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9 Tips for Growing Container Trees

A small yard doesn’t mean you can’t start tree farming. An expert shares some tips for successfully growing plants of any size in containers—even indoors.

5 Tips for Summer Watering

Courtesy iStockphoto/Thinkstock For more effective watering, put the watering can aside and use a drip irrigation system to hydrate your garden crops. To make the job even easier, hook the sytem up to an automatic timer.  When the summer sun is sizzling, don’t feel like you have to make the decision of running up a high water bill […]

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4 New Uses For Old Potting Soil

It can seem like a waste to throw out spent potting soil from your container plantings at the end of the growing season. Here are some ways to put it to good use.

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