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7 Container Gardens You Can Move Indoors for Winter Success

December 23, 2025 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

Cold weather doesn’t have to mean the end of your gardening joy, and winter doesn’t need to turn your green thumb into a memory. As temperatures drop and daylight shrinks, container gardens become secret weapons that let you keep growing, harvesting, and enjoying plants long after the first frost. The thrill comes from outsmarting the…

The Truth About Growing Food in Containers During Winter

December 11, 2025 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

Winter gardening often gets a bad rap. Cold, snow, and freezing winds make most people think that growing anything in containers is impossible. But with a bit of creativity, clever planning, and the right tools, winter container gardening can be surprisingly productive—and even fun. From leafy greens thriving under a balcony cover to herbs basking…

How To Get Free Seeds From The Government by Amanda Blankenship Seeds might seem like a small expense, but any seasoned…
Should I Use Enviro Ice On My Plants? by Kathryn Vercillo Every week, I receive food from Hungryroot. It's a great…
From Trash to Treasure: Transform Shredded Paper Into Garden Gold by Amanda Blankenship Should you use shredded paper as garden mulch? It might…
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Should You Leave Fallen Leaves on the Lawn? Yes and No

For years, the standard fall routine was simple: rake every leaf, stuff the pile into bags, and make the lawn look as though autumn never happened. Now gardeners are increasingly told to “leave the leaves,” which sounds wonderfully easy until a thick layer of wet maple leaves is plastered across the grass. The truth is…

Don’t Bag Those Fall Leaves — They Could Replace 3 Things You Pay for in the Garden

Every fall, homeowners rake up something useful, stuff it into bags, haul it away, and then head back to the garden center a few months later to buy products that do many of the same jobs. Fallen leaves aren’t simply yard debris; they’re a free source of organic material that can protect soil, suppress weeds,…

Can You Grow an Avocado Tree From the Pit — And Will It Ever Produce Fruit?

You finish an avocado, look at the enormous pit left on the cutting board, and wonder why you’d throw away something that appears perfectly capable of becoming another plant. The good news is that growing an avocado tree from a pit really does work, and you don’t need an expensive propagation kit to try it….

The $30 Perennial Is Now $8 — Can You Plant It This Late?

The garden center’s clearance table can become dangerously tempting in fall: that perennial you refused to pay $30 for in May is suddenly wearing an $8 sticker. Saving $22 sounds like a fantastic gardening win, but planting clearance perennials in fall only saves money if the plant survives long enough to return next spring. Fall…