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Advice for Planting Celery in Self Watering Containers

I’ve learned two lesson to pass along to you about planting celery in containers.

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Urinating on my Tomato Plants

Urine has been coming up more frequently in the news lately. I decided it was time to use some of mine.

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Pepper Plants are Blooming Again

After saying that growing red peppers wasn’t good for small spaces, they’ve started to bloom again and are showing signs of more life.

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Urban Garden Update – Sept 18, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve given overviews on both gardens, so here you go.

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Urban Gardening in Washington DC

Annie from Washington, DC got her urban garden planted. When are you?

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Planting Some Head Lettuce

Since I’ve harvested most of my onions, the container was getting empty. So I planted some head lettuces in it that I’m hoping to last me through the fall.

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Moving my Cucumber Plant for Better Support

Three cucumbers have started to come through on my cucumber plant, so I needed to relocate it to another part of the garden for better support.

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Getting Creative With Cinder Block Gardening

When I was walking around my neighborhood I saw something that really struck my eye. It was a cinder block turned on it’s side with some plants in it.

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I Wouldn’t Recommend Growing Peppers in a Small Space

After harvesting the red peppers on my fire escape, they are not something that I would recommend for growing with limited space.

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Why My Tomatoes Are Blight Resistant

Looking at my cherry tomato plants, they seem to be blight resistant. I have my thoughts as to why.

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Mariann Started a Vegetable Garden How About You?

I received an email from a reader this week, Mariann from Arizona. She’s planted some herbs and vegetables for the first time.

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Stop Reading About Growing a Vegetable Garden and Start Growing One

My old roommate told me to read some books on gardening and stop with all the experimentation. If I would’ve done that, I would’ve gotten overwhelmed with the info, got frustrated and gave up. I’m sure that’s happened to some of you.

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Cherry Tomato Does Not Mean Small Plant

When I was planning my fire escape garden I planted cherry tomatoes thinking the plant would be small and perfect for the small space…not so much.

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No Posts for the Week of August 16

I won’t be posting this week because I’m going to be working on redoing the site to be more user friendly. I’ll resume back to regular posting next week.

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How to Make a Hanging Herb Garden Using Recycled Soda Bottles

After the upside down herb planters failed, I reused the soda bottles and planted herbs out of the top. It doesn’t get greener than that.

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Finding the Best Way to Remove Bolting Vegetables

My lettuces have bolted, so I needed to get them out of the containers to get a new round of plants in. Not sure of the best way to get them out, I decided to experiment with two different ways.

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