Posts Tagged ‘small gardens’

Container Gardening-Choosing the Right Containers

One of the best ways to get quality vegetables and a decent sized yield, or to get a beautiful landscape in a minute area is by the use of containers. Small gardens do not necessarily yield small vegetables or flowers.  You can pack a lot into a small container. Container gardening, for those who have not gardened before, is also quite forgiving. You can grow virtually anything in a container garden that you can grow with an in-ground garden, and you may well get a better yield than you did in the ground. Learn More

Plants for Small Gardens

One of the most important aspects of successfully landscaping a yard or garden, particularly a smaller garden, is choosing your plants.

If the garden itself is the meal, then the colors and the textures are the flavors that mingle in that “meal”.

Successfully landscaping a small garden means creating elements that can be used to a specific purpose, such as screening you from the neighbors, hiding some unsightly thing, or  shading an area, or even controlling erosion of the soil in your small space. Read the rest of this entry »