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Gardening
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Plants and Seeds
Growing Indoors
Seed Starting
Outdoor Gardening
Plants and Seeds
Plants and Seeds
I love these, they taste good and look so dramatic on something like a margherita pizza.
Dark Purple Opal Basil Seeds - Baker Creek
These are one of my fav peppers I've grown. They produce abundantly, are a pretty color, and a nice heat level but also tasty/sweet :)
Sugar Rush Peach Hot Pepper Seeds - Baker Creek
I don't really like the flavor of these but they look incredibly cool on the plant or in a jar. As the name implies they shift from purple to tan to yellow to orange to red and it's rather stunning. I would recommend this more as a decorative pepper ...
Chinese 5 Color Pepper Seeds
These are normally flame roasted until the skin is black and splitting and then put into a bag so they steam themselves, at which point you can peel the skin off easily and use the flesh in whatever stew or sauce you want. My family uses them to make...
Big Jim Hatch Peppers
This variety of corn is more the kind you'd use for popcorn, but honestly it's so pretty I couldn't bear to turn it into anything. They come out incredibly gorgeous mixtures of color and I just dried them and used them for decoration!
Glass Gem - Native-Seeds-Search
I grew these one year and they've come back up the past 3 years, I love these and watching peanut plants grow and develop was way more fun than I expected, and they taste great too!
Tennessee Red Peanuts
I love making butternut squash soup and macaroni, and my partner enjoys a good zucchini. The trick to picking a good summer squash is to not let them get too big that they taste watery, the trick to picking a good winter squash is to not let there be...
Squash Seeds - Zucchini, Butternut, Scallop, Winter, Summer
Snake plants are really good if you don't have much lighting but still want a plant around. They'll grow really slowly without light but can still be pretty happy.
Snake Plant
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Snake plants can come in a few different colors/patterns. Like I mentioned on the other one, they're really good for low light situations, such as indoors.
Sansevieria Snake Plant (Yellow Edges)
I keep a peacock/cathedral windows plant on my desk at work and I haven't had too much issue with it. It grows happily and I have to divide it about once a year to keep it small, but it's very low maintenance. I've heard from other people they're har...
Peacock Plant in 6 in. Grower Pot
I picked up a little pothos from Home Depot about 6 months ago and it's just been happily chilling on my desk ever since. It's grown an adventurous little vine out several inches but hasn't gone too far that it's unmanagable. Hasn't needed too much a...
Pearl and Jade Pothos Plant in 6 in. Grower Pot
Spider plants (aka Air Plants) were found by NASA to be one of the best plants at cleaning the air of pollutants. These were also the first plant I ever started growing, when a neighbor gave me one when I was 7. I still have the babies from that plan...
Spider Plant
I get a lot of complements on the swiss cheese plant I have at work but it really likes to travel. If you want a plant that you can use the vines as drapes then this plant is for you.
Swiss Cheese Plant Monstera Adansonii
Chocolate mint smells like Girl Scout Thin Mints. The number one rule with mint though, never ever plant it directly in your yard. Keep it in a pot, and enjoy this deliciously scented plant whenever you want.
Chocolate Mint Herb Plant
Did you know watermelon doesn't just come in pink? I've tried yellow watermelon and tbh it's pretty much the same, but yellow!! It's cool :P
Yellow Meat Watermelon Plant
I got one of these from home depot about 6 months ago, and I really like how dramatic the colors are. It's pretty easy to grow so long as you don't overwater it.
Alocasia Bambino
Growing Indoors
My desk at work is often referred to as a jungle, and I've made several indoor grow setups
Doesn't have to be exactly this one, but a lot of plants - especially the tropical ones people tend to have indoors - love humidity, but of course you don't want to make your living space muggy and damp. These tiny humidifiers only effect a foot or s...
Small Cool Humidifier
Plant saucers are great for keeping pots with holes from messing up your flooring, staining your patio/porch, or anything like that. You can even tuck them inside the bottom of a pot with a hole if you have an interior pot within the decorative pot.
Planter Saucers - The Home Depot
If your plants are indoors, or if you're seed starting, you'll want to supplement the light they get with a grow light. I actually have a grow light like this attached to my desk at work to keep my plants happy and it makes such a huge difference in ...
Plant Light
While I had my indoor greenhouse case custom made by a friend who knows how to woodwork and weld, not everyone has access to those two partcular skills. If you are still rather crafty though I've seen other people turn Ikea or similar display cases i...
Glass/acrylic display cases
Grow light strips are another good way to get your plants the light they need, if you don't want the clip-on gooseneck type of lights.
Grow Light Strips
Seed Starting
Things that help with seed starting
I really like these because, as opposed to using flimsy nursery pots, I can use these year after year, and they come with a nice tray underneath so when they outgrow the little pods you can size up to a bigger pot but still keep them in the tray to w...
SuperSeed Seed Starting Tray, 16 XL Cell - Burpee
Outdoor Gardening
For the gardener with outdoor space
Water timers are so useful for making outdoor and indoor gardening more hands off. You can go away on vacation and trust your plants will have water. I would recommend attaching a water hammer arrestor above the splitter to prevent water damage as th...
4-Zone Water Timer
When using automated watering systems, you want to use a water hammer arrester so that the force of the water stopping suddenly doesn't harm your pipes.
Water Hammer Arrester
When setting up an automated gardening system, if you just have one spigot you'll probably want to split it into two, one for your regular hose and one for your automated system.
Hose Splitter
I got this cute little potting bench with a hidden bin for dirt/water. It's light enough that I as a 5'1" woman could put it together on my own in less than an hour an move it where I wanted. The wood comes unfinished so I'd recommend picking up some...
Potting Bench
I've been using smart pots/fabric pots for years now and I really like them. They're in theory better for plants, because plants supposedly terminate their roots when they hit air, so as air flows through the mesh of the bag the roots terminate rathe...
Fabric Pots