Constructing a root cellar to store produce from the garden.

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12. I've grown some veggies and flowers

at most places where I've lived, even when we rented. My husband's job required us to relocate a number of times. But I never gardened on the scale that my father did. Usually it was tomatoes and green peppers, sometimes also broccoli and cauliflower. For flowers, I planted marigolds and zinnias along the borders between lawn and sidewalk.

Can't do it any more in a 6 story city apartment building. I tried raising indoor tomatoes one year, with no success. Ended up with beautiful plants that never flowered or produced fruit. But I have several indoor plants. I've learned that, for flowering plants, petunias work best in my apartment. I had one that lasted from spring well into December and had to be moved to make room for Christmas decorations. Too bad that it was purple and not red.