How to Make a Decorative Pond From Old Tires
Tyre Ponds are a great little garden feature that can enhance the overall aesthetics and integrated pest management of a site. By inviting biodiversity into the site we can make the system more resilient and attractive which tyre ponds do so elegantly. Here are the steps you need to do in order to create your own decorative pond. It is a fun way, that helps you re-use an old tire. Ready for more amazing ideas?
Garden Hacks: Three Ingenious Pallet Planters
There's still time to get a fall garden planted if you get started soon, and these pallet projects can help you get growing on the cheap! Pallet Garden Bed Over at eHow, Dan Eash shows you how to construct a raised bed garden using wood pallets. This project is pretty large - it takes 12 pallets to complete! A word of caution about building garden beds with wood pallets - you want to make sure the pallet is made with untreated wood. Pallet Planter Don't have a back yard or space for a full-sized bed? You can check out more details on this pallet planter project on Crabb's website. Vertical Pallet Planter A vertical garden is excellent for maximizing space when you've got a limited area for planting. If you want to fancy this up, you can paint the pallet to coordinate with your garden or patio's decor. You can lean your finished pallet planter against your patio railing, your back yard's fence, or even try mounting it on the wall inside your home!
Planning Your First Vegetable Garden
Intensive Cropping This type of planting a garden with vegetables means using in wide bands, generally 1-4 feet across and as long as you like. Intensive cropping reduces the amount of area needed for paths, but the closer spacing of the plants usually means you have to weed by hand. Because of the handwork required, when thinking how to plan a vegetable garden with rows remember: It is important not to make the bands wider than you can comfortably reach. Intensive cropping also allows you to design your vegetable garden, making it a good choice, for example, if you want to grow vegetables in your front yard. It's a great solution for mixing vegetables with ornamentals, as well. A specialized version of intensive cropping is the "square-foot method." It also makes sense to leave some areas of the garden unplanted at first. Don't miss these other vegetable-garden design tips! Download our free vegetable garden plans!
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Vegetable garden planning: beginning gardening
Here’s our quick guide for the beginner vegetable gardener. Whether you’re a beginner or an old hand, planting in a pot or a plot, this advice will help you to plan and grow your tastiest vegetables ever. Why garden? If you’ve never tasted garden-fresh vegetables (lots of people haven’t!), you will be amazed by the sweet, juicy flavors and vibrant textures. We’ll highlight the basics of vegetable garden planning: how to pick the right site, figure out how “big” to go, and how to select which vegetables to grow. Start Small! Remember this: It’s better to be proud of a small garden than to be frustrated by a big one! One of the common errors for beginners is planting too much too soon and way more than anybody could eat or want. Start Smart Plant in a sunny location. Photo credit: Nina Buday shutterstock Deciding How Big A good-size beginner vegetable garden is about 16x10 feet and features crops that are easy to grow. Make your garden 11 rows wide, with each row 10 feet long. When to Plant?
School Garden Activities
How to build raised garden beds construction tips
Credit: Alabama Cooperative Extension System Raised garden beds are fairly easy to construct and even easier to maintain. Here is advice on how to build raised garden beds for your backyard. Benefits of a Raised Garden Ideal for smaller spaces (versus a conventional row garden) Great for rocky, poor, or abused soil Produces a higher yield for the area, thanks to better drainage and deep rooting Allows for a longer growing season, since you can work the soil more quickly in the spring in frost-hardened regions Makes gardening easier; for example, intensive planting creates shade mulch to keep the weeds down Raised Beds Video Here is a fantastic video on How to Use Raised Beds in Your Garden. After you finish watching it, click here to try out the online Almanac Garden Planner which has a special raised bed feature. Construction Tips Materials Many people are concerned about the safely of their wood frame. Planning and Design Consider a location that's level and has the right amount of sunlight.
5 projects to celebrate Earth day
canada frost freeze freezing dates chart
Below is a chart showing frost dates in the spring and fall for various Canadian cities. (Also, see our frost dates for U.S. cities.) PLEASE NOTE: The reference source for Canadian frost dates is Environment Canada's National Climate Services. If your city is not listed, click here. Dates below reflects normal averages for a light freeze (29° to 32°F, or -2° to 0°C); local weather and topography may cause considerable variations. The link to more frost dates in Alberta is www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex10
Improvs and Warmups
Freeze and Justify | The Martha Game | What Are You Doing? | Everyone Who. . . | Pinocchio Murder Mystery | Hitchhiker | Look Up (Dude!) | The Shakes | Mr. Improvs and Warmups This is a small collection of improvisation games and warmup games that can be used to sharpen up your cast if you're a director, or to add energy and originality to your students' acting if you are an acting teacher. None of these games are my own inventions, although I've made some modifications to some of them. Freeze and Justify The Granddaddy of 'em all. The group sits or stands around the acting space. Two people enter the space and begin to improvise a scene, with dialogue and as much physical action as possible. At any moment, anyone else in the group may shout, "FREEZE!" The actors freeze instantly and exactly. The person who stopped the scene taps one of the actors on the shoulder. The new person must now initiate a new and DIFFERENT scene. At any moment another person may shout, "FREEZE!" Pointers Start again.
1, 2, 3, Go... | CODE
This unit plan was revised from the Ontario Ministry of Education Course Profiles written in 1999. Unit Overview/Description This beginning unit “1, 2, 3, go……” is intended as a “mixer” for grades 9 or 10 students that will already have some prior learning of drama Grades 1 to 8. Learning Goals Students will: Build positive class relationships (collaborative activities, marshmallow game)Develop interpretations of inclusion and exclusion by presenting a particular point of viewUse some elements of drama (tableau, stepping out) effectivelyUse tools such as sound in crossover tableau, to enhance the impact of the drama workReflect on and evaluate their own and others’ work in discussion or through thoughtful journal entriesIdentify knowledge and skills they have acquired in drama, through discussion or by reflecting in his/her journalIdentify and follow safe practices such as collaboration, respect for space and personal safety in the classroom Identify tableau and crossover tableaux Materials
