Grow delicious, juicy strawberries all season long in just 3 simple steps
Upside-down planter forces water and nutrients to flow directly down from root to fruit
No pesticides, digging, weekend, or backbreaking work required
Grow parsley, basil, oregano, rosemary, mint, and other tasty herbs too
Simple to set up and maintain
The Topsy Turvy Strawberry Planter is the most brilliant new invention ever for growing fresh strawberries. Because the ingenious Topsy Turvy is upside down, gravity naturally causes the water and nutrients to pour directly and freely down from the root to the fruit and each port hold 2 plants for even bigger yield! Simply place any strawberry or herb plant in the Topsy Turvy, add favorite potting soil, hang it up and then water. Sun warms the plant like a greenhouse, the root system explodes and thrives inside the planter. Plus, hanging in the air eliminates any ground fungus, harmful bacteria, cutworm damage – no need for pesticides, digging, weeding and makes berry picking easy. Can also grow herbs like parsley, oregano, basil, rosemary, mint and more.
Almost everything edible that’s grown in a traditional garden can be grown in containers – and container gardening is a whole lot easier!
In fact, anyone, anywhere can enjoy container gardening: children, adults, people with limited mobility, people who have never planted anything before, ever, can see amazing results.
This step-by-step guide covers everything you’ll need to get started, including: - sun, soil and water - types of containers to use - equipment needed - seeds and propagation - dealing with challenges of sun, wind and watering
Seasoned container gardener Mary Verdant shares her expertise the art of container gardening. Armed with this step-by-step guide, frustrated apartment dwellers can indulge their passion for growing fresh food.
If you have a balcony, porch, or even some steps that get some sunlight, you’ll find growing edible plants in containers easy and rewarding. You can even grow your own food in window boxes or inside!
Written for the beginner and those with gardening experience, these directions are complete, clear, and easy to follow.
Scroll up, click “Buy Now” and get on the path to delicious, home grown vegetables in less than 30 minutes a week!
Almost everything edible that’s grown in a traditional garden can be grown in containers – and container gardening is a whole lot easier!
In fact, anyone, anywhere can enjoy container gardening: children, adults, people with limited mobility, people who have never planted anything before, ever, can see amazing results.
This step-by-step guide covers everything you’ll need to get started, including: - sun, soil and water - types of containers to use - equipment needed - seeds and propagation - dealing with challenges of sun, wind and watering
Seasoned container gardener Mary Verdant shares her expertise the art of container gardening. Armed with this step-by-step guide, frustrated apartment dwellers can indulge their passion for growing fresh food.
If you have a balcony, porch, or even some steps that get some sunlight, you’ll find growing edible plants in containers easy and rewarding. You can even grow your own food in window boxes or inside!
Written for the beginner and those with gardening experience, these directions are complete, clear, and easy to follow.
Scroll up, click “Buy Now” and get on the path to delicious, home grown vegetables in less than 30 minutes a week!
With few exceptions-such as corn and pumpkins-everything edible that’s grown in a traditional garden can be raised in a container. And with only one exception-watering-container gardening is a whole lot easier. Beginning with the down-to-earth basics of soil, sun and water, fertilizer, seeds and propagation, The Bountiful Container is an extraordinarily complete, plant-by-plant guide.
Written by two seasoned container gardeners and writers, The Bountiful Container covers Vegetables-not just tomatoes (17 varieties) and peppers (19 varieties), butharicots verts, fava beans, Thumbelina carrots, Chioggia beets, and sugarsnap peas. Herbs, from basil to thyme, and including bay leaves, fennel, and saffron crocus. Edible Flowers, such as begonias, calendula, pansies, violets, and roses. And perhaps most surprising, Fruits, including apples, peaches, Meyer lemons, blueberries, currants, and figs-yes, even in the colder parts of the country. (Another benefit of container gardening: You can bring the less hardy perennials in over the winter.) There are theme gardens (an Italian cook’s garden, a Four Seasons garden), lists of sources, and dozens of sidebars on everything from how to be a human honeybee to seeds that are All America Selections.
The desire for low-maintenance landscapes just keeps growing, according the latest gardening and landscaping surveys. At the same time, Americans love for outdoor amenities like fire pits, grills, dining areas and seating shows no signs of waning (see Recent Statistics).
Tesselaar Plants suggests that combining the two should mean less work and more play, right? Here, Anthony Tesselaar, cofounder and president of Tesselaar Plants and other garden experts suggest fuss-free flowers and foliage for outdoor living.
Whether youre relaxing during a private moment in your personal sanctuary or are hosting a dinner party, you dont want to come out to a tired, ailing landscape, says Anthony Tesselaar.. The idea is to go for something thats easy-care, with season-long interest, so you never have to worry about whats outside your door.
We all lead such busy lives, agrees California landscaper and North Coast Gardening blogger Genevieve Schmidt. You dont want an outdoor living space where youre looking at more chores or another to-do list.
Not-so-needy blooms
If youre looking for less watering, spraying and pruning, flowers arent out. Schmidt regularly uses drought-tolerant, blooming perennials like catmint, hardy cranesbill geraniums, ornamental sages, Russian sage, lavender, lions tail, euphorbia, sunrose, artemisia and phlomis.
Landscape roses are another favorite of Schmidts, and she often turns to the Flower Carpet
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The San Francisco Marriott Marquis wants to offer a golden parachute to CEOs and company owners who are in the market for a venue to host a conference, convention or retreat in the next few months.
Adding extra value to its deluxe accommodations while emphasizing savings, the downtown San Francisco hotel will offer businesses three of six incentives when room blocks are booked by June 1. Options include free meeting space, double Marriott points, one complimentary coffee break, 10 percent suite upgrades on a room block, 10 percent discount on food and beverages and 2 percent rebate to the master. Groups that sign a deal for 1,000 rooms also will receive an iPad 3 and VIP welcome reception in the View Lounge for up to 10 people.
Room rates from $ 139 to $ 169 per night will be locked in when business owners ask for the Marquis Group Experience and schedule their meetings on:
-June 18-21: $ 169
-June 30-July 8: $ 139
-July 16-18: $ 159
-July 30-Aug. 2: $ 159
-Aug 9-24: $ 189
-Sept. 1-7: $ 159
-Sept. 22-28: $ 189 (500 peak +) to $ 239
-Dec. 8-14: $ 169
The San Francisco convention center hotel offers 59 meeting rooms with 117,000 flexible square feet that can accommodate small breakout groups of 25 people to large conferences of 3,000 guests. Recently renovated ballrooms feature heightened ceilings, contemporary lighting, art glass highlights, plush carpets and comfortable seating areas. State-of-the-art audio and visual equipment, along with wireless Internet and convenient power supplies, will ensure the most complex presentations come off without a hitch.
The in-house catering staff can add an extra touch to any board-room meeting by serving up anything from a simple coffee or snack break to an elaborate themed gala with advance notice. Or, convention-goers can try one of four restaurants at the downtown San Francisco hotel that serves anything from sandwiches to American or California cuisine. The 4th Street Bar and Grill has 22 beers on tap, and The View on the 39th floor offers extraordinary sites for entertaining clients or unwinding with a cocktail.
After spending long hours in successful strategic planning sessions, professionals can relax in one of 1,499 rooms on 39 floors with views of downtown San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, Union Square and more. Boutique-style rooms feature one king or two double beds with down comforters, custom duvets, cotton-rich linens and down and feather pillows. Other amenities include a 32-inch LCD high-definition TV, in-room mini-bar and refrigerators and wireless Internet.
For information about the Marquis Group Experience package, call the hotel at 415-442-6029 or email salesdept@sfmarriott.com.
About the San Francisco Marriott Marquis
The San Francisco Marriott Marquis in downtown San Francisco is south of market Street and close to the Moscone Convention Center and Yerba Buena Gardens. With 117,000 square feet of meeting space, the San Francisco convention center hotel features four restaurants, 1,499 boutique-style rooms, a state-of-the-art fitness center and onsite spa. For information, visit http://www.marriott.com/SFODT.
Another option for a home gardener wishing to grow food is the portable garden. Easy to erect and take down, the portable garden is easy to store in the shed, garage or basement when not needed. Portable garden is less costly than a traditional garden of a similar size. The portable garden is invaluable and affordable solution for temporary garden needs. Portable garden is very versatile depending on the size or shape; it can be moved around the garden, or set up a larger portable garden in a small corner.
The idea of a portable garden has actually been around as elongated as the idea of a basic garden. Portable garden is less complex than permanent ones. These gardens are fairly inexpensive, easy to set up, and provide protection from cooler night temperatures and early morning killing frosts. Many gardeners like to set the portable garden up in late summer and fill them with their container gardening endeavors.
An even smaller version of a portable garden could be called a mini garden. These minis are as diverse in style and design as their larger garden counterparts. Mini gardens are designed to hold just a few plants and can be put almost anywhere. A cold frame mini garden is a small box made of the same material that a normal garden is composed of. They can be a great choice for beginners looking to try their hand at organic gardening without a large initial investment.
Apartment gardening usually means growing houseplants and perhaps a pot of tomatoes or herb on a balcony. An herb has many uses, right from garnishing recipes, to curing certain infections and illnesses to adding an aesthetic look to garden. Many people want to have their own garden, but without a worthy piece of land to start a garden is almost impossible. The best part of herb is that no garden is needed to grow them. The indoor apartment space can act as a perfect host for growing herb plants. Apartment gardening is the best option for those who want their own garden but lack space. Growing cooking herb plants in an apartment garden is easier than you may think, and provides some advantages over an outdoor garden.
Apartment garden is also called as indoor garden. Making apartment garden firstly determines space where herb plants can be grown and it is easier to grow food. Balcony and window are most common locations used by many people for apartment gardening or any other location in the apartment can be chosen if these two are not suitable.
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Actress and goodwill ambassador Audrey Hepburn hosts this enchanting eight-part series that takes viewers on a journey to some of the world’s most beautiful green spots. Join Hepburn as she visits such locales as Mt. Vernon, Versailles and Holland in “Country Gardens,” “Flower Gardens,” “Formal Gardens,” “Japanese Gardens,” “Public Gardens & Trees,” “Roses & Rose Gardens,” “Tropical Gardens,” and “Tulips & Spring Bulbs.” 5 1/2 hrs. total on three discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English.Imagine the world’s most elegant tour guide, illuminating some of the world’s most breathtaking vistas. The Emmy-winning PBS series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn features the graceful film icon, in her last screen appearance before her death in 1993, as host of a tour of the world’s most elegant and spectacular gardens. Hepburn herself was a gardening enthusiast (at least one rose and one tulip have been named for her), and her passion for the subject will entrance even those who struggle to keep a pot of herbs on the windowsill. The chapters are organized around type of garden (rose gardens, formal, country, etc.) as well as geography (Japanese gardens, tropical), and within each segment, Hepburn, and her co-narrator, Michael York, outline the history, details and art behind all manner of gorgeous spreads.
The “Formal Gardens” segment, for instance, spans nearly 3,000 years, with the original gardens of the pharaohs providing fruit, shade trees, even herbs for embalming. The Persians introduced the concept of pleasure gardens, influenced by Islamic belief of heaven as a vast, restorative garden. The classical Greeks and Romans added statuary to the formal ideal; the Italians, cascading fountains; the French, the idea, embodied at Versailles, of man’s mastery over nature. Every garden is breathtaking in its own way, yet there are principles that even a novice gardener can absorb: the notion of architecture and structure, inside which the “furniture” of flowers and other plants, as suggested by the British garden expert Penelope Hobhouse, can be placed just so. Along the way, and around the world through history, Hepburn is a compelling guide whose obvious passion for the subject makes the series as riveting as any nature documentary. Extras in the Special Tribute Edition include a documentary, In Pursuit of Beauty, in which Hepburn visits more than 30 locations (including Giverny, known as Monet’s flower garden). It also includes an interview with Hepburn and a splendid soundtrack featuring selections by Debussy, Vivaldi, and Berlioz. –A.T. Hurley
Brightgreen living wall planter only, intended for outdoor use
Add color and interest to an otherwise dull outdoor wall simply by adding bright flowers or plants
Planters can be hung separately or in groups, forming one seamless vertical landscape
Populate the planting cells within each unit with plants purchased at your local nursery
Irrigator, water collector and decorative frame not included
This product is the BrightGreen Living Wall Planter only, intended for outdoor use. Irrigator, Water Collector and decorative frame not included. Complete indoor kits which include the irrigator, water collector and decorative frame are sold separately (search for BrightGreen Living Wall Planter Kit). The horticulture industry is forever changed with the introduction of the BrightGreen Living Wall Planter. By graphically arranging a collection of plants in our patented polymer cells and mounting them on a vertical surface, designers, architects and the weekend gardener are presented with a whole new world in which to express their creativity. The BrightGreen Living Wall Planter consists of a single polymer unit measuring 8x18x4 and is lined with our proprietary moisture mat. Simply populate the planting cells within each unit with plants purchased at your local nursery by following the planting instructions provided with your planter. Each unit can be hung separately or in groups. Tilt the unit upright and attach it to any sound, vertical surface using the mounting bracket included with your planter. Water thoroughly (Please note: excessive water will drain out of the bottom!). Plants can be watered manually by installing our patented Irrigator (not included) or through your own built-in drip line system. Our planting cells can be hung separately or in groups, forming one seamless vertical landscape. Vertical planting can be applied to any size wall in any climate zone, even in commercial environments. Both the aesthetic beauty and the wellness factor of large, lush green facades compliment the urban landscape. Consider the ecological benefits of sustainability, heat reduction and habitat recreation and the addition of vertical planting becomes an even better compliment to concrete structures. Add color and interest to an otherwise large vinyl or concrete surface simply by adding bright flowers or plants.
