Grow plants anywhere with container gardening! Discover tips and ideas for creating beautiful gardens in pots, planters, and containers of all sizes.
Kalmegh is a tropical annual that takes 90 to 120 days from sowing to harvest. In cold climates you grow it the way you grow tomatoes, as a single-season crop sown after the last frost, and you start the seeds…
Plant 100 adzuki bean seeds in May and you will shell your first dry pods around September. That is the honest math of this crop: 90 to 120 days from seed to dry bean, no shortcuts, no dwarf miracle variety.…
Cut a 15 to 20 cm tip from a healthy stem, strip the lower leaves, and set it in moist mix. That is how to grow suji leaf plant in a pot on a bright windowsill, and the same plant…
An outdoor Christmas urn earns its place when it still looks alive in January. The outdoor Christmas urns that last combine three things: a container that drains and resists frost, living evergreens chosen for container cold, and fresh greenery built…
Buy one pot-grown alstroemeria and slide the whole root ball into the ground without breaking it apart. That is how to grow alstroemeria that keeps blooming year after year. The rest of this page is 14 moves, from the pot…
Set the crown 1 cm proud of the soil line before you backfill the hole. That is the whole trick to growing gerbera daisies. The rest of this page is 13 moves, from the first spade of compost to the…
Take a 10 to 12 inch hardwood cutting in late winter or an 8 inch softwood cutting in early summer, and you can root a new mulberry tree in 4 to 8 weeks. That is how to grow mulberry from…
Take middle-stem cuttings with 5 nodes from a mother plant at least 2 months old, root them in moist peat moss or sand, and move them into 3 gallon pots once they carry 6 to 8 leaves. That is how…
Grow Java tea in a pot of moist, compost-rich mix, give it full sun with afternoon shade in hot climates, and carry the pot indoors before nights fall toward 50 degrees Fahrenheit. That is how to grow java tea as…
Moringa grows 3 to 5 meters in a single year when you leave it alone. That speed is the whole story of growing it from India: plant a tree that races for the sun, then learn to slow it down…
Buy one vine, one moss pole, and one 15 to 25 liter pot, and plan to carry the pot indoors before cold weather arrives. That is how to grow Javanese long pepper in a temperate climate. Javanese long pepper (Piper…
Plant one firm shampoo ginger rhizome division 2 to 3 inches deep after all frost danger has passed, and plan on moving the pot indoors before the first frost in fall. That is how to grow shampoo ginger in a…
Plant one fingerroot rhizome piece 5 to 8 cm deep in a 10-litre pot of humus-rich mix after the last frost, and pull the whole plant 4 to 5 months later for a harvest of finger-shaped roots. That is how…
Plant three pieces of store-bought turmeric rhizome in one wide 12-inch pot this spring and you can dig up your own harvest 8 to 10 months later. That is the whole promise when you learn how to grow turmeric in…
Plant one firm galangal rhizome in a 5-gallon pot in spring, keep the soil above 70°F, and you will dig your own harvest in 8 to 12 months. Galangal here means greater galangal, Alpinia galanga, a tropical ginger relative grown…
Pot one torch ginger rhizome division 2 to 3 inches deep in spring, and plan on moving a 2-to-3-foot container indoors before nights drop below 50°F (10°C). That is how to grow torch ginger (Etlingera elatior), the kecombrang of Indonesian…
Growing ghost peppers takes 120 to 160 days from seed to ripe pods. Difficulty is moderate to hard: the plant itself is easy, the germination and the season length are not. Start seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before your…
Plant one plump supermarket ginger root in February and you can dig up fresh, juicy rhizomes by October, with thin skins you never need to peel. Learning how to grow ginger at home comes down to three things: warmth, a…
Start a stem cutting of grass jelly plant (Cyclea barbata, cincau hijau) in a large pot with a tall trellis. That is how to grow grass jelly plant outside the tropics: a herbaceous vine that climbs about 5 m in…
Take a 15 to 20 cm semi-hardwood stem cutting, strip the lower leaves, and push it into moist potting mix. That is how to grow katuk sweet leaf in a temperate garden: fast shoots, a deep pot, bright shade, and…
