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Updated: March 31, 2026
Growing Microgreens and Baby Greens Indoors
Learn how to grow microgreens and baby greens as a healthy, low-cost, easy homegrown vegetable crop you can produce indoors.
Updated: March 31, 2026
Growing Vegetables in Containers and Salad Tables
Learn what factors to consider when growing vegetable plants in containers: location, container size and material, potting mix type, and suitable crops. Explore how to build and use Salad Tables and Salad Boxes, which are homemade shallow containers used for growing leafy greens or herbs.
Updated: March 26, 2026
Growing Vegetables in Raised Beds
Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of using raised beds to grow vegetables, the materials commonly used to build the beds, and what soil to fill them with.
Updated: March 23, 2026
Growing Vegetables in Containers
How to grow food in small spaces using containers
Updated: August 27, 2024
Growing Blueberries in Containers
Blueberries can be grown in containers provided they are given the proper care.
Updated: March 8, 2024
Growing Vegetables in Salad Tables™ or Salad Boxes™
Do you love the idea of eating home-grown salads from April through November? There are two types of container gardens that will enable you to produce fresh, flavorful greens close to your backdoor without the need to dig in the soil.
Updated: March 4, 2024
Self-Watering Containers
How to convert 5-gallon buckets into self-watering containers. Build a bucket garden!
Updated: March 4, 2024
Growing Herbs in Containers and Indoors
Growing herbs indoors and in containers