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5 Common Balcony Gardening Mistakes

The following five mistakes are common to beginning balcony gardeners, as well as some more experienced gardeners. There are many more mistakes that gardeners can make, but here are five that you can easily avoid.

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3 Techniques for Overwintering Your Plants

Plant cuttingsIf you live in a cold area, many of your container plants will either die or need to be overwintered indoors. With balcony gardens, the easiest thing to do is plant annuals every spring and not worry about a winter garden. Several containers of hardy evergreens can make a winter balcony green, and the rest of the plants can be replanted next year. But if you do need to overwinter plants, there are three techniques you can use to do so.

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What's My Hardiness Zone?

Hardiness MapYou may have heard a lot about Hardiness Zones when it comes to plants that will survive in your climate, but Hardiness Zone maps can be a little difficult to read. Here are the Zones of the 20 most populated cities in the United States. (Click on the Hardiness Map to the right to see a larger version and to learn how to use it.)

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