Dig In To Easy Gardening Ideas
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Whether you’re an expert gardener or a self-identified plant killer, there are plenty of innovative ways to rethink planting, growth, and harvest from your very own plot of soil, terrace, or patio. The truth is, there’s nothing quite like taking a bite out of a strawberry you seeded or seasoning your marina with a bunch of basil you raised. So regardless of how limited your space may be, there are a host of tools and techniques to help make your gardening adventure successful this season and into the next.
Tools We Love
Get ready to roll up your sleeves and get a little dirt under your fingernails. These gardening devices will cultivate your new passion (or at least maintain the old one).
We love The Greenstalk tower garden because it allows for maximum, efficient growth in a small space, becomes an attractive design element when it’s fully leafed out, and is incredibly easy to plant and maintain. The five-tiered, heavy duty plastic container features 30 pockets for planting and is designed to be self-watering from the top. Whether you plant every pocket with flowers or veggies, the effect is mesmerizing for your space and adds an immediate abundance of life and greenery. The best part, is once you’ve added dirt the first time, the pockets are always ready for more filling season after season!
These can be small and basic or large and flashy (Bluetooth connectivity!), but honestly, a seed is going to grow either way. Hydroponic gardens are such fun for folks who haven’t spent a lot of time gardening, so they’re perfect for kids’ rooms, busy home kitchens, and even classrooms. Fill the bottom with water, squirt the appropriate amount of plant food in, and then plant a few seeds in the provided dirt pods. In only a few days, the seeds will begin to germinate and grow right under your nose! You can either keep the plants growing and harvest them straight from the hydroponic garden, or move plants outside once they get hearty. We love a hydroponic garden for use as a kitchen herb garden!
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by container gardening or are short on space, we love this raised bed on wheels. At waist height, this garden keeps you from bending over for planting or harvesting, is deep enough to encourage a good root system, and allows enough space for six or seven smallish to mid-size plants. It also gets bonus points for being rollable, and for the shelving on the bottom…just enough room to keep a watering can, a hand shovel, and a bag of soil.
Whether you try something entirely new this season in the garden, or stick with your tried and true favorite plantings, the important part is loving what you grow. Stick with the plants that quite literally give you life, share the season’s bounties with people you love, and keep dirt under those fingernails all summer long.