Small Water Features
No contemporary garden would be complete without introducing water somewhere in the design. With modern equipment, small water features are easy to install. Creating a water feature used to require considerable planning and some serious excavation, but the development of easy to install kits and reliable low voltage submersible pumps means that even a novice can build an attractive, working feature in less that a day. Of course, careful planning is advisable to avoid errors, but once you have decided on a suitable position, the time required to install a water feature is short.
Three Tips for Building Vegetable GardenLonging for having own vegetable garden? That’s good idea, some people worry about the danger caused by harmful chemicals regularly sprayed to vegetables by commercial growers. Owning vegetable garden will help people stay healthy with organic foods produced. Besides, you will have your favorite meals ready to eat and fresh with no toxic.
How To Start An Asparagus Bed The Easy WayAsparagus is a perennial, which means it grows every year rather than only one or two years. It is also a fern. We eat the tips of the fern before they open up. What we plant are actually the roots of the fern, not seed, and that’s why it can be difficult to start an asparagus bed – lots of digging!
How To Begin Growing TomatoesThese days, if you look around your community you will find a lot of homegrown gardens full of plump tasty looking vegetables. More often than not, in the warm summer days people are growing their own carrots, broccoli, peas, cauliflower, yellow and green beans, and even growing tomatoes.
Seed Saving – How to Save Money in an Organic GardenTested ways to germinate seeds more reliably. How to make sure that all the seed we sow will germinate. Plus how to develop a new heirloom vegetable variety
How to Build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon at Your HomeThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a terraced garden with splendid plants and beautiful fountains, symbolizes love and shows how strong the love of Nebuchadnezzar II (the king of Babylon) to his wife, Amytis. It’s unique and attractive with flourishing flowers and lush plants on desert place. A desert place? It seems impossible to grow plants on that kind of area. We need a great supply of water to make an oasis through desert. How can it be?
When to Prune Roses? Know Your Basics to Get the Rose Garden of Your DreamsFor those who are actively cultivating roses in flowering pots or in the ground, there are certain things that need to be known. One of the most important things is when to prune roses. You must know the correct time when you should go about doing the pruning job.
Pruning Tomato Produced Big Quality Fruits?Pruning is a new technology applied to some specific crops, most especially vegetables to increase fruit size, healthy growth and avoid fungal disease infection. Vegetables that needs to be pruned includes the cucurbits (pumpkins, bitter gourd, luffa, melons, etc.) and solanaceous (tomato, eggplant, pepper, etc.) families. These vegetable crops are susceptible to fungus and bacteria attack in their entire growth period.
3 Bonsai Lessons That Could Drastically Improve Your LifeBonsai is an ancient Japanese art that directly translates as “Tray cultivation” often it is confused with “dwarfing” but bonsai do not use genetically modified miniatures of existing species, instead it focuses on cultivation and growing of trees from from regular stock and seeds, using techniques such as pruning, root reduction, wiring and grafting to produce mimics of full size, fully matured trees. With bonsai the focus is geared towards long time care and observation, often trees are passed down through generations, and the “final look” could take more than…
A Professional Way For Growing TomatoesGardening is a hobby for some people. They like to have a small garden in their yard and grow some beans, lettuce, cabbage, or some other vegetable to put on the table. Growing tomatoes is a source of pride for most gardeners. It puts a stamp on whether a growing season was successful or not.
Nine Clever and Easy Ways to Germinate Garden Seeds FasterHere are nine clever tips for germinating garden seeds faster than you thought possible. And for growing more garden plants. The faster your garden seeds germinate, the sooner you’ll have plants!
Tips on Worm Farms – Setting Up Your Composting Pals’ HomeIf you want to help in minimizing the landfill accumulation of wastes, then recycling what you can would be one good thing to practice on. You may even work your way up into doing some composting at home. Apart from that, there are also many types of composting; and one is by using composting worms. Now, this is where you need a worm farm, setting it up comes into the picture.