Starting from Rough and Weedy Ground

Traditionally garden sheds are made out of wood. However, there are other options available including metal and plastic sheds. This article explores the pros and cons of plastic sheds in comparison to other materials.

While birds are nice to have in your garden, they can present problems. Bullfinches, for example, can decimate your apple buds in no time at all, and blackbirds love all forms of soft fruit, like currants, raspberries and blueberries.

Container gardening is a useful skill to learn if you have limited space to grow plants in. You can plant and grow beautiful plants in just about any container, varying them in size, shape, style or color. Container gardening is actually a lot of fun. Read the following article to find out what you need to know when you decide that container gardening is right for you.

You don’t have to have a giant backyard to enjoy some of the calm and relaxing moments that gardening can offer you. If you live in an apartment or have a small yard, container gardening can be the answer to your problems. This form of gardening offers the versatility of moving your plants around and still getting the chance to harvest vegetables.

Unless you are a tree cutter or tree surgeon, chances are that you don’t climb trees all that regularly any more. There was a time for most of us when climbing trees was considered one of the best ways to pass time and get some excitement, but these days the majority of us are too old and achy to want to spend our time that way, and would probably attract too many weird looks if we were to spend all day climbing through the trees. Climbing trees though is actually a great way to…

When people think of gardening they tend to focus mostly on planting the most attractive plants and flowers they can, or on growing their own vegetables. No one really tends to think of trees as being part of a good garden design and instead seem to think of them as a somewhat boring necessity. In reality though, trees are highly important additions to your garden and can do a lot to make it more functional and more attractive.

Planting and caring for trees is a valuable pursuit, since they benefit the environment in a number of ways. Read on to find out exactly how.

Sometimes I just laugh at humans, I wonder why everyone is so worried about their carbon foot-print. You see, humans themselves are made up of 17% carbon, and carbon is one of the most plentiful elements on Earth, it’s everywhere and we couldn’t get rid of it if we wanted too and if we got rid of all of it, humans wouldn’t exist nor would this planet. Okay so, what’s my point here you ask? Well, plants and yes the rain forest needs CO2, and CO2 being a trace gas in the atmosphere is hard to come by, they always want more.

There are plenty of benefits to planting bare-root trees, but you’ll have to bear a few things in mind to get the most from your purchase. Read on to find out just what they are.

Gardening is already a very frugal, and even profitable past time. Read on to find out how you can take advantage of this through better composting.

A guide to making and using compost. Step Number One – placing your compost bin. Place you compost bin on a level and well drained spot.

Most composting sites will advise you not to add meat, fish,dairy, cooked food waste to your compost bin. There are good reasons for this advice – but these ‘do not add’ items can be as much as 65% all all your of food waste. If you want to make more compost and divert more waste from landfill read on.