August 15, 2010

Do you love gardening on auto-pilot? The Aussies have a cool product that has made its way Stateside. The CLEV-A 9 Pot garden is a sustainable, vertical growing system which uses a solar powered, gravity fed, automated watering system to deliver specific…
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Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Finding, Great Finds, Herb Gardens, Solar Energy
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June 8, 2010

Good green things come in extremely small packages. Marque Cornblatt on Gomi Style, a do-it-yourself blog, posted some wonderful wee gardens planted in recycled Altoid and other tiny candy tins: ”These tiny succulent cuttings and small herbs seem to be thriving in…
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Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Garden Art, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Reclaimed & Recycled
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March 2, 2010

Is your head spinning with all the information out there? If you want to simplify things, try The Vegetable Garden Wheel, edited by one of America’s leading horticulturists, Ruth Rogers Clausen. The wheel offers an education for new vegetable gardeners, including suggestions on siting…
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Category: Edible Landscaping, Finding, Garden Design, Garden Factoids, Great Finds, Herb Gardens, Urban Agriculture
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February 27, 2010

Euphorbia, Dwarf Crown of Thorns. from Texas nursery, Colors of Creation
DoLeaf is a new central online marketplace where gardeners can connect with growers and small garden retailers around the nation. They offer a wide variety of unique plants that are perfect for…
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Category: Bulbs and Plants, Community Gardens, Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Finding, Garden Design, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Urban Agriculture
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February 17, 2010

Swedish Designer Hanna Sandström has teamed up with Green Fortune and Whirlpool in the creation of a mini hydroponic fridge kitchen garden. Huh? That’s what I said. The claim is that by providing light, temperature, space, moisture, nutrition, and water, the fridge-cum-kitchen garden…
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Category: Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Herb Gardens, Hydroponics, No-Dig Gardening, Urban Agriculture
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