Fall and Winter Gardening: 25 Organic Vegetables to Plant and Grow for Late Season Food

Top Gardening Selection. New for Fall 2012! This short booklet is a complete guide to growing organic vegetables for a fall and winter garden. It explains which vegetables can survive in cold weather and how to grow them. Recommended for backyard gardeners and container gardeners who want to grow food for fresh eating all year round. Written by the author of the best-selling Fresh Food From Small Spaces gardening book, a former columnist for Urban Farm magazine. Topics Include● Introduction to Late Season Vegetable Gardening● 25 Vegetables for Cool Seasons● Starting Vegetables From Seed● When to Plant in Your Area● […]

How to Plant Gardening Containers Or Gardening Pots In Your Container Garden

When you are ready to mix ingredients for your container garden, be sure the soil is damp and workable. To determine this, take a handful, squeeze it and allow it to drop. If water comes out, it is too wet; if it breaks apart, it is too dry. But if the lump of soil retains its shape or cracks just a little when it is dropped, it is in good condition to work into your gardening pots. Be certain your garden containers are clean when you start. Soak used or new clay gardening pots overnight so they will not draw […]

Plant Flower Bulbs For Beautiful Container Gardening

As a group,flower bulbs are outstanding plants—colorful, showy, and generally easy to grow for container gardening. Many have evergreen foliage; with others, the leaves ripen after flowering and the bulbs are stored and started again, year after year. Some flower bulbs are hardy, others, tender, though what is, and is not hardy, in a particular area is a matter of winter temperature averages. In cold regions, tender types—tuberous begonias, gloxinias, and calla lilies—can be treated like summer in container gardens. This gives the gardener a wide variety to grow from earliest spring to late fall. Dutch flower bulbs include crocus, […]