We have written a ton about gardens and gardening, and it's our featured topic this month. So we decided to roundup some of our best thoughts and inspiration from the past year. Jump below for gardening advice, how-tos and tips, cool products, and much more:

Container Gardening:

• Container Gardening: Don't Forget Drainage
• Food Map Containers: Portable Vegetable Gardening
• Container Gardening in Mother Earth News
• Container Gardening Inspiration: Edible Nasturtiums
• 5 Ways to Get Your Grow on in a Small Space
• Indoor Container Gardens for Small Spaces

How To Gardening

• How To Grown an Indoor Salad Greens Windowbox Garden
• How To Grow a Strawberry Windowbox
• How To: Make a One-Pot Indoor Herb Garden
• How To: Start a Green Roof Garden
• Grow Your Own Medicinal Herb Garden
• How To: Start a No-Dig Garden
• How To: Start a No-Dig Garden ... Step by Step
• How To: Grow Your Own Vegetable Garden
• How To: Make a Solar-Powered Garden Fountain
• How to: Grow 100 Pounds of Potatoes in 4 Square Feet

General Gardening Tips and Products:

• How to Choose Plants Wisely at the Nursery
• The Virtues of Companion Planting
• Plant Pest Remedies Straight from the Kitchen
• A No-Hassle Garden: Square Foot Gardening
• Olla Gardening: The Original Drip Irrigation System
• 5 Tips to Start a Garden
• Ecology-Minded Gardening
• Midwest Wildflower Seed Bombs
• Gardening: When In Doubt, Ask a Professional!
• Garden Products: More Raised Bed Collars and
• Donating a Garden Surplus
• Warning! High Lead Content in Urban Soil
• Look! Keep Your Garden Organized
• Garden Tip: Use Plants for Pest Control
• Do You Garden for Birds and Bees?
• Rosso’s Biodegradable Pots
• What's This Herb? Use Flickr for Garden Reference
• 5 Things You Might Not Know About Watering Plants
• 4 New Indoor Ways to Grow a Garden

Inspiration:

• Roundup: Garden Shed Offices
• 10 Inspiring Gardens for Growing Food in Small Spaces
• Green Style: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens
• Vegetable Garden Using Repurposed Furniture
• Inspiration: Garden Street Lofts
• Five Things That Make Us Want to Garden
• Green Style: Margaret Roach's Garden (first pics!)
• Etsy Find: Upcycled Garden Inspiration
• 3 Inexpensive Garden Paths
• Community Gardens: Boosting Local Harvest

Originally published 2009-06-11 - CB