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Extend the Smart Pot Season

Extend the Smart Pot Season

Gardeners with large vegetable beds often take extraordinary steps to extend their gardening season. They build low tunnels, design special covers and use other methods to help keep the garden going in...
Is your Raised Bed Garden Environmentally Responsive?

Is your Raised Bed Garden Environmentally Responsive?

That is not a typo. It is not supposed to read Environmentally Responsible, although that could be used to describe Smart Pots with our recycling efforts – manufactured in the USA and...
Pay Dirt: Five Tips for Cashing in on the Perfect Potting Mix

Pay Dirt: Five Tips for Cashing in on the Perfect Potting Mix

Container gardening gives you total control over your plant’s most vital resource… Soil! Here are five tips to help you get the biggest bang for your potting soil buck.
Saving Water When It's Hotter: Six Tips for Creating a Drought Tolerant Garden

Saving Water When It's Hotter: Six Tips for Creating a Drought Tolerant Garden

Wherever on this sapphire-blue planet you live, the summer sun can dish out serious punishment. And when scorching heat mixes with low precipitation, it can spell death for your cherished plants. So...
Berry Delicious Gardening: The Top Six Berry Crops to Grow in Containers

Berry Delicious Gardening: The Top Six Berry Crops to Grow in Containers

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting your Garden of Eatin’ , there are tons of berry varieties that deliver abundant, mouthwatering crops. From tart to tangy to sugary sweet, these...
Grow Up with Smart Pots Vertical Gardening

Grow Up with Smart Pots Vertical Gardening

Vertical planting in Smart Pots is a simple way to break out of a gardening rut. Growing up is like adding an energetic exclamation point that punctuates patios, breaks up large horizontal...
How to Grow Blueberries in Smart Pots

How to Grow Blueberries in Smart Pots

Brent Jacobs didn’t completely ignore the advice of the extension agent who advised him against planting blueberries. He simply bagged the conventional way of planting and planted in Smart Pots instead.
How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter

How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter

Ah, winter… That magical time of year when you curl up by the fire and sip a steaming cup of hot chocolate. It’s a season of celebration, family gatherings… and ruthless destruction...
What Garden Supplies Do Edible Gardeners Want?

What Garden Supplies Do Edible Gardeners Want?

The spring planting season is right around the corner. Time to stock up on garden supplies and get your plan ready for some edible gardening. Need extra motivation? Close your eyes and...
Tips for Gardening in Cold Weather

Tips for Gardening in Cold Weather

Fall is upon us and temperatures are plummeting — especially in northern climates where the growing season is shorter. But that doesn’t mean you’re doomed for a frosty reception in the garden....
Grow Before the Winter Snow: 5 Tips for Gardening in the Fall

Grow Before the Winter Snow: 5 Tips for Gardening in the Fall

Don’t look now, but autumn is fast approaching. Those sunny summer rays get a wee bit shorter every day. If you have a healthy addiction to gardening, don’t despair. There are plenty...
Clean Out Your Garden & Recycle Scraps with a Compost Sak®

Clean Out Your Garden & Recycle Scraps with a Compost Sak®

Cleaning out your garden is a labor of love. But it’s not just about beautification. Those layers of leaves and debris can harbor disease pathogens and insect parasites. Sprucing things up will...
Learn to Grow Vegetables from Kitchen Scraps

Learn to Grow Vegetables from Kitchen Scraps

What do you do with kitchen scraps? Toss them? Banish them to the compost pile? Here’s a better idea — turn them back into vegetables! A surprising variety of veggies will regrow...
Expect a Performance Garden™

Expect a Performance Garden™

When you think high performance, what comes to mind? A championship race car? An elite athlete? A world-class opera? When every part works in perfect harmony, the results can be jaw-dropping. Now...
From Farm to (Veggie)Table: Growing Your Own Hydroponic Food

From Farm to (Veggie)Table: Growing Your Own Hydroponic Food

In an era of pesticides and genetically modified foods, the idea of homegrown produce is going mainstream. Hobbyists and professionals are warming to the idea of hydroponic food. Hydroponic farms provide several...
Getting to the Root of the Problem: Spotting and Curing Plant Disease Symptoms

Getting to the Root of the Problem: Spotting and Curing Plant Disease Symptoms

As a gardener, nothing is more frustrating than watching your plants succumb to disease. Just when your garden is starting to flourish…. BOOM! A nasty case of mildew sends you back to...
Tired of Constant Watering? We Have a Bedder Solution

Tired of Constant Watering? We Have a Bedder Solution

To have a successful garden, your plants need life-giving water. But have you ever considered how much water you waste? Or how much time you spend irrigating thirsty plants? There’s got to...
Bright Lights, Big Tomatoes: Urban Gardening with Smart Pots

Bright Lights, Big Tomatoes: Urban Gardening with Smart Pots

The urban gardening movement has exploded over the last two decades. With accelerating urbanization throughout the globe, that’s not likely to change soon. Urban gardens create community space, improve food security, slash...
Getting "Bac" to Basics: Four Tips for Cultivating Soil Bacteria and Garden Microbes

Getting "Bac" to Basics: Four Tips for Cultivating Soil Bacteria and Garden Microbes

Plants and microbes have evolved together for hundreds of millions of years. Their connection is a basic building block for earth’s terrestrial ecosystems. Today, scientists recognize microorganisms as key contributors to plant...
Spring Garden Ideas That Dazzle: 3 Garden Combos You Absolutely Must Try

Spring Garden Ideas That Dazzle: 3 Garden Combos You Absolutely Must Try

There’s something in the air. You can feel it in your bones. Yep, it’s planting season again. This year why not try something a little different? Shake things up with unexpected combinations...