Home Vegetable Garden

Growing your own vegetables is one of the most satisfying things you can do. It’s fulfilling on so many levels that sometimes I’m surprised its taken until now to really capture the public’s imagination. To start with, it’s excellent exercise, and gets you outside in the fresh air regularly.

How to Grow an Herb Garden For Beginners

Herb plants are vastly becoming popular because of their inherent natural medicinal and culinary value. Planting herbs or starting an herb garden, therefore follows suit. This endeavor is quite easy too because the only thing you need to consider is the location where you want to plant your herbs, whether indoors and outdoors, and providing the basic needs of plants in general such as good soil, sunlight, and regular water intake.

Bonsai Tree Presentation

Presentation is a very important consideration when growing a bonsai tree. While the actual design of the bonsai is a matter of the grower’s artistic inputs, there are some basic guidelines that are intrinsic to remaining faithful to the traditions of growing a Bonsai tree. These guide lines are broken down into three categories, the trunk, the branches and finally the pot.

Growing Climbing Roses to Further Beautify Your Garden

Now that your garden is complete let’s consider expanding it outward to the fence. Grow climbing roses to grace that drab looking fence to turn even the boundaries of your garden into an animated art form. No fence?

Vegetables Your Family Will Love to Eat

Making vegetables your family will love to eat is easier than you think. Vegetables are one food group that does not always get the best reviews and something people often do not eat enough of. Children certainly do not like to eat all the vegetables that are good for them. In my opinion the problem stems from the way the vegetables are prepared. No one gets too excited about boiled vegetables cooked with only salt, pepper, and butter for seasonings.

Garden Walling – Great Ideas to Enhance Your Property

To have a beautiful garden is like having a piece of heaven surrounding you all day. It gives us so much pleasure and space to relax and ponder our life. Garden walling can enhance such a garden even more.

Garden Gravel Can Beautify Your Landscape and Help Conserve Water

Garden gravel has always been a popular landscaping material. Its popularity is growing even more today. The color of the stone can vary greatly. Some popular colors are grey, black, white, and red.

A Smart Choice to Enclose Your Property

As cities are becoming an option for many to live and work in, having a garden is seen as a luxury in today’s society. If you are still one of the lucky ones, then garden walling is the best option should you be looking into enclosing your property. Let’s have a look at some great ideas for your garden:

Adding Beauty to Your Landscape With Garden Gravel

Garden gravel has been used for many years, but today is becoming even more popular. It has many colors ranging from grey, black, white, and even red. Larger stones can be incorporated into the landscape similar to statues. If designed properly, it can add much beauty to a yard or pathway.

Surrounding Your Flowers With Garden Gravel

If your home and garden center does not carry a vast selection of garden gravel for your every need, you should go to a stone quarry or gravel pit that sells to the public. You will find a choice that will allow your imagination to run wild.

Choosing Your Crushed Rock For Garden Gravel

You might be surprised at the selection of garden gravel you will have. If your home and garden center does not carry a large selection, you may need to go to a gravel pit or specialty outlet for more of a choice.

Garden Pergola Comes Up Smelling of Roses

If you’ve always been keen to start planting roses in your garden, but have simply never got around to it, then wait no longer. Late winter or early spring is the best time to start planting bare-root roses, although the exact time is largely dependent on where you live and the local climate.

Make the Most of Your Garden This Summer

Although it seems a while until the summer will be here again, in reality it will come around quicker than you think. Many people would love to spend more time in their garden during the summer months, but simply never find the time to pull on the gardening gloves and get their hands dirty.

Garden Planning Permission May Be Needed For Some Projects

If you own your own property and would like to make some major changes in the garden or yard area, you probably think since you own it, there should be no need to get any garden planning permission. Unfortunately that may not be the case at all.