Sentences with phrase «container vegetable garden»

Finding the right location for placing your container vegetable garden is important, because even with the best soil and the best seed, plants won't thrive without adequate sunlight.

While container vegetable gardening is well suited to growing food in small spaces, it can also be a great addition to any home, as the plants can be located where they will look and grow best (and where they will be the most convenient for care and harvest), and can be used to extend the growing season as the containers can be brought inside on cold nights or during a storm.

Patios, balconies, doorsteps, roofs, and even windowsills can be great locations for container vegetable gardening, either on the ground or by hanging baskets or pots from walls or railings.

A good quality potting soil can make all the difference in container vegetable gardening, as it will be loose and friable enough for optimal root growth, will hold water for longer periods of time than plain ol' dirt from the yard, and will also dry quickly enough (and maintain air spaces within it) to allow the plant's roots to get oxygen.

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We are also teaching our girls how to live sustainably and self - sufficiently by producing some of our own vegetables in our container gardens.

Shongwe and Mahlalela developed a Unique Simplified Hydroponics Method (USHM) to grow vegetables using local waste organic matter as a growing medium and waste cartons as garden containers.

You can plant herbs and vegetables in containers or a small square foot garden.

«Perfect for pots» is suited for container gardens, «Strictly roots» for raised beds and borders, and «Vertical vegetables» is best for smaller urban gardens and balconies.

3) Things like the Hortuba table and the Leopoldo City Vegetable Garden offer space - efficient container gardening for those without a plot in the ground to call their own.

Seth also creates gorgeous container gardens and raised vegetable beds, and is particularly adept at xeriscaping ─ the process of creating water - efficient, striking landscapes that replace those water - hogging grass lawns.

Not only can you use the Ultimate Plant Cage in the ground, but it works in containers and looks like a great tool for soilless vegetable gardening.

It can be turned into a biodegradable pre-seeded garden tile or a disposable food waste container which is biodegradable or vegetable shaped forms to be planted.

The advantages of growing veggies in containers are many, including the ability to use high quality potting soil in the containers (which would be prohibitively expensive to do in a conventional garden), the fact that the plants can be placed in the best sunny (or part shade) location and moved if needed, and because you aren't restricted to planting in the ground, more vegetables can be grown in a small space by planting in containers that can be stacked or hung.

Surprise: you can grow a perfectly respectable vegetable garden (in the ground or in containers) and eat fresh food from your own yard or balcony all summer long.

This property includes drought tolerant landscaping, a large variety of fruit trees, vegetable and herb gardens, several types of berries, rose gardens, a custom designed brick bridge over a dry - rock river, topiaries, arbors, rain collection containers, an automated drip irrigation system and several intimate sitting areas for morning coffee or afternoon cocktails.

(MCT)-- In theory, containers overflowing with flowers, herbs, grasses and vegetables can transform balconies and porches into green and leafy garden retreats.

It's hard to justify rain barrels for major landscapes, but they are quite practical for small vegetable and flower gardens, especially plants grown in containers, according to gardeners.

I found these awesome cedar whiskey barrels at The Home Depot and they are perfect for container vegetable and herb gardening.

My outdoor garden of vegetables and pots and containers of flowers do very well but when I was, yet again, looking at house plants recently my husband kindly suggested the fake variety... my indoor thumb is definitely brown.