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Don’t be shy
about snipping
off the leaves
of your favorite
fresh herbs for
cooking.
Gardening:
Grow Yourself a Pot o’ Herbs
Eliminate weeding with container
gardening
by Frank Kourt,
Staff Writer
The older I get,
the more wisdom
I find in growing things in pots on or near my
patio.
For one thing, container gardening virtually eliminates weeding. The few weeds that grow in
my containers are easily spotted
and plucked, saving a lot of bending, not to mention mulching and
battling unwanted flora such as
the ubiquitous Virginia creeper,
whose toxic oxalic acid gives me
contact dermatitis (translation:
an itchy rash on my arms).
Container gardening is not the
answer to growing all veggies,
however. We tend to use containers for such things as tomatoes
and peppers, whose plants behave
themselves and don’t wander
all over Kingdom Come, unlike
squash, pumpkins or cucumbers.
(Yes, I still plant my cucumbers
in the ground, among the everinvading Virginia creeper.)
We’ve found another great use
for container gardens: gr