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  • Best of Life on the Balcony

    • Trellis Ideas for Nasturtiums and Other Petite Climbing Vines
    • Expanding Your Growing Space – Gardening at Work
    • A Simple, Yet High-Impact Container Idea
    • What Type of Tomato Is Easy to Grow in a Container?
    • 3 Great Ways to Increase the Amount of Vegetables You Can Grow on a Balcony
    • 5 Plants You Can Use to Add Privacy To Your Balcony
    • Creating a Cocktail Garden on Your Balcony
    • Carnival: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Edible Container Gardening
    • 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Planning Your Container Garden This Year
    • Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010!
  • Container Ideas

    • Orange And Blue Window Box Plans
    • How to Turn a Dingy Old BBQ into an Herb Container Garden
    • Show Your American Pride. Or British Pride. Or French. Australian…
  • Frugal Container Gardening

    • A Little of This, A Little of That – 8/8
    • Container Gardening Grab Bag 7/2
    • Stylish DIY Container for the Balcony Gardener on a Budget
  • Windy Balconies

    • Tips for Growing Edibles on Windy Balconies
    • What to Do on Windy Balconies that Also Get Scortched by the Sun?
    • More Plants for Part-Sun, Windy Balconies
  • Grow Your Own Food!

    • A Little Of This, A Little Of That 8/29
    • A Little of This, A Little of That 8/22
    • My Fall Garden Has Sprouted. What Are You Growing?
  • Balcony Privacy

    • 5 Plants You Can Use to Add Privacy To Your Balcony
    • Sound Advice About Noise Reduction On Your Balcony
    • Check Out These Innovative Hanging Pots
  • Container Herb Garden

    • How to Turn a Dingy Old BBQ into an Herb Container Garden
    • Container Gardening Grab Bag 7/2
    • So…You Waited Until June 22 to Think About Your Edible Container Garden?!
  • High Rise Gardening

    • More Plants for Part-Sun, Windy Balconies
    • Rose Container Ideas for Windy Balcony Gardens
    • Strategies for Dealing With Wind in a High Rise Balcony Garden
  • Container Gardening with Kids

    • A Container Garden for Children and The Young At Heart
    • Great Children’s Gardening Tools
    • How to Grow Corn in a Container
  • Birds, Bees & Butterflies

    • Make Your Own Bird Bath, It’s Easy!
    • Container Gardening Grab Bag 6/25
    • How Will YOU Celebrate National Pollinators Week?

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  • Gardening Bookshelf

    These are some great books and magazines to help you make the most out of your container garden:

    Sunset Magazine

    Organic Gardening Magazine

    Succulent Container Gardens by Debra Lee Baldwin

    Small Budget Gardener by Maureen Gilmer

    Black Plants by Paul Bonine

    Container Gardening for California

    Bountiful Container by McGee & Stuckey

    The New Vegetarian Grill by Andrea Chesman

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    LifeOnTheBlcny: Who wouldn't wait a snail that does battle with #mosquitoes, right?! Here's how you can win one: http://ow.ly/2ylQp
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    LifeOnTheBlcny: Heh. Just found an old post of mine that had the word "containter" in the title. Wonder what that means...A tainted container?
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    LifeOnTheBlcny: Attention LB: Call 570-PETS anytime you see stray dogs. They will be checked out by a vet and put up for adoption. (via @AnarchyGarden)
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    LifeOnTheBlcny: w00t! RT @AnarchyGarden: Scoped new @CoronaTools bypass pruner @LifeOnTheBlcny & I will be showing it off on Good Morning Texas...
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    LifeOnTheBlcny: Here are some updated photos of my orange, blue and white windowbox: http://ow.ly/2ydoo #wordlesswednesday
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    LifeOnTheBlcny: Writing today reminded me how important the basics are. You won't get very far with full-sun plants on a... http://fb.me/FOUUtKWc
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    LifeOnTheBlcny: Hey LA & OC! If you're all about food gardening, check out the Orange County Master Gardeners' Fall Seminar! http://ow.ly/2y6FU
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    LifeOnTheBlcny: A vacation watering "method" that actually works (from @CanarsieBK - Welcome back dude!) http://ow.ly/2xIIn
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    LifeOnTheBlcny: Congrats!!! RT @mominisrael: My post on Rosh Hashanah featured at Food.com! (formerly Recipezaar) http://ow.ly/2xGEB
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