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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Popcorn is a great treat year round. One of the advantages of growing popcorn in your garden is that you can sample some of the many different types of popcorn. Experience the a wide range of choices, from hull-less varieties to the traditional yellow popcorn, all unfettered by the synthetic tastes of microwave popping.
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We’ve taken a look at the types of blueberries and what some tips on growing blueberries already. So here we take a look at what you should do for the ongoing care of your blueberry plants.
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After you’ve made the selection of the type of blueberries that you want to grow, we’re on to the next steps in growing blueberries. Make sure you select a variety that is hardy in your hardiness zone.
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Types of Blueberries - Blueberry Varieties

If you are thinking about growing blueberries, the first thing you need to do is determine the type blueberries you want to plant. Here is a quick overview of the various varieties of blueberries. Make sure you pick the variety that fits your available space and climate zone.
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With spring approaching soon, it seemed time to start thinking about changes to the garden area. Since the garden is fairly far removed from the garage, I was thinking about investing in a garden shed. But the price of many of the sheds out there can take your breath away. So I started looking at other options.
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As wintertime approaches, we start to think about what we can do to help the local wildlife survive the winter months. Winter can be an especially hard time on birds. As warm blooded animals, they will need more nourishment and just raw calories to help keep warm. But as the local vegetation and insect population dies back, and in many cases is covered by snow, it becomes that much harder for the birds to find.

It may be time to consider a bird feeder of some sort, or something esthetically pleasing like decorative suet bird feeders. So, what is suet and why would you consider it for your bird feeders in the winter months?
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We were looking for information on squirrel proof bird feeders and came across this video. It shows a variety of different types of squirrel proof feeders in action, including a motorized battery powered feeder. There are a couple of different styles for different size birds, but they all seem to do a good job of keeping squirrels out of your feeder.
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Recently I was looking for unique birdhouses for the back yard. But I thought I would first see what kind of information there was to be had on building your own birdhouse from scratch.
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The Earth Box Garden System has been around since 2001. If you are looking for a good way to do container gardening for larger plants like vegetables, including container tomatoes and peppers and the like, you will need a container that holds at least a couple of cubic feet of soil. The EarthBox is just the right size, measuring about 29×13x10.5 in. It’s a totally self contained garden system. It goes together quickly, about 20-25 minutes including the addition of the potting soil.
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Here’s another idea for container growing your tomatoes. The Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter is a very popular planter these days. It’s a simple planter that hangs a single tomato plant upside down in a container. It’s quite effective, and many people consider it to be the ultimate way to grow tomatoes, especially in a balcony or patio. But it does only handle one plant, and it needs somplace to hang. If you are looking for a way to grow even more tomato plants, or don’t have a place to hang a planter, the same folks that invented the Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter have come up with another way to plant your tomatoes.
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The AreoGrow Aerogarden is a great choice for growing your herbs and small vegetables and salad fixings indoors. But at some point you will want to “branch out” in what you grow, and you will want to find seed pods or seed kits for the Aerogarden.

You can grow a huge variety of vegetables in the Aerogrow Aerogarden. The following video gives a sample of some of the available seed types you can grow in the AeroGarden.
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Why Compost? The are a lot of good reasons to start composting.

As any gardener knows, you end up with a lot of garden waste over the course of the year that you have to get rid of in some way. For gardeners, harvest time means a lot of refuse.

Burn your waste: Not really a sustainable mode, and as a pragmatic matter it’s simple against the law in many places. Besides, it’s not that pleasant a way to deal with you yard waste.
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One of the most inexpensive ways to build a raised bed is of course to build your own raised bed. We discuss some techniques for this in the article on raised garden bed construction.

But if you are using lumber to make your raised garden beds, the most difficult thing about the construction is securing the corners. With a lot of moist soil in place, these joints need to be securely fastened. The ideal way to do this is with corner brackets. These provide not only a very strong corner joint, but give some esthetic appeal to the project as well. And if you are looking at making a bed deeper than 12 inches, you will also need to address connecting 2 pieces of lumber together as well.
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Here are a couple more of the infomercial videos on the Aerogrow Aerogarden Hydroponics unit. (I think this unit is fascinating myself, great idea for a Father’s Day present).

The first shows a quick overview of the herbs you can grow with the Areogrow system. 7 herbs in one kit, enough to keep the cook in your life happy for a while.
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We’ve reviewed tomato planters for hanging upside down tomatoes. But those hanging planters tend to take up a lot of space, especially vertically. If you don’t have that kind of room or that’s too much to climb around here is an idea for small patio or balcony hanging planter.
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