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How Starting an Herb Garden Was the Best Thing I Did for My Budget and Sanity

April 9, 2020 3 Comments

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This is a guest post from one of my readers. Enjoy her story and be inspired!

Last Year

It was March 2019, and I was at my wits’ end.

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How to Start a Low-Cost Patio Garden

December 25, 2013 1 Comment

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This is second post this month about gardening in the patio. earlier I wrote about winter care for potted plants. In this article I’ll tell you how to start a patio garden with minimal cost. We didn’t spend more than $10 when we started living in this country.

Low cost gadening

Are you currently without a yard? Maybe you live in New York City and you’re lucky enough to have a patio. Or, for the rest of us, perhaps we do have a yard, but don’t want to take the time to develop a large garden. Then a patio garden might be perfect for all of us! Let’s take a look at some cheap ways to start and maintain our garden on the patio.

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Taking Care of Your Potted Plants in Winter

December 16, 2013 Leave a Comment

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While we spend much of winter keeping warm indoors, plants growing in pots in your patio/balcony can have a tough time coping with the cold weather. In this post I’ll talk about few of the methods you can try to safeguard your plants. Thus helping you to avid the cost of replanting, re seeding or buying a brand new plant.

Potted Plants

We live in an apartment, we have two patios to place our pots. At any point of time we have more than  10 pots with flowering or fruiting plants. Even during winter as winter in south Florida is like fall months in rest of the country. For us container gardening is a year round pleasure.

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One Plant at a Time – Our Patio Garden and Square Foot Garden Update

April 21, 2013 10 Comments

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It’s almost summer over here in south Florida, I can’t believe days are so hot already. Just a couple of weeks back, I had to wear a sweater while coming back from a late night party. Nonetheless, our garden is enjoying the weather. The seeds I sowed early March was not growing much beyond tiny seedlings till beginning of April. Now they are growing thick and fast

Eggplant Seedlings

We are growing Basil, Cilantro, Eggplants, Tomatoes, Peppers and Lettuce this season. Since we are renting a second floor condo it’s a tough job to grow so many vegetables in a limited 7′ X 12′ space. I have grown vegetables and flowers in our patio since last few years. But, not so many in a single season. It’s kind of self test of my skills in gardening you can say.

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