If you have ever tried to keep a garden alive during a drought… or experienced the shock of receiving a high water bill during a hot dry summer, then you need to know about gray water.
Gray water is not actually gray in color. Instead, this is a term which refers to water that as already […]
Drought resistant gardening is called xeriscaping, joining the Greek word xeros, which means dry, with “-scape,” as in landscape to describe garden design planned to resist and withstand drought.
Drought resistant plants can reduce the water requirements in any garden, especially important now when a lot of the world is experiencing drought. In fact, many […]
It’s important that beginning gardeners with less established gardening skills have the gardening tools for the multitude of gardening tasks they need to perform.
Here’s a list of gardening tools most garden centers and nursery experts recommend when you are starting to garden:
1. Two shovels: One should have a pointed tip and the other a […]
Gardening is considered work, but it’s also fun, and can also be a way for the entire family to enjoy an activity together and get the kids involved in gardening. Gardening is also a great way to teach kids about responsibly, while caring for other living things and increase their appreciation for our fragile environment.
Here […]
For every pest, theirs is at least one natural pest control solution, that doesn’t require covering your garden with poisonous pesticides, weedicides or fungicides. Natural pest control costs less than pesticides and is much safer for your garden, pets, children, wildlife and the environment.
Here are some natural pest control measures you can use to avoid […]
If you’re a gardening enthusiast, then you might have heard of the term, ‘raised garden bed’.
So, to begin with, a raised bed garden is exactly what is sounds like. A garden upon a ‘raised bed’. People tend to raise sections of there gardens, rather than the whole garden. To raise the garden beds people tend […]
Raised garden beds are used to get get beds of the ground to a more convenient height for either aesthetic or practical reasons.
Some of the advantages of building or have raised garden beds are:
1. To allow you to enjoy gardening when you have a disability. Raised garden beds allow you to work at a […]
The concept of do-dig gardening was developed by an Australian woman named Esther Deans. It was originally developed both as a labor saving idea, and a way to rejuvenate badly structured soil in a vegetable garden.
No dig gardening involves starting with layers of newspaper on the ground, and by adding lucerne hay, straw and compost […]
Teak Outdoor Garden Furniture is made from the teak tree found in the tropical region of Java. Most companies that build teak outdoor garden furniture purchase their teakwood from companies that practice environmental harvesting. The harvested trees are replaced by newly planted trees, so that the chance of teak trees becoming endangered will not be […]
If you are interested in starting a herb garden, these are the herbs that I recommend you start your herb garden with.
• Sage (Salvia officinalis) Sage is a woody, hardy perennial plant with
oblong, wooly, gray-green leaves that are lighter underneath and darker
on top. Sage grows 2 to 3 feet or more in height and has […]
