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Do you enjoy strolling through the local garden center to see what is new like I do? All the major chains like Lowe's Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target all have the garden departments with a wide variety of plants, pots, rocks, soils, fertilizers and garden tools.As wide of a variety that these chains possess they never seem to carry exactly what I'm looking for. For example, why empty out the wallet on a plant at a specialty garden store when one of the big boxes sells something 'close' at about half the price?I've been working on a plant watering project lately and wanted to find some LECA rocks (Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate) to replant some houseplants in. This project will be removing houseplants from soil and completely replacing the media with rock all in an effort to simplify house plant care. Basically creating a simple self-watering container for the plant to grow in.There is a Super Wal-Mart and Home Depot within 5 minutes of where I live and a Lowe's 20 minutes away. The Wal-Mart and Home Depot are huge stores. After spending some time in each of the garden departments they do carry a good array of basics. In .. more »

If you are a city dweller it is likely that you think as most people do, that you cannot grow vegetables in the city because there is not enough space available. Even if you live in an apartment, condo or even trailer you can still grow vegetables by making use of container vegetable gardening.Growing vegetables in containers is indeed possible and thus you can create your own container vegetable garden. You will just need to ensure that certain elements are met such as providing at least five hours of sunlight to the plants each day and that the correct size of container is used with a good soil mixture. Furthermore you will need to make sure that adequate spacing, fertilizing and watering is provided to your plants regularly.The Size Of Container, Spacing And PlantingWhat determines the size of the container you need to use is the particular types of vegetable you intend to plant or grow as you need to consider pace for the roots to develop properly although in general, almost any vegetable can be grown in containers. For vegetables that have shallow roots like lettuce, radish and peppers the containers that they should be grown in would be .. more »