Apartment Therapy Tagged: gardening

How to: 9 Steps to Planting a Tree

Most folks are aware of the benefits of planting more trees: carbon sequestering, erosion control, oxygen production, natural shade (save on A/C), privacy, noise control, wind block - the list goes on...

Interview: Rose's Sustainable Gardening Tips
Washington DC

Rose has become a local expert in green living, as explained in the recent house tour of her lovely solar home. Her garden has so many plants, flowers and trees that it almost hides her house! Bel...

Look! Vintage Refrigerator Drawer Planter

As renters, we can't justify buying a shmancy new vintage-looking, energy-efficient fridge (yet), so we live vicariously through this vintage crisper drawer reincarnated as a planter in our container ...

Drought Tolerant Plant: Bromeliads

If you're looking for a native plant, one that can provide brilliant colour, that thrives in all types of light (including varieties that thrive in full shade and full sun), indoors and out, and that'...

Look! Recycled Plastic Flower Pots

We're not exactly sure what these blue plastic flower pots used to be, but they certainly served some other purpose. We saw them as we were walking to the grocery store yesterday afternoon and grab...

If You Grow Just One Thing This Spring... Plant Arugula

We were at the greengrocer a couple months ago, slightly nonplussed because we couldn't find arugula yet. The girl at the counter told us that she just grows it herself; even through the winter, she ...

The Lemon Bonus

We've been helping a friend with a project for the past few weeks, and yesterday we received a great gift: the lemon bonus. That's lifetime rights to walk by and pluck a few organic lemons from her t...

How to Start a Green Roof Garden

Garden-lovers without backyards, go vertical! Such is the cry of a Park Slope resident who recently showed a crowd of New Yorkers (including yours truly) how to start a green roof garden. Since star...

Gardening Questions for Jennifer: Little Light and No Outdoor Space - What Can I Grow?

We asked you last week for your gardening questions for our friend and kitchen gardening expert Jennifer Bartley. Here's the first question - one that we've heard frequently from many of you! This is ...

Mason Bee House

Last year, one of the first things we discovered in our new home was a bee nest. It was in the midst of the uproar over the disappearance of the bee population and it killed us to think about destro...

Biodegradable Planter by Francois Clerc

This expanding planter, Graine de Pot, is the design of Francois Clerc. The design responds to the needs of urban gardeners with limited space for storing pots in the off-season and is made from a bio...

Green Ideas: Recycled Plastic Indoor Gardening Set

While you're waiting for the flowers to come up (like we definitely are), you and the kids can see some progress in just a few days when you plant your organic seeds in this recycled plastic gardenin...

Combatting Scale

We've mentioned a few times before that we're Novice gardeners (notice the capital "N"?). The previous owners of our little house were kind enough to leave us some fruit trees, but they didn't do su...

Garden Update

We had such high hopes. We really can't blame ourselves for this first attempt gone awry, what with the insane rains this winter. But we think the little seedings might have survived if the backyard...