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Container Gardening
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| How to Grow your own Vegetables at Home |
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Container gardening has recently become a modern trend in city gardening. Container gardening is the solution to limited space or no access to a big garden to grow your own vegetables, herbs or flowers. Here is a quick and easy way to get a container gardening system up and running to suit your limited requirements and lifestyle. This will ensure that you can have fresh flowers or produce on hand at your convenience.
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To get started you will need a deep or wide container, depending on what you want to grow and how much space you have.
- Medium sized stones and small pebbles to help with drainage.
- A good source of potting soil and/ or compost.
- Once you have the containers, stones, pebbles and compost, you can begin to arrange them in preparation for planting.
- Remember that you can use vertical space. Utilize hanging baskets and wall fixtures to maximize the space you have available.
- Now you are ready to begin selecting the flowers, herbs or veggies you would like to grow in your container garden.
- You may want to grow some of the plants from seed yourself or simply get seedling from a local nursery.
- A good range of vegetable seedlings with shallow roots that can be grown in containers include lettuce, spinach, radish, carrots, onion, cherry tomatoes, beans and peas.
- Peas and climbing beans need to be staked. When selecting stakes for peas, make sure that they are branched, as peas do not like to grow on straight up poles.
- Another idea for home-grown container food is to grow sunflower sprouts. You cover a few seeds with your compost mix, lightly water the area and in a few days, there will be succulent sprouts, ready to be cut for salad. You can repeat this process weekly.
- To shake things up, try a selection of culinary herbs to supplement the vegetables.
- A variety of herbs that would thrive in pots and include parsley, chives, garlic chives, fennel, mint, thyme, creeping thyme, oregano and marjoram.
- In twenty-one days you can be eating radish, and the other crops follow along shortly afterwards.
- A good selection of flower seedlings that can be grown in containers include begonia, chrysanthemum, daffodil, geranium, impatiens, marigold, pansy, petunia, snapdragon and tulips.
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Prepare a delicious salad utilizing
the ingredients from your container garden:
1 fresh lettuce, shredded
1 fresh onion, sliced
2 sprigs of parsley, shredded
1 small bunch of garlic chives
2 sliced radish
1 handful of chickpea sprouts
4 sliced baby carrots
1 handful cherry tomatoes
Add all the ingredients together. Drizzle with lemon juice and olive oil. Add your favorite spices. Toss.
Tuck in and feel revitalized.
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| Author's Bio
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"Have you ever tried to encapsulate yourself in a few words.I will do my best and hope you don't come out as dizzy as me. I am mother, , writer, organic gardener, permaculture consultant, yoga teacher, freelance journalist and editor. a student of the universe. As a rampaging farmer and mother during the 90's, I got involved with environmental and permaculture projects in South Africa, I learned about rural life. spiders, cows, snakes and all. My 21st century focus is on communicating knowledge and sharing my art. Take a look at my book, Family Organic Garden, an easy and simple way to eating organic food straight from your own garden. " - Jeannine Davidoff |
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Featured Artist Jeannine D
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