5 Easy Small Vegetable Garden Ideas to Try

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There are some really neat small vegetable garden ideas in this article. If you see an option you like, click on the link for more details.
There’s one option that is perfect for indoor gardening, even during the winter. It’s a commercial product, but I think you could make a less expensive DIY version.

In addition to indoor gardening, here are some other ideas you’ll find:

Vertical Gardening Ideas
Square Foot Gardening
Container Gardening (I love the portable containers!)
Windowsill Plant Boxes

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5 Easy Small Vegetable Garden Ideas to Try

How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles

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Japanese Beetles can have a devastating effect on a garden. They especially like to eat roses, apples, peaches, plums and berries, but in a pinch they’ll eat anything in a garden.

In this article, the Herb Gardener explains why Japanese Beetles are proliferating, how Japanese Beetles scout for feeding grounds, and how to get rid of them. He also includes a nice list of plants that Japanese Beetles hate. For example, mint, chives, leeks, tansy, and white chrysanthemums cause Japanese Beetles to detour around your garden.

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How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles

53 Favorite Backyard Projects

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If you’re looking for inspiration and tutorials for backyard projects to tackle this summer, this article could help you! Sunset has collected 53 different backyard projects. Some would work well in smaller spaces.

There’s a wide variety of DIY projects: fun, gardening, furniture, decorative, landscaping and more. If you see a project you like, click on the picture for a more detailed description. You’ll also see a link to a tutorial.

Here are just a few of the projects:

Lay a Flagstone Path
One-Pot Vegetable Garden
Wavy Picnic Table Project
Small-Space Salad Box
Votive Chandelier
Party Umbrella
Shed Roof Birdhouse
DIY Garden Swing
Green-Roofed Bird Feeders
DIY Fountain
And MORE!

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53 Favorite Backyard Projects

How to Make a Strawberry Pallet Planter (Includes a Video!)

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Tanya wrote a blog post last year about how to make a strawberry planter out of a wooden pallet. I featured the article because I loved both the repurposing of the wood and the wonderfully clean look of the final planter.

Well now Tanya has added a terrific DIY video that shows each step of building a strawberry planter with pallet wood. It takes approximately 2 hours to build. She also explains which type of pallets and tools to use. It’s a really helpful video.

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How to Make a Strawberry Pallet Planter (Includes a Video!)

5 Easy Vegetables to Plant With Your Kids

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Doña first explains how she has included her daughter in the gardening process in her home. When her daughter was 2, she showed her how to plant carrot seeds, nurture them, harvest them and then decide how to eat them.

Gardening with your kids is time well-spent. They learn how to plan and work in the garden. It helps them to understand where a part of the food they eat comes from. They work in the dirt which most kids love. And it gives you the opportunity as a parent to share quality time with your kids.

Doña shares 5 different vegetables that are fun and easy for kids to grow. Click on the 5 Easy Vegetables to Plant With Your Kids below to read the entire article.

5 Easy Vegetables to Plant With Your Kids

Miniature Garden Bulbs for Small-Space Gardens

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If you have a small-space garden, or want to plant bulbs in containers, these tiny garden bulbs are just the ticket. They’re also easy to grow. Mr Brown Thumb lists 6 different miniature bulbs you can find at local nurseries or garden stores. Here are a couple:

Species Tulip provide Spring color but with smaller flowers & foliage

Crocuses that are vibrant in color !

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Miniature Garden Bulbs for Small-Space Gardens

21+ Stunning DIY Greenhouses You Can Make for Your Gardening

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If you have any space at all in your backyard, you can build a greenhouse. It allows you to start seeds and grow plants in a controlled environment with a lot of focused light. This article features 21+ different greenhouses that you can build yourself. If you see a design that you like, just click on the link under the picture and you’ll get the details for that greenhouse.

There are:

Basic Wooden Box Greenhouses (I like this one)
A $50 Greenhouse
A Storm Window Greenhouse
A Flea Market Greenhouse (Beautiful!)
Barn-Style Greenhouse
And MORE!!

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21+ Stunning DIY Greenhouses You Can Make for Your Gardening

How to Grow a Low-Maintenance Perennial Garden on a Budget!

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In this article, Courtenay explains how she and her husband began the process of growing a low-maintenance perennial garden on a budget. She always provides good information and has a great sense of humor 🙂

Among other things, she explores:

Where and when to buy cheap plants
Which plants should you get?
Aside from buying plants, where else can you get perennials for your garden?

She also has some thoughts on landscaping fabric, which is used to kill weeds. I’ve always thought landscaping fabric was more trouble than it was worth. Planting new flowers or veggies after the fact is more cumbersome. You have to slit through the fabric to the dirt below. I’ve also heard that it seems to discourage earthworms (not good). Landscape fabric is also made from petroleum products. All in all I’d rather have dirt to dig in and use traditional methods to control weeds.

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How to Grow a Low-Maintenance Perennial Garden on a Budget!

How to Make A Raised Bed Garden in a Small Garden Space

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Melanie has a friend who has extremely limited garden space, but wanted to grow tomatoes. So Melanie built her raised bed garden boxes. There are so many advantages to this type of gardening. You control the quality of the soil and keep many garden pests at bay. The height of the beds is perfect – no bending or kneeling.

I thought this was a great inspiration piece. If you’d like to buy the plans for these raised garden boxes, Melanie has a “Buy the Plans” button top right.

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How to Make a Raised Bed Garden in a Small Garden Space

28 Small Urban Garden Ideas

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This article is an inspiration piece. It shares 28 different small urban gardens. Some are very modern while others are traditional. Some are small while others look pretty expansive.

I loved #27 because of all of the container plants and # 28 because of the water feature. Photo 29 demonstrates a neat vertical gardening approach. #38 looks like a place I’d like to come home to after a long, hard day. #50 is a truly impressive container garden. I also love the pond in #51.

To navigate through all of the garden photographs look for navigation arrows at the top right and left of each page.

I enjoyed looking through all of the small space gardens and picking out features I’d like to try myself. Click on the 28 Small Urban Garden Ideas link below to see all of the ideas.

28 Small Urban Garden Ideas

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