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Vegetable gardening for small spaces

I am always encouraging people to vegetable garden. I think it is good for the person, the planet, and the pocketbook. Occasionally, someone will tell me that they do not have enough room for a veggie garden. Not one to be discouraged, I would like to share with you some space saving tips for growing vegetables in a small area.

The first tip is to interplant. With interplanting, you sow the seeds of slow and fast maturing crops together in the same garden section. The fast maturing vegetables will be harvested before the slow growing types come up. An example of this is planting radishes, a short-season, fast maturing crop, with carrots, a long-season, slow maturing crop. Another method is to alternate rows of fast and slow maturing vegetables such as planting leaf lettuce between rows of tomatoes.

Succession planting is another technique to consider. After one crop is harvested, you can plant another in the same space. This is a great method if you grow both cool-season and warm-season vegetables. Cool-season vegetables are those that grow better in cooler temperatures and will tolerate some frost. Such vegetables include leafy greens, radishes, spinach, cabbages, onions and peas. Warm-season crops, on the other hand, need warm soil temperatures and do not tolerate frost. Plants in this group include tomatoes, peppers, melons, sweet corn and eggplants. When cool-season vegetables are harvested, replant with some warm-season varieties.

Then there is the practice of growing food vertically. This involves the use of trellises, cages or stakes. For climbing plants like beans, cucumbers, and squash, train them to grow up on a fence or trellis. Tomatoes can be staked or caged to keep them upright. Allow yourself to get inspired with vertical gardening. Create a teepee for pole beans or plant a row of peas near an existing fence to add some greenery.

Also, look for bush-type cultivars of vining plants such as melons or squash. Bush forms produce fruit on shorter vines taking up less room in the garden than the standard varieties.

If you lack land to cultivate, don't despair. Many vegetables grow just fine in containers. All you need is a pot that provides good drainage and a sunny place to locate your vegetable garden. Container gardens need soil that will drain well but not dry out too quickly. Use a potting soil or "soilless" mix as they are more porous than garden soil and allow potted plants to grow roots more easily.

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1. Drew Barrymore

Back in 2005, Drew Barrymore was noticeably curvier than she is today and said she was definitely not a “Skinny Minnie.” With an on-and-off vegan diet and exercise plan, Drew’s kept the pounds off, but sometimes looks like she’s eased up. She’s said: “I’d rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life.”

2. Kevin Federline

K-Fed was slender when he called Britney Spears his wife (and often was spotted eating cheetos with her), but when he started to balloon, he signed up for VH1′s Celebrity Fit Club. After dropping weight from his 240 pound body, he also lost the nickname K-Fat, but based on this recent picture, he’s been hitting pizza and pasta too hard again.

3. Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson’s graced magazine covers multiple times exclaiming: “Weight loss!” “My diet journey!” “Great new shape!” She even once exclaimed she had lost 60 pounds in 4 months…which sounds unnatural. At the end of the day Janet struggles with maintaining her figure, and yo-yo’s like so many of us in ‘Merica.

4. Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn had a slim fig-ya back in 2004, and has since been up, down, and in between. In his fraternity Wedding Crashers day Vaughn was beefed up, but has since slimmed down — maybe it was the Jennifer Aniston curse…er, influence.

5. Tara Reid

Tara Reid’s weight is all over the place, but she’s one of the only celebs on our list who is never heavy. She fluctuates from healthily slim, to scary skinny — her current look. She’s also admitted to receiving bad breast implants, removing them, re-adding them…and then we got lost somewhere in the explanation.

6. Russell Crowe

Russell Brand’s yo-yo dieting can be mainly attributed to movie role demands. For 2008′s Body of Lies, he reportedly packed on 63 pounds, which is more than half of Tara Reid’s largest weight. He’s joked about scarfing down cheeseburgers for breakfast, which would explain the transformation.

7. George Clooney

Even the legendary Hollywood bachelor has his ups and downs, literally. George Clooney’s been looking slender as of late — but has been plumped up in the past. He’s said it’s as simple as adding “aerobics, a lot of dance, jazz-ercise, the ab-master… a lot of yoga.” Luckily enough for George, women freak out over him regardless.

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