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Telling fruits and vegetables apart might seem like a common-sense exercise. Sweet products like berries, apples, and bananas are called fruits, while savory products like spinach, squash, and tomatoes are called vegetables. In everyday usage we tend to label produce in terms of its culinary use, while a gardener might talk about a tomato plant that won't set fruit. This is because botanical labels and culinary labels aren't exactly the same, and some food we think of as a vegetable is actually a fruit.
Many apartment dwellers are taking up gardening, growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and other plants on their patios, balconies, rooftops, or even inside their apartments. No matter how tiny your apartment, there's room for a few plants. Read on for tips on how you too can have an apartment garden.
If you live in an apartment you may have a balcony, patio, window box or no space at all for growing a garden. Yet the joy of gardening shouldn't be denied to apartment dwellers. Here are some suggestions on how to design an apartment garden.
