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• Home
• Welcome to the World of Container Gardening
• Choosing a Container
• Selecting Soil Mixes
• Considering Environmental Factors
• Creating Four Season Containers
• Choosing and Combining Plants
• Making Herb and Vegetable Container Gardens
• Watering
• Fertilizing
• Grooming Basics
• Building Successful Containers
• Blueprints for Building Containers
• Troubleshooting Cultural Disease and Insect Problems
• Constructing and Caring for Container Water Gardens
• Making Hanging Baskets
• Landscaping with Containers
• Growing Vines in Containers
• Topiary
• Overwintering Plants and Containers
• Container Garden Whimsy
• Credits

Credits

Successful Container Gardens was developed by:

Nancy Pollard

Extension Educator, Horticulture

Cook County Unit

pollard@illinois.edu

Jane Scherer

Extension Specialist, Web Coordination/Urban Programming

Office of Extension Web Development

jscherer@illinois.edu

Greg Stack

Extension Educator, Horticulture

Cook County Unit

gstack@illinois.edu

We wish to thank Ball Horticultural Company for their support and assistance in the development of this website.