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Today’s edition of Workshop Wednesday will appeal to those who like small-scale gardening.  Alpine plants, succulents and other low-growing plants grow well in trough planters. Here’s how to plant a hypertufa container garden. I’ve always enjoyed planting container rock gardens, so I was delighted to find a table of hypertufa trough planters at the recent Denver [...]

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Just like you can grow flowers in hanging pots, you can do the same thing with tomato plants. The only difference is that instead of growing the tomato plants right side up, you grow them upside down. The reason is that, if you do things the right way, your tomato plant would grow so high it would grow into the rafters or ceiling which obviously would not be good. So for this reason, hanging tomato plants are grown upside down. Read on...

Moss looks wonderful on stones and stone walls and makes a cool and soothing lawn alternative. For every person who hates moss and tries to get rid of it, there are several gardeners out there trying to get moss to grow where it won’t. Mosses are a type of plant with no conventional leaves, stems or roots. To complicate matters further, they don’t flower or set seed. Yet they grow in the oddest of places, like on your roof or sidewalk.

The easiest way to get moss to grow where you want it is to transplant the moss you have, either in tact or as a slurry, and then give it the growing conditions it needs to make i...

Grow tents are becoming more and more popular as more people decide to grow plants indoors. These grow tents are used for a number of different reasons including keeping the light secluded to the room, keeping light out during dark phases, keeping everything organized, and keeping pests and mold out of your grow space and away from your plants. Pests and mold can completely destroy a healthy crop if let to grow out of control.

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