Carnival: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Edible Container Gardening

I am so excited to publish the very first Life on the Balcony Blog Carnival! Thank a million times over to all of the people who participated. Without further ado, I give you a plethora of great posts on edible container gardening for your reading pleasure…

Grow Stuff You Can Eat Indoors

• Indoor Edible Container Gardening with an AeroGarden – Check out Viggie’s Veggies’ update on her AeroGardens. She’s growing herbs and even cucumbers (!!!) indoors.
• Growing Rosemary Indoors – Melanie shares her secret for keeping her rosemary plant from getting woody stems.

Frugal Ideas for Growing Your Own Food

• Container Gardening Ideas for Rednecks (and Other People on a Budget) – Check out Matt’s self-proclaimed Redneck NASCAR edible container garden. You can also see how is doing one month into his gardening adventure, and how Matt’s garden looks now.
• Redneck Frost Protection for Container Gardens – Matt share’s his inexpensive method for protecting his container garden from frost.
• 5 Healthy Recipes from the Victory Container Garden – Matt (a different Matt than above) shares recipes that he made with what he grew in his container garden. Additional ingredients cost less than $1!
• 10 Easy Vegetables & Herbs You Can Grow to Save Money – A list of plants that are easy to grow yet can be expensive at the grocery store.

How To _____

• How to Create a Hydroponic Vegetable Garden on Your Balcony – Lorraine provides solid info about building a vegetable garden on a patio or balcony that will water itself without access to a power outlet. Ingenius!
• How to Grow Any Kind of Tomato on a Balcony – Prue shares her tried-and-true (yet whimsical) advice for growing all sorts of kinds of tomatoes in pots on a balcony.
• Kumquats Make Excellent Container Plants – Angela talks about growing Meiwa Kumquats in pots.
• 7 Herbs You Can’t Live Without – Liz shares 7 herbs she grows in her container garden that she can’t imagine living without.

Dispatches from the Container Garden

• First Time Sowing Seeds - Barbara shares photos of her success starting seeds and her experience using a self-watering pot.
• Argula in Tucson, A Success Story – Les shares his experience growing edibles in a difficult climate with pack rats for neighbors.

Finding Beauty in Fruits & Vegetables

• Create Beautiful Citrus Container Gardens – Jenny shares fun tips that she’s learned from her landscape design practice for creating citrus container gardens that are as beautiful as they are tasty.
• Prolonging a Vacation to the Italian Coast with a Beautiful Lemon Tree – Todd and Diane planted a beautiful lemon tree in a rustic urn after being inspired by their travels to Italy.

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