One of the most popular ways to grow tomatoes these days is to grow them upside down using a hanging tomato planter like the topsy turvey tomato planter, which was invented by the folks at Felknor Ventures. They have a couple of tomato growing solutions, which also include the Tomato Tree which holds up to three tomato plants. Well, this time they came out with a hanging strawberry planter, many folks refer to this as the Topsy Turvy Strawberry Planter, but it’s marketed as the Strawberry Bag. This is because it’s a similar concept, but the rights to market it have been sold so the Topsy Turvy company doesn’t sell it.
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We’ve already written some about some reasons to start composting. And it doesn’t take any real money to get started composting on your own. But some gardeners would like to compost, but either aren’t handy enough to set up a compost bin, or just don’t have the time. But you don’t want to spend a ton of money, and would just like a good low cost compost bin. The Soilsaver compost bin is one of the most popular, so we take a look at how it will work for you.
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Lasagna gardening is does not have anything to do with pasta, unless you include the gardening of the tomatoes for your sauce. Lasagna gardening is a technique for raised bed garden construction, where the soil is built up in layers, a la lasagna.

Originally conceived by Patricia Lanza lasagna gardening and described in her book “Lasagna Gardening” is an organic gardening method which eliminates the traditional digging and tilling normally associated with vegetable gardening.
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Growing tomatoes is a very popular form of gardening. But for many people today the reality is that they live in an apartment or a condo, where there is no possible access to a garden, and the only real access to the outdoors is the balcony. Is it possible to grow tomatoes on a balcony?

The short answer is yes. There are a few things to keep in mind when trying to grow tomatoes on a balcony.
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Growing tomatoes is probably the most popular activity in vegetable gardening. Information on how to grow tomatoes is searched more than any other plant (except for growing marijuana, but that’s not quite the same activity.)

It’s actually pretty easy to grow tomatoes, and the tomatoes you get from the garden are much better than anything you will find at the grocery store. They don’t take up much room, and can be grown in a wide range of places. So here are some of our best tomato growing tips.
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Here are more of our best tomato growing tips.

Plant Deep - When planting your transplant seedlings, unlike most vegetables, set the seedling into the ground so the stem is covered all the way to the first set of true leaves. Tomatoes will send out roots from the stems, so setting them deeper will encourage a stronger root system, which is key to strong, healthy tomato plants. Tomatoes to be staked can be planted about 24 inches apart with 3 to 4 between rows. If you plan to use cages space them 30 to 36 inches apart.
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When looking at how to grow strawberries, one of the ideas we mentioned was to grow strawberries in a planter or container. Growing strawberries this way gives you all sorts of flexibility in where you plant strawberries, and lets you put them close to where you want them, be it the balcony or the patio, or just hanging outside the kitchen window. In addition, with a planter you don’t have to deal with the overwintering preparation and renovation.
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One of the more upsetting things we have all seen is birds flying into windows. Be it at work in an office building or at home with a picture window, the unmistakeable sound when the bird crashes into a window is one we would all rather forget. But what would cause a bird to go flying into a window at full speed. Are they on the attack or simply daft?
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Now that you have started growing strawberries you want to make sure the beds last several years. Strawberries are fairly low maintenance, but a few simple things can keep them growing even longer.

For June bearing strawberries during the first growing season you should remove the flowers, which helps promote runner development. This will improve yields in the following years.
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Growing strawberries in your garden has to be one of the more rewarding gardening efforts, because there is just no comparison between store bought strawberries and those picked fresh from the garden. So let’s take a look at how to grow strawberries in your garden.

The traditional way to grow strawberries is to nurture them as perennials, that is you plant them one year and expect them to peak in later years. But some places in the South where the summers are quite hot it is not uncommon to grow them as an annual, and replant the following year.
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Children naturally want to help you in the garden. Whether its fumbling to help you plant a few seeds, or pulling weeds after a spring rain, or the excitement of picking Sugar Snap Peas or Sweet 100 tomatoes and eating them right there in the garden, they love to help out. With their own garden tools they can work with them better, and they will identify with the whole process too. Besides, it’s just fun to watch them with their miniature tools.
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Grow lights are a great tool to help kick off your garden in the spring, or to keep your garden going year round. There are quite a few choices in grow lights, ranging from the high tech LED grow lights and the High Intensity lights to the traditional incandescent grow lights. Let’s take a look at the most popular option for the home gardener - fluorescent grow lights.
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When working in the garden or landscape, we all run into the need for a hand pruner at some point. We take a look at different pruner types, and suggestions for which types of pruners work best in different applications. Referred to as secateurs at times, these are versitile tools to have in your gardening arsenal.
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If you’ve ever had to pay to have a tree pruned, you know that the investment in a good tree pruner is one that will pay off handsomely in a single session of trimming. While a telescoping pruner can’t do everything that you get with a professional tree trimming job, you can do a surprising amount from the ground or a short ladder.
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With the development of ever improving LED (light emitting diodes) lighting over the last several years, it is finally becoming economical to use LED’s as grow lights for your indoor gardening and seed starting needs. But is that the only reason to use LED grow lights instead of the traditional fluorescent grow lights?
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What is a self watering container or planter? FIrst let’s be clear about the terminology. What is normally considered a self watering container doesn’t actually water itself. But it does address the greatest problem usually seen with container plants, and that is maintaining the right moisture level.
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Leatherman is famous for the quality of their tools. They virtually created the category of the mutlitool, and have a reputation for tools built to last a lifetime (they have a 25 year warranty) and become indispensable for anyone who has received on for a gift. They recently have turned their talents to creating a gardening multitool.

The Leatherman Hybrid Multitool is the tool to have when working in your garden. Some of the functionality it brings includes:
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Greensand is often used by organic gardeners as a natural source of potassium. It is available as a sand or sediment type amendment for your soil that can be added as part of the soil prepartion before planting or added later as a top dressing. It comes in various formulations based on the amount of sand, etc. that is mixed in, you can find it as diluted as 0-0-0.1, but it has many trace elements as well.
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