Archive for January, 2010
With a little research and planning, you can create a lovely garden in a small space. Little yards can benefit from a well thought out garden, here are some tips how you can learn to make a small yard into a lovely garden.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Building a tepee for your pole beans to grow up is a fun and space saving method of growing these delicious vegetables. Follow the steps below to create your own pole bean tepee!
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)The year’s shortest day December comes this month, and by recognizing and utilizing this fact we can have color and bloom in the greenhouse for Christmas. The early-flowering hardy bulbs which sometimes brave the snow outdoors make good subjects for early forcing. Iris resiculata, early daffodils, tulip species, snowdrops and crocuses are all good.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Rich organic compost is the key to a successful garden. Investing in a compost tumbler could be a wise investment if you have more money than time.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Of all the aquatic plants that grow in our ponds, it is the waterlily that epitomizes the subject to many people. To my mind there are few plants -aquatic or land-based - to compare with the pure exotic pleasure that a succession of waterlily flowers can bring. Fortunately for waterliliophiles like me, there are plenty of varieties to choose from; the sad thing is that the majority of them grow too big for the small ponds that most of us possess today.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)You will need to seriously consider the following prior to purchasing an indoor herb garden kit. If you approach this correctly, there are definite advantages to growing herbs indoors.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Flowering bulbs are generally easy and very rewarding to grow. A little effort will be rewarded by a beautiful floral display year after year.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)It is always fascinating being able to find information about herbs and growing them that is not generally known. That culinary herb garden delight, rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis) is so well known for being a flavoring used in cooking many foods, yet very few people are aware that rosemary extract has a very long history of medicinal uses.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)What do you want to eat? If you are starting a garden to get more exercise or for the nutritional value that fresh vegetables will add to you diet you still need to consider flavor.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)There is nothing complex in taking care of a compost bin. You maintain the good temperature, you feed the red wiggler worms with organic scraps and you give a portion of your time then that’s it! There are no machines or procedures to make the whole process complicated.
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