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Growing Tomatoes
Home grown tomatoes taste fantastic and are easy to grow in pots or a spare patch of garden bed. Follow these steps for sweet, juicy fruits you can truly call your own.
How to Grow a Balcony Garden
Apartment dwellers can grow and enjoy beautiful balcony gardens by learning how to utilize their limited space effectively.
Patio Gardening
Just about any plant can be grown on a patio or balcony in a container, with the right care and conditions - including shrubbery.
Put Some Spring in Your Sleep!
As the last few months of winter wane, spring is in everyone's minds. Garden expert P. Allen Smith demonstrates some easy ways to bring a spring garden inside.
Potted Gardens and Paradise Found Reviewed
Potted Gardens: A Fresh Approach to Container Gardens and Paradise Found: Gardening In Unlikely Places written by Rebecca Cole, especially for urban gardeners.
Growing Coleus Collections by Propagation
Plant propagation is an easy way to save coleus plants over winter. Growing coleus indoors, from plant cuttings, builds the garden.
Hydroponic Gardening Beats Food Crisis
Hydroponic gardening is indoor growing with simulated natural environments to suit your particular plant choices: spinach, tomatoes, jalapenos, and the list continues.
Coleus by Ray Rogers (Book Review)
Coleus: Rainbow Foliage For Containers and Gardens by Ray Rogers, expert plantsman and garden writer, is a comprehensive book about coleus plants.
Choose From Many Types of Coleus
Choose the type of coleus that will thrive in part shade or part sun. Whether called Solenostemon or coleus, these plants grow easily indoors or outside in gardens.
How to Grow Coleus Plants
Learn how to grow coleus as a houseplant or in summer annual in planting beds. Solenostemon is a tropical low maintenance foliage plant, a good choice for any gardener.
Indoor Container Gardening
Want to garden but don't have the space outside? Try planting inside and see what you can grow!
Planning an Evergreen Patio
Make best use of the available space with an evergreen patio. For year round appeal consider such green shrubs as Skimmia, Photinia Red Robin, Pieris and many more.