Any gardener knows that dragging a hose around the yard can be a real pain in the neck, particularly when it keeps getting kinked up. It’s also annoying when you have a plant that needs soaking on a regular basis, but you don’t enjoy getting eaten up by mosquitoes in the process. That’s where the Daisy Rain Garden System comes in handy. It connects a series of large pots to your hose so that all you have to is turn on the spigot and let it run for a while. You don’t get eaten alive by bugs and you won’t have to run around your yard with hoses either. Sounds promising, doesn’t it? Read More
container gardening
Growing Squash in Containers – The Basics
I love fried squash, so much that I could eat my weight in it. Which would then no longer be my weight at all, but some higher number. The trouble is that I have always thought squash was one plant that required an actual yard to grow it. After all, it is a plant that can become rather large under the right conditions. When I found a seed packet (Pic-N-Pic Hybrid) that claimed these plants could be grown in a 12 inch pot, I was understandably intrigued. It turns out that growing squash in containers really isn’t that difficult. Read More
