Container Gardening

To celebrate the beginning of gardening season, we recently posted a series on starting your own container garden. We decided to ask our other gardening experts – you, dear readers – for your secrets. Here are some of the best...

You can create a container garden with little space or budget – we shared how to find the best spot, types of containers and how to choose soil & plants. Now, we’ll share a few tips to have you gardening like...

You can create a container garden with little space or budget – we shared how to find the best spot and types of containers. In this Part II of our Start a Container Garden Series: we’ll share how to choose soil...

If you dream of having a garden of your own but have limited space and cash, you can create a container garden that fits space you do have available. But where do you begin? You find everything you need from...

If you haven't started seedlings yet for your spring & summer crops, it's time to get started. First thing: which potting mix should you choose? Although Miracle-Gro tends to dominate Home Depot & conventional 'home' stores, you may be supporting a scary brand. Miracle-gro has fertilizers and synthetic chemicals, criticized for not improving soil over the long term but instead leaching unnatural chemicals into streams and ponds. (Find out more, after the jump!)

Is your city garden a complete urban oasis? The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) is now accepting applications for the 2012 City Gardens Contest. You can enter in either

Don't frown urbanites. Even if you don't have grass in your city property limits, you can still grow your own food this season. I started planting seeds for the first harvest of my container garden last week.  Obviously I didn't inherit my dad's gardening skills regardless of my DNA, so it has taken some experimentation over the past 2 years.  (I was an Urban Dummy just a short time ago!)  Here's the basics if you're considering to plant this season.