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Getting started with a garden can be confusing, especially if you live in an area with less than ideal soil conditions for growing fruits and vegetables. There are many methods to build gardening beds; which one is the best for you? Read on for the top three methods of building a garden bed.

Many visitors to Thailand from temperate climates are surprised to find Thai orchids being sold on the side of the road suspend from overhead racks in just a crude bamboo basket full of charcoal, or a wooden frame with no planting material at all. However with epiphytic orchids of the type grown in Thailand the primary role of the roots’ is to act as an anchor point to trees or rocks, with the leaves performing the role of food manufacturing. Orchid plants with roots several meters long is not uncommon.

Introduction Organic gardening, worldwide, has grown from an eco-friendly, sustainable hobby to a ways and means for many families, if not communities to supplement or replace conventional suppliers of their fruits and vegetables. This type of gardening uses natural substances and friendly predators and forbids the use of man-made chemical fertilizers and pesticides. One type of Organic Gardening is vegetable gardening. Starting your own vegetable garden can provide inexpensive, sustainable, nutritious and healthy produce for families and communities relative to what they can obtain from commercial resources: Supermarkets and local green grocers, etc. With some hand/power gardening tools, a section of your yard (or in the case of community gardens, disused/vacant city lot), Organic seeds, water, Organic pest control, and Weeding; starting your own vegetable garden by following a few easy steps. This article provides you with 7 key steps to help you start your own organic vegetable garden so you can supplement your family (community) with nutritious, healthy and affordable produce.

As the days become shorter and the plants in the garden start to die off, many of us turn to the garden center or nursery to look for ways to brighten up our homes. Fresh flowers from the florist are often expensive at this time of the year, so it makes sense to invest in some well-chosen flowering houseplants that will give you pleasure as you watch them grow and flower throughout the winter months. This is the season when mass-produced “gift” plants come into their own begonias, cyclamen, kalanchoes, and Christmas cacti.

Most garden plants are at their best at this time of and there are many varieties that you can bring indoors to decorate your home, including roses, busy lizzies, lilies, marguerites, and fuchsias. Be careful of displaying your plants on a south-facing windowsill in summer. Although plants may be happy there in winter when the sun is at its weakest, most varieties will scorch and dry out during the hot noon summer sun.

As soon as Christmas is over, and all the decoration have been cleared away, how nice it is to see the early spring bulbs and spring flowering houseplants in the garden centers. While many bulbs re traditionally considered as outdoor features, some can be grown successfully indoors. Bulbs, such as dwarf narcissi, crocus, and hyacinths appear in the stores in bud well before any of the- spring bulbs in gardens show through.

Leaves, as mush as flowers, contribute to the attractiveness of houseplants, and you can create some excellent displays using a selection of small-leaved plants just as easily as the more dramatic, architectural-leaved varieties When growing plants with small, fine leaves, you may have to group them together if the plants are naturally small, or still in their infancy, but once they reach full size, they look imposing in their own right. If you browse around garden centers, you will be surprised by how much color and variegation there is in any group of foliage plants that are grown for their…

There is a small flowering plant to choose from for every season of the year. Aim to grow a few different varieties that flower at different times so that you can keep the display going For as long as possible. Starting in the fall, there are the delightful Cyclamen persicum cultivars that it come in a variety of soft colors.

There are a number of essential components to a cloth-covered instant shelter. These are the frame, anchoring mechanism, and covering. Each of these components, if they fail, can reduce the entire structure to a wrecked pile on top of the prized possessions you were trying to protect.

There are many ways you can transform your backyard into a personal paradise. Here a few ideas you can start brainstorming with.

Planning to put together a raised bed garden, or have you been thinking about it? It is truly a garden project that will pay you back many times over.

Are you interested in having a wildlife habitat in your back yard next spring? The time to think about doing that is now in the wintertime. One of the main needs of your backyard visitors is the need for water. We have talked in other articles about ponds in-ground and above ground and about water gardens. Now we need to add the plants.