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	Gardening Articles: Landscaping :: Container Gardening & Ponds Features Maintaining Container Gardens By National Gardening Association Editors These simple maintenance tasks keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for... more More Features: Ornamental Grasses Rose Marie Nichols McGee Ornamental Grasses Search and Browse: Browse all articles in this topic Zip to Zone To find out your zone enter your zip and click "Go >" Tip of the Day Cage Tomatoes Vigorous tomato varieties need to be supported to keep plants and fruit off the ground. For the simplest support construct a 6-foot-high, 3-foot-diameter cylindrical wire cage around the plants and anchor it to the ground.