Contests

Are you a fan of gazing balls? Garden designer Jenny Peterson is. Check out how she has used gazing balls in containers. Adriana Martinez has got some great advice on growing peppers. If you’re growing your tomatoes in a small space, you’ll want to check out Mike Lieberman’s tomato training tutorial. Gayla Trail has got [...]

Have you seen some unusual looking Triscuit boxes in the grocery store lately? Wanting to support the the home farming movement, Triscuit has included plantable herb seed cards in 4 million boxes of Triscuits. They have also created a website that includes information about growing vegetables at home, a crop guide, community forums, and lots [...]

Since we’re talking budget-friendly containers today, check out this self-watering container. It’s like a stylish, Italian upgrade to the ubiquitous Earthbox. It isn’t normally free, I would imagine that the folks at CleanAirGardening.com couldn’t feed their families if they always gave their products away. But they have generously offered to send one LOTB reader their very [...]

I am very excited to announce that Laura Hulka’s photo pictured above has been selected as the winner of the set of herb pots. My co-judge and I had such a hard time selecting among the entries that we selected our five favorites, and then selected the winner at random from among them. Thank you [...]