Spring Garden Preparation
For those of you who are planning to develop your garden and make it very beautiful this summer – you need to start today.
One of the biggest things that you must do early in the spring is foundation work.
If you are planning new garden bed, pathways, a new arbor or any of those types of [...]
My Planting for Spring started TODAY!
Hi. This morning I went and got compost and all the tools and toys that I need to get my garden spruced up for Spring!
This included a bunch of vegetables, Chillies etc.
I will keep you posted on my progress
The Problem with Traditional Vegetable Gardening?
By Jonathan White, environmental scientist.
Traditional vegetable gardens require an enormous amount of hard work and attention – weeding, feeding and strict planting schedules. There is also the problem of seasonality, allowing beds to rest during the cooler months producing nothing at all. Then we are told [...]
Coneflower Or Echinacea – The Greatest Thing For Your Bed
You will find few factors far more exciting for gardeners at this time of year than dreaming of new plants. I’ll focus on a few with the much better plants within the next handful of weeks but let’s start out while using ideal example of new breeding.
Our outdated North American native friend Echinacea or purple [...]
5 Tips For Landscaping Your Garden
Landscaping may seem a daunting task, especially if you are new to gardening. If you are renovating an old garden or building on new land, there are 5 vital things to consider when creating a garden.
1. Prepare the soil
Although this is a tedious task, preparing the soil properly will cultivate healthy plants for years to [...]
Arbors In English Tudor Gardens
Each and every Tudor garden contained one or additional arbors. A person sort had a square-topped roof, while the other type was arched. Both were constructed of willows or osiers. Fragrant rosemary, jasmine, and roses of different sorts, primarily the sweetbrier or eglantine, have been also trained around the trellis, which usually rested over a [...]
An Introduction To No-Dig Gardening
he idea of no-dig gardening was produced by an Australian named Esther Deans. It was originally both developed both as a labor saving idea, and a technique to rejuvenate badly depleted soil in a vegetable garden.
The process involves starting with layers of newspaper, and by adding lucerne hay, straw and compost in succeeding layers, you’ll [...]
Encourage Predators In Your Garden
In nature, pests are generally controlled by the presence of insect predators and parasites which maintain the populations with the harmful insects in control.
Most on the insects in nature are either beneficial or at least harmless. There are lots of ways to encourage insect predators in one’s garden.
1. Produce a suitable habitat for insect predators. [...]
Free E book
I have written a general guide that gives some advice to new gardeners that are looking to get started in their gardening endeavors.
Please feel free to send me your details if you are interesred in getting your hands on a copy.
In a week or three I will have done a 52 week email program, and [...]
Tropical Gardens
Tropical gardens are an extremely popular type of garden as they create the atmosphere of an exotic holiday destination.
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I am a huge fan of the tropical garden.
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What you need to remember is that for properly done tropical gardens to thrive you need to be in the correct climate, and you are going to have a [...]
Natural gardens
Natural gardens or as I rather call them indigenous gardens are brilliant.
.It is so obviously the best version of a home garden that I am amazed that we all do not keep up the practice. Sadly we do not, and there are a lot of good reasons why we stop applying the basic gardening principles [...]
Gardening with or for children
Today’s topic is very important as our children are the future farmers of this world. We are responsible for the nurturing of that caring spirit that needs to be developed within every child.
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I live in a country that was sadly disrupted by apartheid and this caused entire generations of children to grow up without proper [...]
Organic gardening
Organic gardening has become extremely popular over the last few years.
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Naturally the main reason for this is the fact that global warming has started to be felt, and sadly human natures is such that they totally ignore warning signs and normally wait until they are knee deep in the dwang before they sit up and [...]
Landscaping overall
Generally when spoken about the term landscaping is generally referred to the overall design and planning of a garden area. This is normally done as a complete project and is very close to interior decorating where you call in a professional landscaper and consult with them on your ideas and then they control the overall [...]
Internet gardening
Here we are again, and I for one am very happy to be here. Today’s topic for the newsletter is one that I have been doing a lot of digging into, in a manner of speaking. It does not really mean much if you say it slowly – Internet gardening? Now I interpret it as [...]
Garden Art – Outdoor Art
OUTDOOR ART
I am hoping that you are in good health today.
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Let’s get right into it today. The subject that I have chosen to tell you about today crosses over from one of my biggest passions – gardening – into another part of my life that is more of a calling than a passion – art.
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Gardening [...]
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