While there’s nothing like an abundant harvest to make a gardener feel super successful, I find a mountain of zucchini in August less useful than a year-round supply of nutritious, edible leaves provided by a cut-and-come-again edible garden plants using container gardening. Best of all, a snip-able bounty grown in containers can be kept in partial shade to discourage … [Read more...] about 4 quick-snip edible plants for containers
Container gardening
My Garden Containers app
Garden Making provides the My Garden Containers app so you can enjoy gorgeous containers in your entranceway or on your porch, patio or balcony. My Garden Containers helps you create stunning plant combinations for beautiful containers by giving you the confidence to mix and match plants using design techniques practiced by professionals. You can photograph and document your … [Read more...] about My Garden Containers app
9 fabulous edibles for kitchen garden
I'm always amazed by how much food I harvest ongoingly from our patio planters. I pop back and forth from kitchen to garden throughout the summer to pick strawberries, blueberries, currants — even figs and apples — from a cluster of terracotta pots outside the back door. And thanks to the slipper-friendly gravel leading to it, I don’t even need to bother putting on shoes when I … [Read more...] about 9 fabulous edibles for kitchen garden
Dwarf ‘Beni-hime’ Japanese maple perfect for container
This spring, I chanced upon some dwarf Japanese maples, and Acer palmatum ‘Beni-hime’ found its way into my nursery cart. ‘Beni-hime’ grows painstakingly slow, no more than two inches (5 cm) a year, eventually forming a dense, spreading mound about 40 x 40 inches (1 x 1 m) in size. However, when planted in a container, it doesn’t reach its potential size, and stays at 24 x 24 … [Read more...] about Dwarf ‘Beni-hime’ Japanese maple perfect for container
Sun-proofing containers
When it's hot and sunny, I try to fall back on the guidelines for container plants in stressful circumstances, clustering them together to form a microclimate, and frequently misting with a fine hose nozzle to temporarily cool foliage. I sometimes cut back stems to ease stress on root systems unable to adequately service limp leaves. What also makes a difference is mulching … [Read more...] about Sun-proofing containers
