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Square Foot Gardening For Beginners

April 28th, 2012

I decided this year to start a square foot garden. Being a beginner at growing my own vegetables, having limited space and horrible soil in my back yard square foot gardening seemed like the best option. Also, I dont have tons of room in my back yard to spare to make a traditional row garden for growing vegetables. I spent several hours online reading various blogs and sites about how to go about building my square foot garden and I decided based on my soil conditions and limited space that building a raised bed gardenwas my best option. I decided to actually build 4 seperate square foot raised bed gardens. Two of them I build were 4ft.x4ft and one was 4ft x 8ft. to give me a total of 64 square foot of gardening space. Multiple sites I visited recommended that for each person in the family you should have approximately 16 square foot to supply ample fruits and vegtables throughout the growing season.

Now there are many different ways you can go about laying out your square foot garden and I choose to use a free garden design tool offered on the » Read more: Square Foot Gardening For Beginners

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Garden Planters Make The Difference

November 28th, 2010

While a garden is mainly about the plants, flowers, and trees that are inside it, many other components add to its beauty and feel. Garden chairs, gates, fountains, and other natural items like boulders and rocks, are just a few examples. One key element in this list, however, the garden planter, is an item that can potentially enhance all of the other components, and further add to the garden’s overall aesthetic style.

Simply put, a garden planter is a container which can hold plants, herbs, and small trees, in places where these plants can’t easily be grown or placed. They are made of many different materials, and can come in a variety of styles that can accentuate both the garden’s looks, and the plants’ appearance.

The advantages of using planters, rather than just placing the plants on firm soil, are many. First, it allows plants to be grown indoors, making them ideal for those who do not have plots of » Read more: Garden Planters Make The Difference

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Keep Gardening Therapeutic – Garden Netting Techniques

July 27th, 2010

Although the simple act of gardening is therapeutic for many people, few things beat the satisfaction that comes from harvesting your own fruits and vegetables from your garden. Not only is it rewarding to successfully harvest your crop, but sharing your crop with others around you is great as well.

When uninvited guests begin to take over your garden and share in your crop without your permission, it can become quite stressful and disheartening. You work all season long to keep your garden healthy and growing, and just as you are about to enjoy the spoils, your garden becomes inundated with insects, birds, and other pests.

You want to be able to share your garden with whom you choose, and not allow these critters to take over your gardening efforts. Fortunately there are a number of effective, inexpensive, and simple ways to help protect your crop from unwanted intruders.

One of the best ways to take care of an insect problem without the use of harmful chemicals or pesticides is by using garden insect netting. The insect netting is simply draped over the plants that you anticipate problems with. As with any protectionary measure, it is always easier to implement the assistance prior to any real problem. There is no point covering your plants with the insects already within the boundaries of your protection. » Read more: Keep Gardening Therapeutic – Garden Netting Techniques

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Garden Resin Accessories: From Pots to Gnomes

July 12th, 2010

Resin is a sort of plastic poly-organic material that is used to make many things that we see today. Included in this is the garden resin furnishings that we see today. This includes many things, in fact anything that you can think of that could compliment your garden is probably made out of resin in some form or another. There’s resin garden benches, resin garden pots, and garden resin statues that are commonly used in gardens today. Even those famed, and sometimes scary looking, garden gnomes are often constructed from resin.

Resin can be synthetic, or man made, but is also a naturally occurring material. In nature resin is produced by various trees and plants. Any young and adventurous tree-climber will tell you that a side effect for climbing trees is often “sticky-hands” which is because of the resin seeping out of trees. In this respect resin is used for different things, but still used and valued on the market. It can be made into rosin, which is used on string instruments. It also can be used as a glaze for finished products. Using resin dates back to the B.C. era, as it was used as part of the mummification process. » Read more: Garden Resin Accessories: From Pots to Gnomes

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Scarecrow Sprinklers

June 23rd, 2010

If you own a garden and get pests in the form of Deer, rabbits, Dogs, Cats or any other unwanted guests then you will have been trying to find a solution to this problem. And there is one very effective way to stop them ever being a nuisance again and in a very humane way.

A scarecrow sprinkler system works amazingly well at ensuring that these once pests never return to eat your garden or dig it up.

We will find that by using something like the Havahart 5265 we can get rid of the problem in a few days. These scarecrow motion activated sprinkler systems work by spraying water the second that they detect any motion. They usually send out a wide stream of water as well as a more focused jet.

This gives the pests a shock and sends them on their way in a totally humane way. It may only take one soaking or a few at most before they decide that they will find somewhere else to cause trouble. It works extremely well to stop Cats digging, Deer munching and just about any animals you do want in the garden.