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Friday Five – Five Fabulous Finds

October 20, 2017Container Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Plant Care & Maintenance, Vegetables

Fall is transition time in the garden. It's time to properly overwinter your containers, harvest fall crops and make your own Hoop House for extending your growing season both this Fall/Winter and next Spring. It's also a time to gain some gardening knowledge and fun facts. Enjoy the season and these five fall finds! How...

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Coleus – Adding Color to Your Garden

May 16, 2017Container Gardening, Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Plants for Shade

Grown for its foliage, Coleus is one of the easiest and most diverse foliage in and out of the garden. Coleus can be used in garden beds, containers, and patio pots and then brought indoors for winter color! Coleus Care in the Garden: Coleus are quite tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions. They...

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Coleus – Color All Season!

May 16, 2017Container Gardening, Flower Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Plants for Shade

When you are looking for color that lasts the season through, think Coleus! Coleus has a long history of use in our gardens as a foliage plant and with new varieties each year, coleus has become an indispensable plant for many gardeners. This member of the mint family comes in a wide range of foliage coloration,...

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Tomato Talk – Let’s Grow This!

May 8, 2017Container Gardening, Planting Tips, Vegetables

Tomato History: Tomatoes wild relatives originated in South America, most likely in the Andes Mountains, but the fruit was not cultivated by the Andean people. Instead, it traveled over 2,000 miles north of its center of origin to Central America where the pre-Mayan people grew and domesticated the plants, naming them xitomatl. Hernán Cortés and...

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Selecting a Container for Container Gardening

February 16, 2017Container Gardening, Planning and Design

Container gardening offers many advantages that can be overlooked: containers can be less work because they can be placed closer to a water source; they offer a smaller soil area to have to weed; they can be placed at a height that can minimize bending for watering and tending; movable containers can “follow the sun”…

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Friday Five – Five Fabulous Finds

Coleus – Adding Color to Your Garden

Coleus – Color All Season!

Tomato Talk – Let’s Grow This!

Selecting a Container for Container Gardening

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