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Category Archives: Container Gardening
Taking the Straw Bales’ Temperatures
I have been checking the internal temperature of my straw bales to see if they are starting to decompose inside. According to the information from Joel Karsten at strawbalegardens.com, the bales should start to heat up about now. I checked … Continue reading
New Straw Bale Garden
Last week, I attended a presentation on straw bale gardening with my friend, Penny. We both left Joel Karsten’s talk very excited to try this new type of container gardening. So over the weekend, I located a farmer near New … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Fruits and Vegetables
Tagged Joel Karsten, Straw bale gardening
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Best Container Plant for 2011
There’s no prize with this award, just my unending admiration for a plant that bloomed, bloomed, and bloomed again throughout the cool, hot, humid, slow-to-start, slow-to-end summer of 2011. And the winner is: Supertunia® Bordeaux petunia. I bought several of … Continue reading
Posted in Amazing Plants, Annual Flowers, Container Gardening
Tagged best container plants, Supertunia 'Bordeaux'
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Can You Eat a Sweet Potato Vine Tuber?
While taking apart my front porch container plantings this weekend, the question came to mind: Can you eat these cute little tubers that the ornamental sweet potato vine made? Short answer: Yes, you can. Longer answer: Yes, you can, but … Continue reading
Planting Container Masterpieces on KARE
If you enjoy container gardening, be sure to tune into Grow with KARE, locally on channel 11, at 6 p.m. Friday and at 9 a.m. Saturday, to watch Michelle Mero Riedel talk with Belinda Jensen and Bobby Jensen about container … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Garden Trends
Tagged Belinda Jensen, Bobby Jensen, Grow with KARE, Michelle Mero Riedel
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Five Tips for Great Container Gardens
At last week’s Northern Green Expo, I had a chance to hear DeAnne Bennett, a garden maintenance consultant with Bachman’s, talk about how to create and maintain fabulous flower beds and containers. The plant combinations she puts together for homeowners … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Gardening Know-How
Tagged Bachman's, container gardens, DeAnne Bennett
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Three Garden Trends for 2011
Earlier this week, I had a chance to attend the Northern Green Expo, the annual educational event for members of the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association. It’s a great event for hearing about new products and garden trends. National trend-watchers … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Garden Trends
Tagged blooms, calibrachoa, container gardens, Garden trends, petunias, succulents
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Spring Fever with Plants
The wonderful sunshine we’ve been having the past few days and exciting natural phenomenon like Sun-Still-Up-at-5:30 p.m, have got me itching to grow things. It’s still a little early to plant seeds here (though I’m sorely tempted), so I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Herbs, Houseplants
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