Ginger wrote into Ask Gardenerd this week to ask about the best soil for tomatoes in containers, and for pollinating tips.
Our latest YouTube video shows you step-by-step how to repot lemongrass plants that have become sad and overgrown. Fix your root-bound pots and get ready for abundant growth.
Our container garden glow up continues in our latest YouTube video. This week: irrigation, filling the beds, and transplanting overgrown, sad container plants into the new planters.
In our latest YouTube video, our neglected hodgepodge of pots was waterlogged and root-bound. Christy shares this fantastic upgrade to Vego Garden planter beds.
Every year in winter our mint pot starts to looks sad, dormant and, let's face it, dead. But if you look closely there is evidence that it is still alive.
This week on the Gardenerd YouTube channel, we share tips for re-potting edible perennials like artichokes for continued success.
This week, as our artichokes start to send up signs of life, we share our tricks for how to grow artichokes - not aphids. Christy shares her tips for choosing whether to grow in the ground, containers or raised beds. She also gives you tips on how to keep aphids off your artichokes as they begin to produce.
Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we chat with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening.
A lot of new gardeners started their Coronavirus gardens in containers, so here's a helpful video on how to set up basic drip irrigation for containers and small spaces. Drip irrigation is like LEGOs; you can make any system you want if you have all the parts.
Here's a cool question that came into Ask Gardenerd this week: "Hi Christy, When transplanting plants grown in pots, I usually find large sections of soil that are dry and hard, often near the bottom, but not always. I've tried pushing small sticks into the soil to create a channel for water to follow, but it hasn't helped significantly. Do you have any suggestions on how to keep soil in pots watered evenly? Thanks, Jeff Bremer" Solutions for Compacted Soil…