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Posts tagged “Herb/Vegetable Gardening”

Deal Alert: AeroGrow AeroGarden Half Off at Amazon

We just got this deal alert from Amazon and thought it was worth passing on. The AeroGarden is half off today - down from a list price of $199 to a sale price of $99. More about this clever indoor gar...

San Francisco: Victory Garden Project

Starting yesterday, Slow Food Nation has begun stripping up the sod in front of San Francisco's City Hall in preparation of planting a large victory garden. With food prices rising and arable land sh...

Garden Solutions: Cheap and Creative Planters for Tomatoes, Strawberries, and Beans

Still thinking about a garden? It's not too late to start! You can still buy a few herb plants or even start late summer greens from seed in a container garden. Sonia of our sister site Unplggd turns ...

Thursday Giveaway: Power Plant Mini from Prepara

Giveaway: Three Power Plant Minis from Prepara Find it: Buy through Prepara directly for $39.99 We have a treat of a giveaway for you today. We have been looking forward to this ever since we saw thi...

Seasonal Spotlight: Shiso

One of our favorite herbs is shiso, which is also known as Japanese basil, perilla and beefsteak. It's been showing up in big, healthy bunches at the Alemany Farmer's Market recently - this bunch in ...

Good Idea: Growing Potatoes In A Bag

Last week, we opened the kitchen pantry door to grab a new bag for the compost bin, and noticed these strange white tube-like things poking through the shelf. Wha? Upon closer inspection, we discove...

Vegetable Gardens on Wheels: Food Map Containers

We saw these garden tubs on wheels over at AT:Chicago yesterday and thought you all might enjoy seeing them too. This is a very clever idea, and after all the years we've spent dragging huge pots back...

Window Box Sale at Smith & Hawken

We're still on a window box kick, dreaming of hanging our herb garden out the window soon. Are you with us? Well, here's a sale alert for you. Smith & Hawken's window boxes are 20 percent off righ...

Fun in the Garden: Sprouting Hearts, Pets, and Eggs

Garden Month is swinging along, and we're watching our little seed pellets carefully for the first sign of a sprout. Gardening, especially starting seeds, brings out the most childlike in most of us; ...

Good Product: Expanding Peat Pellets for Starting Seeds

Peat pucks! How did we not know about these before? In previous seasons we started seeds in little pots of dirt, carefully digging them up when they were ready to transplant. But that was one more bag...

Video: Demonstrating the Prepara Herb-Savor
International Home and Housewares Show 2008

Prepara is a small company based right in New York City. They make sleek, modern-designed kitchen tools that try to answer old problems in new ways. We had seen one of their signature products, ...

Hot or Not: The Garden Patch

With its self-contained growing space and guaranteed results, the Garden Patch container growing system seems like a dream come true for apartment dwellers who are hungry for some green space of their...

Hot or Not: Chia Herb Garden

A family member gave this to us for our birthday, and we have to say, this is not the Chia we remember from our childhood. It grows herbs, not "fur" on a puppy or "hair" on a cartoonish bald man. ...

Good Product: Trio Herb Pot

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day and Spring, this cheerful and bursting-with-green Trio Herb Pot from A+R Store is perfect for our windowsill....

Petit Coco Herb Pots from Three Potato Four

We've talked about some of the things we love at Three Potato Four, a charming vintage emporium. Here's a new item for them - an ideal set of herbs for the kitchen. Details and ideas for taking the ...

Herb Growing Tater Pots

Looking for something green in your kitchen as leaves fall outside? These Tater Pots from Fred Flare come ready with soil and seeds to start herb seedlings for an indoor kitchen garden. Choose from ...

Live Herb Plants Make an Instant Garden

Looking for instant paradise or at least some fresh home-grown herbs for your fire escape? If you can't make it to the local nursery or farmers' market, there's an alternative. You can shop onlin...

Self-Watering Pots for Your Herbs

Sun is shining, weather is getting warmer...If you're like us, this means you're probably going batty with the seed catalogs, envisioning how prolific your window-box garden will be this summer. Th...