Here is a great video on how you can create your own herb container gardening. Simple and easy!
More on Herb Gardening...
Friday
Simple Container Gardening Guide
Container gardening is a wonderful way to grow flowers, herbs and even some vegetables like tomatoes in a small space. Containers come in all different shapes and sizes - they can be plastic, cement or ceramic and you have a variety of colors to choose from.
Here are some ideas I've used successfully in my container garden.
One of the best ways to utilize a container is to plant bulbs and spring flowers in the fall. Spring bulbs are the most effective in gardens that have winter temperatures that dip below freezing.
In the fall, you can take a variety of bulbs like daffodils and tulips and grape hyacinth and plant them deep in the container. Remember to check your bulb packet to see how deeply you should be planting them.
Then, to top off the container, you suggest you that plant pansies. Pansies are a kind of flower that can easily go from fall to spring without having to re-plant.
Even if you live in the harshest winters, you can still plant pansies in the fall and throw a load of mulch over them for heavy winters. When spring comes, your garden will overflow with pansies starting to bounce back and this will add beautiful color around your tall bulb stems.
If you stay in a place that is populated with moles, voles and squirrels and yet you love tulips, container planting is your answer. To create a gorgeous complement to your tulips, you can interplant them with daffodils and hyacinth.
Another terrific use for window and deck boxes for container gardening is to grow herbs and annuals in them. Just remember that window and deck boxes will dry out much faster because they are more shallow than other containers. Specially in summer, you have keep a good eye on the dryness and use a good water retention potting mix. Watering in the early morning is best way for water retention.
Next, you can try container vegetable gardening. Common vegetables like tomatoes, lettuce, peas and bush beans are grown in containers and raised beds. Sometimes, some vegetables can be grown in between flowers and bulbs which gives your container texture and make things look more interesting and useful.
If you'd like to grow tomatoes in a container and your space is limited, make sure you choose a container large enough to hold a couple of plants. Use tomato stakes and garden Velcro to keep everything upright and growing well. You can find tomato containers that are self-watering in home centers, catalogs and on the Net. They're great for a deck or patio.
Here is a tip on growing tomatoes in a container:
Get a bigger one that can last you many seasons so that you can rotate your tomatoes year after year.
Click here for more tips about Growing Tomatoes...
Here are some ideas I've used successfully in my container garden.
One of the best ways to utilize a container is to plant bulbs and spring flowers in the fall. Spring bulbs are the most effective in gardens that have winter temperatures that dip below freezing.
In the fall, you can take a variety of bulbs like daffodils and tulips and grape hyacinth and plant them deep in the container. Remember to check your bulb packet to see how deeply you should be planting them.
Then, to top off the container, you suggest you that plant pansies. Pansies are a kind of flower that can easily go from fall to spring without having to re-plant.
Even if you live in the harshest winters, you can still plant pansies in the fall and throw a load of mulch over them for heavy winters. When spring comes, your garden will overflow with pansies starting to bounce back and this will add beautiful color around your tall bulb stems.
If you stay in a place that is populated with moles, voles and squirrels and yet you love tulips, container planting is your answer. To create a gorgeous complement to your tulips, you can interplant them with daffodils and hyacinth.
Another terrific use for window and deck boxes for container gardening is to grow herbs and annuals in them. Just remember that window and deck boxes will dry out much faster because they are more shallow than other containers. Specially in summer, you have keep a good eye on the dryness and use a good water retention potting mix. Watering in the early morning is best way for water retention.
Next, you can try container vegetable gardening. Common vegetables like tomatoes, lettuce, peas and bush beans are grown in containers and raised beds. Sometimes, some vegetables can be grown in between flowers and bulbs which gives your container texture and make things look more interesting and useful.
If you'd like to grow tomatoes in a container and your space is limited, make sure you choose a container large enough to hold a couple of plants. Use tomato stakes and garden Velcro to keep everything upright and growing well. You can find tomato containers that are self-watering in home centers, catalogs and on the Net. They're great for a deck or patio.
Here is a tip on growing tomatoes in a container:
Get a bigger one that can last you many seasons so that you can rotate your tomatoes year after year.
Click here for more tips about Growing Tomatoes...
Thursday
How to choose a Garden that is Perfect for You
First thing you must do before starting a garden is to consider what type of garden you will want to have. There are many different choices and often it can be hard to pick the one that you want, but hopefully you can narrow it down. But by doing so,it make gardening experience much easier for yourself. Furthermore, if your plants are similar kind, it makes taking care of them easier.
Here are some garden ideas which you can choose from
For something to look nice in your yard, how about a flower garden? These are usually filled with perennial flower. Perennial flowers are flowers which stay healthy year-round. They're basically weeds because of their hardiness, only nice looking. Different areas and climates have different flowers which are considered perennials. By doing a quick internet search for your area, you can probably find a list of flowers that will add life and color to your flower garden. These usually only require work in the planting stage - after that, the flower take care of themselves. The only downside to this is that you don't have any product to show for it.
Another choice for your garden is to have a vegetable garden. These usually require a little more work and research than a flower garden, but can be much more rewarding. No matter what time of the year it is, you can usually find one vegetable that is still prospering. That way you can have your garden be giving you produce almost every day of the year! When starting a vegetable garden, you should build it with the thought in mind that you will be adding more types of veggies in later. This will help your expandability. Once all your current crops are out of season, you won't be stuck with almost nowhere to put the new crops. A vegetable garden is ideal for someone who wants some produce, but doesn't want to devote every waking hour to perfecting their garden.
One of the more difficult types of gardens to manage is a fruit garden.
It's definitely the most high-maintenance. When growing fruits, many more
pests will be attracted due to the sweetness. You not only have to deal
with having just the right dirt and fertilizer, you have to deal with
choosing a pesticide that won't kill whoever eats the fruits. Your fruit
garden will probably not produce year-round. The soil needs to be just
right for the plants to grow, and putting in another crop during its
off-season could be disastrous to its growth process. If you're willing to
put lots of work into maintaining a garden, then a fruit garden could be a
good choice for you.
Basically, the garden type comes down to what kind of product you want, and how much work you want to put into it. If you're looking for no product with no work, go with a flower garden. If you want lots of delicious product, but you are willing
to spend hours in your garden each day, then go for a fruit garden. Just
make sure you don't get into something you can't handle!
However, if you are interested in organic gardening, you can read more about this here.
Here are some garden ideas which you can choose from
For something to look nice in your yard, how about a flower garden? These are usually filled with perennial flower. Perennial flowers are flowers which stay healthy year-round. They're basically weeds because of their hardiness, only nice looking. Different areas and climates have different flowers which are considered perennials. By doing a quick internet search for your area, you can probably find a list of flowers that will add life and color to your flower garden. These usually only require work in the planting stage - after that, the flower take care of themselves. The only downside to this is that you don't have any product to show for it.
Another choice for your garden is to have a vegetable garden. These usually require a little more work and research than a flower garden, but can be much more rewarding. No matter what time of the year it is, you can usually find one vegetable that is still prospering. That way you can have your garden be giving you produce almost every day of the year! When starting a vegetable garden, you should build it with the thought in mind that you will be adding more types of veggies in later. This will help your expandability. Once all your current crops are out of season, you won't be stuck with almost nowhere to put the new crops. A vegetable garden is ideal for someone who wants some produce, but doesn't want to devote every waking hour to perfecting their garden.
One of the more difficult types of gardens to manage is a fruit garden.
It's definitely the most high-maintenance. When growing fruits, many more
pests will be attracted due to the sweetness. You not only have to deal
with having just the right dirt and fertilizer, you have to deal with
choosing a pesticide that won't kill whoever eats the fruits. Your fruit
garden will probably not produce year-round. The soil needs to be just
right for the plants to grow, and putting in another crop during its
off-season could be disastrous to its growth process. If you're willing to
put lots of work into maintaining a garden, then a fruit garden could be a
good choice for you.
Basically, the garden type comes down to what kind of product you want, and how much work you want to put into it. If you're looking for no product with no work, go with a flower garden. If you want lots of delicious product, but you are willing
to spend hours in your garden each day, then go for a fruit garden. Just
make sure you don't get into something you can't handle!
However, if you are interested in organic gardening, you can read more about this here.
=====> The ABCs of Organic Gardening
Tuesday
Designing A Butterfly Garden
What is butterfly gardening?
Well, butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will attract these colorful and dainty creatures called butterflies to your garden. This provides lots of delights and joys to your family and visitors but do make sure that you have to create a safe habitat for them.
If you own cats, you may want to rethink your plans because it would be a shame to attract these lovely insects to their death.
How the design of your butterfly garden will be depended on your own personal preference.
Points to consider :-
1) how big do you want your garden be
2) what types of flowers and plants to grow to attract the butterflies that you wish
3) research on different kinds of landscaping designs to get ideas.
It is paramount important to find out which kinds of plants and flowers will attract the species of butterflies that live in your area. You can easily access this information at your local library or you can ask the local nursery for advices.
A birdbath will create an attractive environment and at the same time, it helps to keep the butterflies off the ground, away from cats or mischievous puppies. A shallow dish on a post or hung in a tree will do just as well.
Take special care choosing the colors of your plants and flower for your butterfly garden. You don't want your effort of creating a beautiful garden becomes a hodgepodge of discoordinated colors flowers. Butterflies are attracted to those flowers that have nectar rather than pollen, like honeysuckle, milkweed, summer lilac, Valerian, daisies, Purple Coneflower, Yellow Sage, day lilies and lavender.
A number of people find it useful to draw and color a layout of their butterfly gardening plan to help them to have better and clearer picture how the finished product looked like. Bear in mind that warm colors like red and orange are flashy and showy. Somehow these radiant colors have a greater impact against a strong green background. Cool colors such as blue and purple are soothing and toned down and would work better with a white contrast to create the look of freshness and brightness.
Monday
3 Simple Tips in Landscaping Your Garden
Landscaping is usually a fairly big task, consuming much time and energy. But before you hire that professional, here are some tips that could save both time and money.
1. Spend some time thinking about exactly how you want the final design to be. You need to take account of the style and function of your landscape. Do you want to include an area for entertaining? A barbeque? Is there to be an area for children to play, a fishpond or a swimming pool? An idea of the plants you want to be there will also help. Focus on the area where you spend most of your time. That's a good place to start.
2. Think twice before hiring a pro. An independent designer might cost you hundreds of dollars when you may be able to access free plans on the internet or at a nursery. But if you have an awkward block such as very steep ground, a pro might give you the expertise to save costly mistakes.
3. The style of your home must be taken into account. If you have a rural cottage, formal gardens surrounding it will look out of place. Think also about your lifestyle. Do you want to spend hours caring for many beds of annuals or pruning beds of roses? If so, go ahead and plant them, but if you'd rather spend your free time at the beach, then go for an easy-care garden and landscape.
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