Archive for the 'Gardening' Category

Water Saving Gardening

With the world experiencing drought it is important to establish water saving gardens, so we still get to have natures beauty of green plants and beautiful flowers and food.
With out water the world is a dul hot place, the following video gives great information on how to save water around the home.

Gray Water – What is it and How Can It Help Your Garden?

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 Garden- xeriscaping

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 […]

Raised garden bed - what is it and why would you have one

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 - the advantages

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 […]

No Dig Gardening

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 […]