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Q. Last year I made a small attempt at growing mainly vegetables and a few flowers in containers. I still have questions: When is a good time to sow or transplant outside in containers? How cold is ...

When it comes to creative hacks for growing veggies, gardeners will try almost anything to extend their growing season, make maintenance easier, and get bigger yields. With container gardening, ...

These small vegetable garden ideas will help you make the most of the growing space you have.

Perfectly ripened peas, beans, cucumbers, squash and much more are some of the benefits of growing your own edible plants. To conserve water, space and labor, they can be grown in containers near your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you want to plant vegetables but have limited outdoor space, a container garden is a great way to add freshly-picked produce to ...

And don’t forget that you can hang plants in containers or baskets designed for that purpose. That opens up a whole range of ...

What’s a great way to beat the February doldrums? I beat them with visions of an edible container garden growing right outside the kitchen door. That unused corner of the back deck gets plenty of ...

Editor's note: Chronicle staffer Jane Tunks, a novice gardener, is using The Chronicle's rooftop garden as her classroom, with Fred Bové and Kevin Bayuk from the San Francisco Permaculture Guild as ...