Aaah, when I lived in the city, I longed for a garden of my own. I had a tiny little deck that overlooked a manmade pond. What I didn’t know then was that I had all I needed to grow a garden right there outside my sliding glass door.
If you live in an apartment, you can grow a vegetable garden the very same way I grow MY vegetable garden. I might have a big yard, but the way I plant and grow my veggies is the same way you can …

I have probably said this before, but the sun is brutal down here in south Texas.  BRUTAL.  So I do some of my gardening indoors.   The easiest vegetable to grow indoors, in my opinion, is lettuce.  Growing lettuce in a container takes very little work, very little space, and it grows very quickly.
Here’s how I grow my lettuce in a container indoors:
I use a shallow container (it’s a plastic dishpan, actually), and I filled it with potting soil.  I planted eight little lettuce seeds (two per quadrant).  When the pairs …

Herbs aren’t just edible. They’re also drinkable. The leaves, flowers, and roots of most edible herbs can be steeped in hot water to make herbal teas. Before I started container gardening, I tried growing an herbal tea garden directly in the ground. I have to say that growing a tea garden in containers is scads easier. Herbs grown directly in the ground require more care, affect one another’s flavors, and–in the case of the spearmint I grew–took over the entire garden. By the end of the season, the spearmint had …

Carrots are my youngest child’s favorite thing to grow and eat.    It’s fun to watch him excitedly pull the carrots out of the ground when they are ready to harvest.  The first time he helped me with the garden, he was two years old.  When he harvested his first carrot, he ran to my husband and said, “Daddy! Look what I made!”   Container gardening is such a rewarding experience for me.  Not only is it fun to actually make food, from seed to dinner, it’s such a delight to see …

Cilantro is one of the easiest herbs to grow in a container. It also grows just as easily indoors as it does outdoors. I have had large pots overflowing with cilantro even without the use of fertilizer.
Growing Cilantro in a Container
Fill a pot with potting mix and sprinkle some cilantro seeds on the surface of the soil. Get a small handful of additional potting soil, and sprinkle it loosely on top of the seeds.  Water using a spray bottle full of water until the seeds germinate. After that, water as …