Dear urban gardener.
As I rebuild this website, I’ll be adding specific tips for the urban (or small suburban) garden. I’ll show you how to garden in small spaces or containers and get decent success.
As such, this page is a bit “ugly” at the moment as I rebuild my website (long story)
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- 6 Butterfly Garden Design Rules These are the easiest and most important things you can do to attract butterflies to your garden Photo by Justin DoCanto on Unsplash Do Not Use Pesticides The first thing to understand is that butterflies are the adult form of caterpillars. So in order to get the butterflies you have to encourage the first stage of their development — caterpillars. Spraying with chemicals to prevent ...
- Questions and Answers About Potted Tulips Practical bulb growing tips to keep that urban garden looking good Long-lasting potted tulips (and other bulbs such as potted daffodils, crocus, and hyacinths) will last a lot longer if you follow these directions: Buy potted tulips in as young a stage as you can find with buds just formed but not even fully emerged. Watching them grow ...
- 5 Kinds of Privacy Landscaping From fast and easy to more permanent solutions for your private garden When it comes to privacy landscaping, there are several options to provide for those private moments you don’t want to share. Angeles Balaguer At Pixabay 1: Annual Vines The first and quickest option is the annual flower trellis or fence. Using something like a morning glory, you can screen off an ...
- Container Vegetable Gardening? Do These Five Things Do these five things properly and you’ll get a good harvest. There are only five variables that you have to worry about to be a success at container vegetable gardening. And isn’t it nice that it’s this easy? 🙂 Our back porch container garden with a double string trained tomato plant #1 Pot size This is one place where ...
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Raised Bed Gardens Raised bed gardens have their supporters, that’s for sure. Here’s the deal from my point of view gathered over 30 years in the nursery industry. I’m not going to sugar-coat this article because I know there are a lot of folks who really think raised beds are the greatest thing since sliced bread. In many ways, ...
- DIY Pressure Treated Wood For Raised Garden Beds Here’s how to make your own cheap pressure-treated wood for basic gardening raised bed projects. A friend, who happens to be a technical paint expert and I were chatting over coffee one day about some diy garden construction I was about to take on (building a lot of raised beds) Rather than using chemical laden pressure ...
Container Gardening
- Container Vegetable Gardening? Do These Five Things Do these five things properly and you’ll get a good harvest. There are only five variables that you have to worry about to be a success at container vegetable gardening. And isn’t it nice that it’s this easy? 🙂 Our back porch container garden with a double string trained tomato plant #1 Pot size This is one place where ...
