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Container Gardening Grab Bag 7/9

by Fern on July 9, 2010

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If you’re in Southern California, I hope you’ll join in a meetup group Adriana of Anarchy in the Garden and I have created. Eat Me is a group for Southern Californians who want to meet other gardeners who like growing their own food. It should be a lot of fun to meet in person and chat about gardening. I hope you’ll join us! “Like” Eat Me on Facebook, or follow @SoCalEatMe on Twitter.

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Auto-Water Nozzle: How Drip Irrigation Saved My Balcony Garden

by Guest Post on June 13, 2010

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I am thrilled to share this guest review of the Auto-Water Nozzle by Charles McKnight. Charles grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas (where he didn’t quite fit in) and now lives in Santa Monica, California (where he fits in much better). He is an actor, college student, and balcony gardener. Charles was looking for a way to water his garden without making a watery mess on the floor of his balcony, hence the search that ultimately led him to the Auto-Water Nozzle.

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Review of P. Allen Smith/Bonnie iPhone App: Grow & Go Together

May 20, 2010
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P. Allen Smith has recently teamed up with Bonnie Plants to make an app for iPhones and iPod Touches called Grow & Go Together. The app has encyclopedia-type information on herbs, vegetables, recipes, projects, and containers. Each of these subjects is accessed from the main menu and then broken down into further subtopics in subsequent [...]

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Container Gardening Grab Bag – 5/7

May 7, 2010
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Lots of good news in my neck of the woods. For starters, I’m graduating from the Master Gardener training program this weekend, so on Saturday I will officially be a certified Master Gardener. I should be able to share more details about some other good news soon. This week was also good in that there [...]

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Container Gardening Grab Bag – 4/30

April 30, 2010
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This week there were some really good garden blog posts to share, and some kind of funny gardening news. I particularly liked Sue’s post about comparing seedlings growing in potting soil from last year versus ones that had fresh potting mix. There’s also a corny gardening joke, and a bit about the nasturtium seed scarification [...]

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Review of Burpee Biodegradable Seed Starting Kit

April 6, 2010
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If you’ve been reading the Life on the Balcony Facebook Page, then you know how much fun I have been having starting seeds in my potting shed (otherwise known as my garage). Part of the reason I’ve been having so much fun out there is that I have been using a new seed starting set [...]

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Friday Afternoon Grab Bag

April 2, 2010
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I’m trying something new in an effort to share some of the cool things I come across as well as lighten the load for me (writing 5 full-length posts a week for nearly 2 years is starting to take it’s toll). Basically, on Fridays I’m going to be sharing some links and quick ideas for you [...]

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Do Leaf – A Great Way to Find More Interesting Plants

February 24, 2010
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I recently became aware of a great new site called Do Leaf when they offered to send me some plants so that I could test out their site (it’s still in beta). Do Leaf is the brain child of Sarah, Ryan, and Micah who were fed up with the mediocre selection of plants at their [...]

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Guest Post: EarthBox Review

February 18, 2010
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I wish the Earth Box had been around when I first started to grow vegetables back in 1978. At the time, I lived in a row house in South Philadelphia that had no yard. I grew everything in containers – large, plastic basins I bought at the hardware store – on my back porch. I [...]

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Product and Book Review Policy

December 12, 2009

After reading several comments left in the State of the Balcony survey regarding product and book reviews, I want to make my policy on such posts clear. To state it simply, I never publish anything about a book or product that I don’t personally love and use. Period. I do occasionally receive products and books [...]

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Black Friday – Here are Some Recommendations

November 27, 2009
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I thought I would collect all of the product and book reviews posted on Life on the Balcony in one spot in case you’re planning on any Black Friday or Cyber Monday internet shopping… Soil Scoop: My first video post (go easy on me!) of a useful product for container gardeners and traditional gardeners alike. [...]

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Vlog 3: Review of P. Allen Smith’s Container Gardening Deck

November 18, 2009

I recently received a review copy of P. Allen Smith’s Container Gardens Deck. In order to test it out and see whether I would recommend the deck to other people, I took one of the cards with me to the nursery and used it to create a container design: As you can see, I think [...]

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