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Garden Grow?

Growing your own food and flowers can be a healthy endeavor. Gardening provides great exercise, natural beauty, organic food, and a sense of accomplishment. It also requires patience as you wait for the fruit of your labor to manifest.

Not everyone has the good fortune of having acreage enough to cultivate a large garden, but even those with limited space can utilize patio planters and indoor pots to enjoy a touch of beauty or a taste of nature.  For example, tomatoes grow quite well in a large container or small garden plot.

You can grow tomatoes just about anywhere in your yard as long as they get at least eight hours of sunlight each day. Since they are above ground and dry out quickly, you will need to keep a close check on the watering. Mature plants benefit from water every day and sometimes twice daily if the soil seems dry.

Since tomato plants get rather large, you may want to support them to keep the stalks from breaking as they bear fruit. And, a water-soluble fertilizer such as Peters 20-20-20 or Miracle Grow 15-30-15 may be used once a week at the recommended rate.

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Nearly 10.4 million firms are owned by women employing more than 12.8 million people, and generating $1.9 trillion in sales.
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