DIY Mini Gardens

Photo Credit: Knitted Garden

Dan 330 shared this article by Kathy of the Garden Glove website. It really gives new meaning to the idea of small garden ideas.

Mini gardens are very tiny gardens that are very trendy right now. Kathy shares 9 different mini garden ideas. If you see an idea you like, click on the associated link, and you’ll see more information about that garden. There is also a tutorial. Some of these mini gardens are truly amazing. Visit the DIY Mini Gardens link below to see all 9 garden ideas.

DIY Mini Gardens

5 Tips for Growing Tomatoes in Containers

: containergardening.about.com

If you’re thinking of growing tomatoes in containers this summer, this is a really helpful article. Kerry shares her tips for improving your chances of successfully growing tomato plants in containers. She discusses the best containers to use, watering requirements, fertilizers, lighting needs, and how to plant the tomatoes.

One of the tools that Kerry mentions is a sunlight calculator. If you’re new to gardening, a sunlight calculator measures the amount of accumulated light in a given spot in your garden. Then you can match a plant’s light requirements (full sun, partial sun, partial shade, full shade) to the light reading you got from the sunlight calculator.

Since tomatoes need full sun, a sunlight calculator can tell you if the spot you selected will work or not. There are a number of good sunlight calculators. I use the Luster Leaf 1875 Rapitest Suncalc Sunlight Calculator because it’s simple, inexpensive and works well. You can see it on this page at Amazon.

Click on the 5 Tips for Growing Tomatoes in Containers link below to see Kerry’s 5 tips.

5 Tips for Growing Tomatoes in Containers

How to Garden Anywhere ~ 33 Examples

small-space gardening, small garden ideas

sunset.com

This is a terrific slideshow on the Sunset website. It’s really helpful to see photos of different gardening spaces. The article encourages people to make every inch of a small home or space. After each idea there’s a link to information about the gardening method and often there’s a tutorial.

Here are just a few of the ideas:

A Rooftop Garden
On the Patio
On a Tabletop
Air Plants
Up a wall
And more!

Visit the How to Garden Anywhere ~ 33 Examples link below to see all of the small-space gardening ideas.

How to Garden Anywhere ~ 33 Examples

Welcome to Small Garden Ideas

Have you given up on gardening because you live in an apartment or condominium? Maybe you live in the city and don’t see any way to garden there. Do you have a postage stamp backyard. ? Or maybe you have poor soil on your property. Perhaps you can’t get around as well in a backyard garden. These are all reasons why many people give up on gardening.

Well the fact is you can still garden. If you have a patio, balcony, small area of ground, or sunny windowsill, you can garden. Container gardening is perfect for patios and balconies. You can also easily set up a window box in a sunny window. [Read more…]

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