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Rooftop Challenges

Ellen Spector Platt shares her experience with rooftop gardening in the big city. A rooftop container garden can be an oasis in an urban environment, but this type of gardening presents some unique challenges. But raised planters filled with herbs and flowers bring gardening to the big city and create a space for neighbors to enjoy.

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Rosemary--Abundant, Long-lived, and Flavorful

A must for any herb garden, a rosemary plant gives you a fresh herb that is easy to snip and makes a flavorful addition to any meal. Rosemary plants will grow in containers or beds, and they are evergreen in some zones.

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Save Money Growing Vegetables and Herbs

Looking for ways to save on your household bills? Growing a vegetable garden or herb garden saves money and trips to the grocery store. These plant varieties, including tomatoes and specialty peppers, offer maximum savings.

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Select a Good Site

Select a good site

When planning your garden, make sure your garden site has these three essentials. Picking the right place to plant your herb or vegetable garden is an important part of gardening.

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Smart Compost Shopping

Beautiful dark soil perfect for planting. Compost provides your garden with rich, organic material to help your plants grow. If you want to add to your garden soil or get your compost pile started, these four types of store-bought compost can help.

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So What Happens During a Freeze?

Learn how a freeze affects your fall vegetable garden and what to do when one happens. You can protect your plants, especially during early freezes, and still look forward to a full harvest.

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Soil: It’s Alive!

Garden soil teems with life. Learn how to encourage the unseen creatures underfoot, and you’ll grow your best garden ever. Learn about the soil food web.

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Summer Herb Harvest Tips

In summer herb gardeners get a delicious payoff for all our efforts. Oddly enough, this is where some gardeners become timid, unsure what to do next because the plants are so full and beautiful, you hardly want to trim them. However, here is a little advice for clipping with confidence.

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Super Easy 4 x 8 Raised Bed

This 4- by 8-foot raised bed is a snap to make from 3 8-foot boards that you can have cut to size at the store. To build it, all you do is screw the boards together at the corners.

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Surgery for Squash Vine Borers

When squash vines suddenly collapse, it’s may be the work of squash vine borers. You can read about them in our pest ID section. If you find that borers are at work, here is a last ditch technique to perhaps save your plants.

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Rooftop Challenges

Rosemary--Abundant, Long-lived, and Flavorful

Save Money Growing Vegetables and Herbs

Select a Good Site

Smart Compost Shopping

So What Happens During a Freeze?

Soil: It’s Alive!

Summer Herb Harvest Tips

Super Easy 4 x 8 Raised Bed

Surgery for Squash Vine Borers

How to Grow Bonnie's Herbs and Vegetables

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