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Container growing takes less time than conventional gardening. ■ You control growing conditions such as soil, water, sunlight and nutrients. ■ It doesn't require much money or tools. ■ All vegetables are just as easy to grow in containers as in the garden.

Reap benefits of container gardening

Recognizing the growing interest in container gardening, vegetable seed catalogs and websites are giving more space to varieties selected for container culture. For example, the cover of this year’s catalog from The Cook’s Garden features ...

Expand your vegetable garden with containers

Limited gardening space? Consider mini-gardening and/or container vegetable gardening. All you really need is a spot that gets at least 6 hours of sunlight and a few square feet. Window boxes and movable containers can be used for growing vegetables.

Lauderdale: Starting a vegetable garden

If they decide on a vegetable garden, they should be encouraged to share the vegetables ... remove the outer covering and place in a container filled with potting soil, pointed side up and about one third of the pit above soil. Keep the soil moist and ...

Garden Q&A: Introduce your children to gardening

Applications for all types of vegetable gardens, such as a container garden if you live in a city, or a vegetable garden located in your neighborhood or at your school, will be considered. Applicants must be between the ages of 9 and 16 as of ...

Press Release: Katie’s Krops offers grant to young gardeners

Vegetable gardening can be as simple and fun as growing a hanging ... A Tumbling Tom tomato trailing over the rim of a container will thrill as much as a blooming Supertunia and provide tasty produce, too. In larger containers, lettuces such as Red Sails ...

Big vegetable taste in small containers

Fortified vegetables W. Atlee Burpee and Co. CEO George Ball ... Power Pops tomatoes with more lycopene. They are excellent for container gardens. » Solar Power tomatoes with three times the level of beta-carotene. » Sweet Heat peppers with ...

Signs of Spring: Seed catalogs offer latest in flowers, vegetables

Renee's Garden: vegetable and herb seeds ... offer rare and hard-to-find plants, such as the container-grown Fukushu kumquat on its cover. Inside, the catalog profiles 68 new plants, including staghorn fern on volcanic rock; Bienvenue hibiscus ...

Garden catalogs tempt us with new or unusual flowers and plants

This is the perfect complement to an urban-style garden. Buckingham is also ideal for containers. Most container gardeners have never ... one squash variety that will give you enough fresh vegetables to eat and yet allow for freezing or canning ...