Maximizing Your Space: Essentials for Crafting a Vibrant Urban Garden in Compact Areas

February 22, 2024

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Cultivating an urban garden in the limited square footage of city dwellings is an eco-friendly pursuit that brings fresh flavors to your kitchen. Growing your own is a cost-conscious and healthier alternative to store-bought produce,
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Smart Gardening Tool For Newbie Urban Gardeners

January 13, 2016

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So you suddenly find yourself at the intersection of knowing and growing, an urban purlieu where creativity, knowledge, and gardening meet. 2015 Red Dot Award-winning design concept, New Zealand industrial design student Alex Hofmans-Walter’s Planter is a seed dispenserRead More...

The Garden Harvesting and Clearing Bag You Wear

December 3, 2015

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The perfect gardener’s companion, The Gardener’s Hollow Leg is a hands-free debris and garden harvesting bag you wear so gardening doesn’t wear you out.

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Always at your side, it quickly and easily straps to your waist enabling you to carry … Read More...

Refresh Your Garden Design with Color, Texture & Form (& Enter Contest to Win Colorful Dramm Garden-Watering Duo!)

November 3, 2013

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This just in: the beautiful garden book, Refresh Your Garden Design, is now on the scene. The book is latest work of California garden designer Rebecca Sweet, owner of Harmony in the Garden and … Read More...

Gardening Chair Offers Mobility for Aging Green Thumbs

January 18, 2013

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Many gardeners will continue to dig in and garden well into their golden years, but let’s face it, squatting and kneeling down doesn’t usually get easier with age. California designer Han S. Hong’s concept for an OXO gardening chair is … Read More...

Toying With Urban Gardening?

April 2, 2010

Plantoy’s designer, Elodie Delassus, says she was inspired to create the product because most urban people dream about a natural space at home, but that requires the time, knowledge, and attention that many don’t have.

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Take a Spin in the Vegetable Garden

March 2, 2010

Is your head spinning with all the information out there? If you want to simplify things, try The Vegetable Garden Wheel, edited by one of America’s leading horticulturists, Ruth Rogers Clausen. The wheel offers an education for new vegetable … Read More...

Modern Urban Garden Tools for Gardeners on the Go

February 22, 2010

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Functional and compact, these aesthetically conceived contemporary gardening tools, designed for American agri-industry brand John Deere by Mexican designers Richard Gomez and Veronica Heredia Otero, are great even for those without … Read More...

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