Dressing Up Your Small Garden with Container Plants
April 28, 2010 in Gardening
Plants are important to make your apartment feel like home. What do you consider when choosing your plants for a container garden?
Read more...How to Design Your Small Container Garden
April 26, 2010 in Gardening
If you live in an apartment or condo and your gardening space is small, you can still grow citrus trees, flowers, shrubs, herbs, vegetables, and vines with special planning.
Read more...Cake Stand Greenhouse
May 17, 2009 in Gardening
I thought I would try to grow some plants from seeds. I don’t have a little greenhouse, but this pretty cake stand is doing the trick. Maybe I like that it combines two of my favorite things: gardening and dessert.
Read more...Year of Composting
March 16, 2009 in Gardening
A year ago I decided that I wanted to try composting. I loved the idea of turning discards into desirable plant food. A worm compost bin can be kept small enough to have inside an apartment.
Read more...Plant Pests: Bugs in Disguise
June 30, 2008 in Gardening
I have high hopes every spring when I bring home new plants. My new plants usually look bright and green. By the end of the summer, though, some of them are ready to just give up. That’s ok. At least I’ve learned a little more than I knew before. This summer I’ve been learning about [...]
Read more...Plant Therapy: Leafhoppers
June 27, 2008 in Gardening
The benefit of organic gardening is that you don’t spray toxic insecticides on plants you’re going to eat. The challenge is paying attention to your plants to prevent problems before they get bigger.
I noticed a bug was attracted to my basil plant. First there was only one or two, but then there started to be [...]
The Compost Results
June 23, 2008 in Gardening
Three months ago I started a project to learn how to compost. Many of the skills I want to learn how to do (like beekeeping and raising chickens) will have to wait until we have a house and some land. Composting on the other hand, is something I can do right now in [...]
Read more...Herb Parade
April 26, 2008 in Gardening
I figured if the Dervaes family can grow their urban homestead on a 1/5 acre city lot, then I could probably fit a few more herbs on my patio. As if I needed a reason to have more plants. It’s getting a little bit crowded out there.
Garlic chives
Chocolate mint. I need to find a good [...]
Read more...Maintaining the Compost Bin
April 26, 2008 in Gardening
After the first month, it was time to do some maintenance on the worm compost bin. I also learned the important difference between worm tea and leachate.
Read more...The Oleander Bloom
April 24, 2008 in Gardening
This is the first bloom of the season from the oleander on my patio. As soon as I wrote this post title I thought of Orlando Bloom, but back to topic. This pretty plant came home with me at the end of last summer. It was a risk, because it meant I had to [...]
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