Growing Methods

At the Home & Garden show and at the plant sale last month, one of the questions I was asked frequently was how to grow plants. Not necessarily about seed or maintenance, but containers versus open ground. Most people had interesting stories, but the most common issues that were brought to the forefront were lack of space and landlord requirements. Having lived on an Air Force Base for a large share of my life, I could understand the part about landlord requirements. Space is easy to understand, as well. Yards can be small and raises important questions.

Regardless of these two issues,...