Nasturtium Garden in a Pail
In any case should you have a green thumbed friend who is inclined to eat flowers you would probably make their day with this. They get a galvanized pail filled with everything they need to grow their own salad, stir fry veggies, or just something nice to look at. Just add water and give it some sunlight. The Garden in a Pail is available from Gardeners Supply Company for $37.95
Perhaps your better educated than I am (something I willing to concede as probable), but the very first thing I thought when I saw this product was: “What the heck is a Nasturtium”. If you knew already, don’t hold it against me. A quick trip to organicgardentips.com tells me that nasturtium is a flower, it’s a salad ingredient, and it’s used in stir fry. I was always taught as a child you don’t eat the flowers. Maybe that was just daisies.
Wednesday ~ October 10, 2007 by Steve W Posted in Container Gardening, Gardening Gifts for Women, Houseplants, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Organic Garden Seeds
Get a head start on your vegetable garden this year. Order these organic gardening seeds now so you can start your garden as soon as the first frost of spring has passed. Choose from cucumbers, peppers, and even pumpkins! Seeds always make a great gift. How about putting seeds in your child’s Easter basket this year? Seeds are truly the gift that keep on giving! Happy growing!
Monday ~ February 02, 2007 by kswanson56 Posted in Hard to Find Seeds, Kids, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Aerogrow planter lets you grow salad right in the kitchen
Looking for a cool gift for the gardener who likes to cook? Check out the Aerogrow indoor kitchen garden. The comprehensive video review above comes from Groovy Green, a great site about sustainable living and renewable energy.
Friday ~ February 02, 2007 by Ulrich Posted in Gardening Gifts for Women, Gardening Lifestyle, Organic Gardening, Serious Gardener, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Upside-Down Tomato Garden
Vegetable gardening just got a lot easier with this cool upside down planter from Hammacher Schlemmer & Company. It holds up to 80 pounds of topsoil and is also suitable for growing other plants like herbs on the top layer. This planter is great for balconies, decks, or any space that gets enough sunlight! And don’t forget about the award winning Topsy Turvy Planter for growing great tomatoes vertically!
Thursday ~ November 11, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Garden Tools, Gardening Lifestyle, Greenhouse Gardening, Serious Gardener, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Organic Gardening for the 21st Century by John Fedor
Organic Gardening for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers is an excellent book that will introduce you to all the newest organic gardening techniques and technologies. The book starts with the basics of organic gardening, and then goes on to describe more advanced techniques, making it a perfect resource for all gardeners. The tips are useful and practical, too, without being out of reach for the average gardener. Check out more books about organic gardening here.
Friday ~ September 09, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Organic Gardening, Serious Gardener, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Eco-Friendly Products for the Garden and Home
I was doing some research on environmentally friendly companies and products last week and found the Green Home Environmental store. Green Home sells a ton of cool gifts, gadgets, and useful products for a more eco-friendly garden and home, including these low-flow hose attachments, natural and organic pesticides, etc.
Monday ~ June 06, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Clothes for Gardening, Garden Furniture, Garden Tools, Gardening Lifestyle, Hard to Find Seeds, Kids, Natural Pesticides and Fertilizers, Organic Gardening, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Delicious Herb Seeds: Chives
Give the gift of a delicious herb this summer. Chives Park Seed
will make a great gift for the herb gardener in your family. Or if you have a friend or neighbor who appreciates herbs, why not surprise them with a gift of chive seeds. Not only do chives have a delicious, light onion flavor, they also have a beautiful flower. Remember that seeds make a great gift when included in a simple greeting card.
Thursday ~ June 06, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Hard to Find Seeds, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Veggie Chopping Tool
A great tool for the gardener and chef is this salad chopper, which will allow you efficiently chop your home grown vegetables. And remember that the kitchen is a great source of composting material. Use your vegetable scraps and fruit peels in your compost instead of throwing them out. 
Friday ~ March 03, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Gardening Gifts for Women, Gardening Lifestyle, Vegetables | 1 Comment
Gifts for the Gardener and Chef
Looking for a place where you can find great vegetable seeds and great recipes? The Cook’s Garden is the perfect site! This site caters to the gardener/chef and is a fun site to browse. Check out items for the kitchen as well as the garden at their website.
Friday ~ March 03, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Gardening Lifestyle, Hard to Find Seeds, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is a great place to buy vegetable seeds. You?ll find just about anything here! From tomatoes to grains to Brussels sprouts, they have it all! You can even find heirloom and open-pollinated seeds! They also have a huge collection of great gardening articles. 
Monday ~ March 03, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Greenhouse Gardening, Hard to Find Seeds, Organic Gardening, Serious Gardener, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
New Asparagus coming soon?
News.com reports that researchers at the University of California Riverside have bred a new type of asparagus that grows better in North America. The new variety, a hybrid bred from existing varieties of the vegetable, will essentially be more resistant to the vagaries of weather and water in North America and thereby give farmers in California a better chance at competing globally. Growing conditions are more optimal in Latin America, where labor is cheap too. Latin American nations also often more lightly regulate pesticide use.
Wednesday ~ February 02, 2006 by larsdh Posted in Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Tomatoes the Upside Down Way, with a Topsy Turvy
Although most people use them to grow tomatoes upside down, you can actually use the Topsy Turvy upside down planter to grow just about any kind of vegetable. Now you can achieve dramatic success growing tomatoes, other vegetables or even flowers from a small area. This planter is ideal for decks, patios, porches, balconies, or even hanging from a tree. You don’t have to dig any holes, or bend over to work or water. Weeding is eliminated. Feeding and watering is easy. You just pour it in to the top funnel while standing up. You don’t have to worry about tomato cages or stakes because the plants grow upside down with gravity. Plants grown upside down will curl upward, looking for the sun. It creates a very interesting and unusual plant with no ugly sprawling. Flowers look particularly interesting grown upside down. You can use several different Topsy Turvy planters at the same time. Grow tomatoes in one, green peppers in another, and flowers in a third one. The possibilities are unlimited. Upside Down Tomato Planter. $19.95 from Clean Air Gardening.
Sunday ~ February 02, 2006 by larsdh Posted in Vegetables | Add Your Comments
The EzGro Hydroponics System
Hydroponics is an unusual form of gardening that uses nutrient enriched water to grow plants instead of soil. This particular hydroponics system is unique in that it uses more vertical than horizontal space. This makes it a perfect growing tool for urban gardeners, as it allows you to grow you plants in a small nook of your house or apartment. Additionally, it doesn’t require electricity like many hydroponics systems. The EzGro Hydroponics System allows you to grow up to 20 plants, and works with anything from herbs, to tomatoes, to houseplants. Moreover, as your growing medium is water, you don’t have to worry about over or under-watering your plants. This is a great help, as many urban gardeners have less time than traditional gardeners to take care of their plants.
Friday ~ January 01, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Garden Tools, Gardening Lifestyle, Greenhouse Gardening, Houseplants, Organic Gardening, Serious Gardener, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
The Topsy Turvy Planter
Since the creation of the Topsy Turvy upside-down garden planter, urban gardeners have been celebrating and utilizing this unique device to grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers in very unusual places. For example, the vertical design of this planter allows you to grow crops on balconies, fire escapes, or even under a tree. Thanks to its distinctive design, the Topsy Turvy planter actually won Time Magazine’s “Invention of the Year” award in 2005. While the obvious advantage of an upside-down garden planter is that you can garden in a small corner of your home or patio, there are several other benefits. Gardening in this way means that don’t have to worry about weeding or digging out a garden plot. Moreover, as your plants never touch the ground, they are also less susceptible to pests, rodents, and diseases such as fungus rot. While many gardeners comment that they use this gadget to grow tomatoes, you can also use it to grow such common crops are cucumbers, herbs, bell peppers, and even flowers. Urban gardeners have also mentioned that their vegetables grow larger and more robust when using a vertical planter.
Friday ~ January 01, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Garden Tools, Gardening Lifestyle, Houseplants, Serious Gardener, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Innovative Spiral Tomato Cage
The Veggie Cage is an innovative gardening product that allows you to grow tomatoes and other veggies without having to tie the plant. It expands to 7 feet tall, but is never at risk of toppling over. You can even grow a variety of climbing flowers such as dahlias. Supports the entire plant, not just the base. Sturdy, strong, it’s downright manly! Can you handle it?
Wednesday ~ January 01, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Garden Tools, Gardening Lifestyle, Serious Gardener, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Prize Winning Tomatoes Book
Looking for a good read? Try out Jerry Baker’s Terrific Tomatoes, Sensational Spuds, and Mouth-Watering Melons: 1,274 Super Secrets for Growing Prize-Winning Vegetables. And try saying the title 3 times fast! There are lots of great gardening tips in this book (some say 1,274!), including lots of organic and natural gardening advice to get your tomatoes and other veggies to grow up big, fat, and happy. Available from Powell?s Books, America’s biggest, best, and thankfully independent bookstore!
Monday ~ December 12, 2005 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Texans Create Super Tomato Cage!
Check out these excellent Texas Tomato Cages which come in a variety of sizes and will last a lifetime, as they say on their website. They’re made of galvanized wire and fold up for quick storage. Pretty cool that these folks are running a successful small business with this simple product. Good for them! From the looks of it, this tomato cage is extremely well built. An excellent gift for the vegetable gardener. Your friend or relative may even thank you with a reciprocal gift of big fat home grown tomatoes!
Tuesday ~ November 11, 2005 by kswanson56 Posted in Vegetables | Add Your Comments
