes this impossible. For the last 4 1/2 years, I've had such ...More>
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Making a Container Garden


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by Maggie O'Leary

An indoor container garden of vegetables or flowers is fairly inexpensive to get started. If you keep your garden inside, your plants will produce year-round, and the garden will pay for itself. Growi...More>
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Although there are specific tomato varieties that are designed for container growing, that doesn't mean that it isn't possible to grow almost any type of tomato in a container. Tomatoes can grow just ...More>
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Container Gardening Photos: Flowers


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Almost any container with holes in the bottom can be used for a planter. If you have a container you like the appearance of but cannot punch holes in, you can always line it with a smaller container ...More>
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Potting soils are sold everywhere. As soon as the weather starts to warm up, retailers start stocking their gardening gear and supplies. Potting soil will appear on the shelves right next to pots and ...More>
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Comments (1 to 8 of 8)

Peta Ealing Cameron
Mar 09, 10 at 08:20 AM
Fantastic Zone Therresa,
It has given me some tips with the design of my own zone I am just putting together called Healthy fresh food choices.
Glory Lennon
Oct 17, 09 at 03:02 AM
Lovely Zone T.Rose. Adore the photos. But you should get a thumbnail.
Amanda Dcosta
May 23, 09 at 03:59 PM
Theresa... simply beautiful! Nice creative page! Mandy
Sheila Rae Watson
May 22, 09 at 06:27 PM
Teresa... I have planted tomatoes, chili peppers, carrots, radishes and zucchini in containers on my patio this year and found the advice in this zone most helpful and informative! Good job!
Susan Klatz Beal
Apr 11, 09 at 06:03 PM
Thank you, Ethel. I linked Green Fingers to my writing portfolio as well! I am a big time container gardener.
Ethel Smith
Apr 11, 09 at 07:17 AM
I will link this to my green fingers gardening as container gardening often as to be the choice these days. Lots of useful info.
Susan Klatz Beal
Apr 11, 09 at 02:07 AM
Thanks bunches, Jim! Raven is the genius behind most of it.....But we knew that there was a wealth of great information we could use to showcase a completely different side of gardening!
Jim Bessey
Apr 09, 09 at 11:02 PM
Fantastic! What a great page, Theresa. I'll bet if I follow all the advice you offer here, even I could be a green thumb gardener. Well done!

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