Extending Gardens With Containers | The Garden Home Challenge With P. Allen Smith
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Like these garden tips? Thumbs up above and Subscribe: http://bit.ly/WESiLs There's more tips from Allen where this came from: http://bit.ly/TOB0pg Want practical home and garden tips? http://bit.ly/Re297M Get the most out of your garden with plant containers! P. Allen Smith shows how using plant containers is a great way to fill out a garden of limited space or to extend a garden area. Containers offer a low-maintenance solution for growing plants, flowers, and vegetables, that look great on their own or as a complement to raised boxes. In the Garden Home Challenge, planning, design and craftsmanship converge when designer and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith and his colleagues build an environmentally friendly designer home for $150,000 in 150 days on his Moss Mountain Farm in Arkansas. Check back or subscribe for new episodes to track Allen's progress, get to know his team and see what it takes to build a beautiful home from start to finish. Have any questions for P. Allen Smith during the Challenge? He'll be answering your questions via regular video updates, so leave your comments and questions below! More from Allen: http://www.youtube.com/pallensmith P. Allen Smith is an award-winning designer and lifestyle expert and host of two public television programs, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens. Smith is one of America's most recognized and respected design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues. He is the author of the best-selling Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random House, including Bringing the Garden Indoors: Container, Crafts and Bouquets for Every Room and P. Allen Smith's Seasonal Recipes from the Garden. Allen is also very active on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Allen's Blog and YouTube as well as on the new eHow Home channel debuting January 2012. His design and lifestyle advice is featured in several national magazines. Learn more at http://www.pallensmith.com. Some More P. Allen Smith Videos You Might Like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcNFW_Uur3M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOIfdATZS8g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZArgJWdNtE
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Good video Allen! Specifically, what advice do you have for growing tomatoes in containers?
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Have you taken a position on GMOs? Thank you.
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You know, I have great success with Black Gold potting soil so I definitely recommend that for container gardens. Hope this helps!
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Allen, your garden is looking more and more like an English garden. The container gardens are a great idea since, as someone said already, you're able to move them around to capitalize on sunlight and bring them in when the season changes. But the biggest advantage I think for having them is less maintenance.
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I used containers for the first time this year because I was able to move with the sun since much of my space is blocked by neighboring trees. I had cucumbers galore, did do so well with yellow crook neck squash though. I think the soil I used was not for containers. I took away the drain pan thinking it was not a good idea. Will use drain pan next year because during the hot months I had a hard time keeping up with the watering using BIG pots. Do u recommend a soil made by miracle grow Thanks
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Trust me, most people who have English as a 1st language don't even HAVE a second language at all, let alone a few. So you're way up there on that one already. About the containers and freeze: remember you can also move your containers, protect them with cover and use various options for freeze. I use containers all over the world, northern and southern hemispheres included and even that I have no "green-fingers" like my sister, I find containers a glory to use in both large and small gardens.
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It looks great, but what about the winter. Are the plants in containers not freeze? Sorry for my bad language ...
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