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Article: Containers, tiny yards are just little challenges.
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- Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2005
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Byline: Mary Beth Breckenridge
AKRON, Ohio _ Dedicated gardeners won't let anything stand between them and the soil _ certainly not a trivial inconvenience like lack of land.
When you have the soul of a plant person, you find a way.
Gardening with little or no land is a matter of imagination, resourcefulness and sometimes spunk. It's a challenge, but one that gardening enthusiasts such as Jeph Remley embrace.
Remley has squeezed vegetables, herbs and raspberries among the tulips and pansies that fill two planting beds he created in the tiny yard behind his Tallmadge, Ohio, condominium. Strawberry plants sprout from plastic growing bags ...