If you are worried about who is eating away your tomatoes then check out Whitney Cranshaw’s latest book Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs. This book tells you all about the secreat mites and bugs that you can find in your garden and an user-friendly guide to tackle with the recurrent problem of bugs.
There are flowers that can make you go nuts over your neighbor’s garden, but grasses rarely do that. But an article lists out a couple of grasses that give a wonderful border to your garden yard in the sizzling summer.
One grass spoken about here is a Toffee Twist, a light coppery brown grass that can grow in full or part sun upto 18 inches tall and spread 24 inches. The combination in a spring garden as suggested here is a yellow African daisy, or osteospermum, and Blue Bird nemesia.
There are other plants that are mentioned and there can be many other grasses too. The idea behind this is to give a different touch to your yard by mix-matching beautiful grass with sprinhg flowers for throwing an appeal.
Weeding becomes important in the summer and rainy season and therefore it is more important to have a good hoe to weed out the unwanted growth in your garden from the roots.
A new hoe known as Rogue Hoe Dog has the blade that resembles a dog mouth and claims to have sharp blades like the canine of the dog.
The manufacturer attaches history to it by making use of old plow disc blades. This Weeding Hoe tagged Rogue Hoe D00 is sharpened in three of its edges so that it can save your maximum time while clearing a patch of garden.
You can purchase this from the onlie retail store of Garden Hardware. I have not used it but seeing the wonders it did in Carol’s garden I better make a haste for this product in this season.
Via: May Dreams Gardens
There are endless gardening tips to keep your garden cool in summer days. Some tips are as follows:
1. Constant Mulching of soil
2. Constant Weeding
3. Constant Wetting of soil.
4. Constant Spray of Fertilizers
5. Proper Drainage system in the garden
Have you ever thought that the little space that you have at your backyard can yield a better harvest than a row garden?
Do not shy away from raising a square-foot vegetable garden.
An article points out that a raised bed on a compost pit requires less mulching and weeding than a pretty big garden. Otherwise knows as Sector gardening it requires the following things for you to do:
1. Your square-foot area should get ample of sun and water.
2. Creating a bed by filing the borders with stone followed by feeding it with compost.
3. Plant different veggies in each square.
An article tips the gardeners to make their gardens adaptable to summer heat. The tips are as follows:
1. Plant heat resisting annuals and perennials for adding color and coolness to the dry landscape.
2. Weed out the dead plants and apply fertilizers while you water the garden.
3. Separate old flowers from the midst of perennials.
4. Irrigate your lawn regularly.
5. Cut the grass half inch above the normal level to enable the roots penetrate deeper to grab some moisture.
6. Make a regular spray of pesticides. Look out for specific pests during the summer and inhibit their growth in summer.
Watering is the most obvious requirement for your plants during the summer season, but you have to determine the quantity of water required by the plant depending upon the dryness of the soil.
Watering a dry garden in every fifteen minutes until the water runs from the bottom of the pot. You should drench the soil until the air pockets are displaced by water and salt build-up is lessened. This can be known by pushing in the shovel into the pot and check the penetration of water into the soil.
Moreover, if you are lazy enough in watering the plants just before dusk then you are running your plants into the risk of a fungus build-up. Therefore, the article suggests you to water your plants early in the day than late at night.
Plants that are sensitive to summer heat need more water and hence it is important to drench their soils in water properly.
There are certain plants in your garden that make you sneeze or develop certain kinds of pollen allergies. If you are an asthmatic or carry dust allergy then it is certainly going to be harmful. But a post on sneeze-free plants speaks about those shrubs, flowers, grass and trees that insect-pollinated and hence heavy with pollens.
There you have the heavy bases that hold pollen intead of blowing them in air.The best one in the list is the beautiful rose, followed by sunflower, tulips, daffodils and daisies.
What more do you want? You already have a garden blooming with fresh air and not pollens.
Via: Green Guide
Gardening can be real easy with updated gardening tools and to add a bit of zest to it can be a cause of your neighbor’s envy. These tools are launched by Hangzhou OK-Tools Co. Ltd in China and they consist of two trowels, cultivator, pruning shears and gardening wire.
These gardening tools are durable enough as the handles of the shears have a strong plastic handles and other tools have wooden handles.
They are available in the online retail store of the supplier Global Sources and the package cost is $2 as per Shanghai prices.
AeroGrow presents an unique pot for growing fresh herbs indoor and having it handy in the kitchen just in the time of need. This pot is called as AeroGarden and is based on the method of Aeroponics, which involves the suspension of roots in the air placed inside an 100 percent humid, highly-oxygenated chamber.
AeroGarden is designed in away that even your 4 year baby can handle the pot. You just have to drop in the seed pods and the in-built microprocessor gives in the whole spectrum of sunlight, which goes on and off automatically as per requirement. There is another built in system that alerts you whenever your plants need nutrients and light.
The AeroGarden gives you the joys of complete customized gardening for your herbs. When I say customized this ‘mini-greenhouse’ allows you to set your timings for the growth of herbs and as the roots are given a proper dose of nutrients and water, they grow very fast.
This AeroGarden is available at the online retail store of Golda’s Kitchen for $185 only.
