If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you know that I love trying to grow bell peppers in containers. I started trying it…
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Category: Container Gardening
How to Keep Squirrels Out of Your Garden
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you are growing vegetables, you will end up searching for tips on how to keep squirrels out…
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Summer Container Gardening: June Tomato Update
Summer container gardening is a delicate balance between getting your veggies enough sun to thrive while protecting the more delicate varieties from blazing heat. I’d…
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Spring Container Gardening: Successes and Failures So Far
My spring container gardening plan involved succession planting of lettuce and/or Swiss chard, herbs, and bell peppers. I also wanted to plant some early tomatoes…
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Add Succession Planting to Your Spring Garden
Succession planting is officially a part of our spring gardening plans. Why? I am notorious for getting so excited about receiving new seeds, planting a…
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Chaos Gardening Sprouts Wild Joy
I am a new convert to chaos gardening. I used to follow a much more rigid set of rules about what could be planted where…
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Buying Nothing on Prime Day
I was ready to make a big purchase on Prime Day. One of those couches was going to be mine, and I was going to…
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Growing Potatoes in Containers: The Harvest
Growing potatoes in containers can be fun, relatively easy, and inexpensive. Don’t have a large plot of land to plant seed potatoes in the ground?…
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Seed Potatoes – Growing in Late Spring in SoCal
I’ve been staring at a catalog of seed potatoes for months. I feel like I’ve seen every variety of organic seed potatoes, and I’ve fallen…
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Growing Sugar Snap Peas in a Hanging Basket
I was obsessed with growing sugar snap peas in container gardens in 2022. They were the perfect late fall crop, and we had an excellent…
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