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Growing Aquatic Plants: The Benefits of Pond Pots

Growing Aquatic Plants: The Benefits of Pond Pots

A decorative pond is a glorious addition to any landscape. And aquatic plants add a touch of class that can really put your pond over the top. If you’re currently growing aquatic...
Delivering Oxygen Where it Counts: Tips for Growing Healthy Roots

Delivering Oxygen Where it Counts: Tips for Growing Healthy Roots

If you’re like most people, you know that plants consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere. Plants are widely known as the planet’s primary oxygen producers. The Amazon rainforest produces...
Key Selling Points for Smart Pots: The Best Pots for Plants

Key Selling Points for Smart Pots: The Best Pots for Plants

As a consumer category, plant pots aren’t fundamentally different from any other durable good. When comparing products, customers seek maximum value — the biggest bang for their discretionary buck. And when it...
Start Your School Garden with Fabric Pots

Start Your School Garden with Fabric Pots

A popular trend is gaining momentum across America. In communities coast to coast, school gardens are springing up. Student gardens provide a cornucopia of educational benefits — not to mention delicious vegetables...
Caring for Tropical Plants: Transitioning Outside for Spring

Caring for Tropical Plants: Transitioning Outside for Spring

If you’re like many plant enthusiasts, you’re probably gearing up for the glorious transition to spring. And that means moving your cooped up tropical flowers back into the great outdoors. As you...
The Big Bag Bed Raised Bed Container Garden: Which Size is Right for You?

The Big Bag Bed Raised Bed Container Garden: Which Size is Right for You?

If you’ve decided to take the plunge and start a raised bed container garden, good for you! Raised garden beds offer numerous benefits over in-ground gardens. They protect your crops from pests...
Winter Watering

Winter Watering Tips for Your Garden

It’s Freezin’ Season (and your Landscape is Thirsty!) Winter has arrived in full force. And while your landscape has entered a state of dormancy, it still gets parched every now and then....
Hydroponic Strawberries

Growing Hydroponic Strawberries

“Strawberry Fields Forever” wasn’t just a psychedelic hit by The Beatles. It’s a technique you can put into practice, yielding sweet, juicy hydroponic strawberries year-round. “But won’t the snow and ice ruin...
Grow Nutritious and Delicious Edible Microgreens

Grow Nutritious and Delicious Edible Microgreens

Increasingly seen in posh restaurants and urban windowsills, edible microgreens are highly nutritious, packed with flavor, and easy to grow. So what are they, exactly? Microgreens are edible plants grown until they...
Composting Made Simple

Composting Made Simple

If you’re into gardening, you’ve probably heard rave reviews about compost. That glowing admiration is well deserved. Over the years, compost has earned a reputation as the “black gold” of soil amendments....
How to Build a Beautiful Christmas Arrangement in Five Simple Steps

How to Build a Beautiful Christmas Arrangement in Five Simple Steps

When you think of a winter bouquet, what comes to mind? Artificial flowers stuffed in a vase? Dead, lacquered flowers glued to a straw wreath? This year, take a different approach. Grow...
Forcing Bulbs for Indoor Blooms

Forcing Bulbs for Indoor Blooms

The Big Chill (or Just Chill): Get a Spring Fever Fix by Forcing Bulbs
Easy Tips for Growing Herbs Indoors

Easy Tips for Growing Herbs Indoors

As the days of early fall grow shorter and the evening sun slips away a little sooner, your summer herbs don’t have to call it quits. You can keep that home-grown flavor...
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A Blossoming Success at GrowGreenMI

Tyler Strait takes horticulture seriously. At age 11, he began working at his father’s landscaping and tree service company. The passion he developed there propelled him to the horticulture program at Michigan...
Tropical plant in the winter

Overwintering Tropical Plants

Throughout those warm summer months, your beautiful tropical plants doubled in size and provided eye-candy all season long. You don’t want to throw it all away by simply letting them die during...
Making a cold frame out of straw bales

Build a Straw Bale Cold Frame

Cool fall and winter nights can be a disaster for your plants if you’re not prepared. To protect your plants from the seasonal dips in temperatures, build a cold frame with straw...
Healthy soil for plant growth

Plant Cover Crops to Rejuvenate Your Soil

Looking to improve soil quality? Then it’s high time to plant cover crops! Cover cropping is a tried-and-true, old-school, economical way to build better soil. And better soil means better fruits, flowers,...
Pumpkin garden

In-ground or in the House: How to Grow Pumpkins that Impress

Funky, fun, and fancy — these aren’t your everyday pumpkins! From teeny-tiny to gigantic, white to aqua to gold, pumpkins are everywhere these days, signaling a change of seasons and heralding celebrations...
Protecting plants with mulch

Mulching, Upcycling, and Heeling In: How to Protect Plants in Winter

So you’ve spent a great deal of time, energy, and cold, hard cash throughout the spring and summer on your garden. And you’ve been richly rewarded with a more beautiful, biodiverse, and...
Healthy plant grown in Smart Pot fabric container

Container Planting Tips to Make the Most of Your Smart Pots

Container Planting Tips to Make the Most of Your Smart Pots After a successful gardening season, you may wonder what you should do with your Smart Pots during the off-season. There are...