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Shipping Container Greenhouses

“The urban farm unit by damien chivialle is composed of a shipping container with a greenhouse built on its open roof – kaaitheater, brussels...

Top 10 Plants that Repel Mosquitoes!

Easily repel mosquitoes just by growing these plants! These can all be planted in your container gardens. Just put the containers wherever you site...

Step-By-Step: How to Install & Build a Raised Bed Garden

“A raised garden bed extends the planting season, offers versatility to the gardener and helps protect your knees by bringing plants up from a level...

Urban Organic Gardening: Companion Planting Chart

Companion Planting Chart by Afristar ...

10 Vegetables That You Can Grow in the Shade

10 vegetables that you can grow in the shade by Urb Apothecary ...

Seed Starting Guide for Real People!

Source: Fix.com Luckily for all you green-thumb wannabees, gardening isn’t a passing fad. In fact, the act and art of growing flowers, vegetables, and...

3 Reasons Why Your Garden Will FAIL This Year

Spring is here… getting lots of messages about starting your first container garden. You are excited and nervous. And for good reason. You’ve...

14 Steps to Growing Organic Food

This is the absolute minimum amount of information you need to know about growing your own organic food. This post is brought to you by SeedsNow.com Think...

A Practical Solution to Attracting Beneficial Insects

A Practical Solution to Attracting Beneficial Insects Grow something that will serve two purposes. One for you to eat and one to attract the beneficial...

How to make a Mario Brothers Mushroom using a Radish

Mario Brothers Radish Head is brought to you by http://www.annathered.com 6 Steps: Step 1. Put a knife in the middle of a radish, and make...

The Great GMO Experiment: There Is No Opt-Out Or Is There?

A post on Organic Connections Magazine called People Don’t Want to Be a GMO Experiment got us thinking about a few things. Why we should be concerned...

Plants that Grow Well Together (And Plants that Don’t)

“Companion planting is one of the best techniques to grow a better garden and naturally repel pests. Some plants thrive next to certain other plants,...

What Vegetables to Plant in the Middle of September

Summer is gone and September is upon us. You think you missed your chance to start your garden and will start it next year… …That’s...

Inspirational Organic Balcony Container Garden (submitted by Lillian Yiu)

For those of you that like the Urban Organic Gardener blog we also have a pretty active Facebook page where we offer tips, tricks, and other things you...