Installing a Drip Irrigation System for Raised Beds 💦 (Before & After)

Flower gardening is a pleasurable affair and what could bring more joy than seeing a beautiful butterfly fluttering around your garden! This is the reason that butterfly gardening has become one of the most popular hobbies today. Use of hydroponics will ensure you have flourishing and blooming floral plants in your butterfly garden.

A Bokashi compost bin is the perfect addition to any kitchen. It’s a great way of reducing waste, and getting rid of those nasty smells which linger around our garbage. Here are 7 reasons why I think a Bokashi bin makes a perfect kitchen compost bin

How does hydroponic gardening work? Hydroponic gardening involves growing plants without any type of soil or planting medium. Most people put plants into the ground or pots with some sort of soil. With hydroponics, you use a special planting structure that supports the plant at the point where the roots emerge.

Autumn colors are giving way to falling leaves and with eco-friendly fall upkeep ideas in mind, the leaf blowers are tucked away and the rakes are handy. Even if there is curbside pick-up available in your area, it is still beneficial to save those leaves to make your own compost pile.

Bright, durable and utilized in most electronics and even to help plants mature, they are known as Light Emitting Diodes or simply LEDs, and these small lights have changed the electronics industry. Computer systems and small electronics were the first products to use LED lights as electrical components, and helped pave the way for these lights to be used to help plants grow. Fluorescent bulbs once ruled the market for electrical components and acted as the main source of light for electrical equipment for computer systems and small home electronics. Even when the earliest LEDs were introduced, they were restricted to the color red, as red was also the cheapest color for companies to order.

Those fortunate enough to enjoy the warmth and comfort of a fireplace or wood stove know this wonderful benefit comes with a drawback. The drawback is after the wood burns it becomes ash and must be disposed of. Read further for a way to benefit from all that ash.

You put a lot of work into preparing a new garden bed. Now it’s time to start planting. There are still a few more things to do before actually planting your flowers, vegetables, or flower bulbs.

If you are a gardener yourself I bet you can think of a thousand and one things you would like on your Christmas list. However, for non-gardeners, buying the perfect gift for the gardener in their life can be a daunting prospect often resulting in a useful if unimaginative garden centre voucher. So, if you have a garden related gift to buy this Christmas and you aren’t sure where to start, here a few ideas that are both practical and imaginative and also won’t break the bank!

We all love natural perfumes in the wild or enjoyed in our own gardens. An inhalation of sweet scent is elevating to the spirit or a comfort to our soul.

Some of the questions that will be answered are: Is there a setup that is similar to a solar pond but still works like an ebb-and-flow aquaponic system? Is there any way to get the same results with the plants without having to raise the fish? Why is an aquaponic setup needed to cultivate plants without soil?

Aronia melanocarpa, or Chokeberry is a hardy plant that is easy to grow. Your best buy is usually 2 year old plants. The optimum pH level to grow aronia is slightly acid (6-6.5). Typically two years after planting, Viking and Nero aronia varieties shrubs produce about two pounds of berries per bush. By the third year after planting, berry production is about 12 pounds per bush. Production levels off at around 35 pounds per plant by the fifth year.

I was reading a post over at “The Good Thing – About Gardening” called “Keeping Bugs Out of Your Garden”. It was discussing organic approaches to prevent pest problems instead of controlling them after the fact. My mind went to how this could apply to orchids, of course. My curiosity is your reward with these pest prevention tips.