A Flower Pot That Grows as the Plant Does Twin sisters Bike and Begum Ayaskan are a design duo with a focus on products and installations. In a recent project entitled, GROWTH, the duo created a flower pot with origami-based geometry that grows in size as the plant does. The duo explain: “The life cycle of a plant is a transformation, from an early seed to its full grown size; the blooming of a flower, the unfolding of a leaf, the branching of the roots. This process is what GROWTH aims to capture within a plant pot.” For more interesting designs from Studio Ayaskan, check them out at the links below. [via Bored Panda] DIY Pallet Garden; How to make Raised Wood Pallet Garden Bed 2.7K Flares2.7K Flares × Have you planted your garden yet? I have the best DIY garden project for you! A raised wood pallet garden bed! We’ve been renting our home for a few years now and I have struggled with my garden. Pallet Garden supplies You will need Wooden pallets in good conditionScissorsWeed/garden fabricTop soilStaple gun and staplesplants for planting For me the hardest part was simply finding the silly pallets! With your pallets at home and cleaned we can begin. Begin stapling the garden fabric to the backside of the wood pallet. We then begin folding the fabric up to the top of the pallet and stapling it to the top. Once you have all your pallet garden beds created, move them into place. The smaller pallets took about 2 bags of 1 cubic-feet top soil. With the wood pallet garden beds filled, you can then start planting. Then I also planted peas, radishes, green onions, jalepenos and habenaro peppers and Red Bell peppers. Do you like the look of a Pallet garden? Questions?
How 1 MILLION Pounds Of Organic Food Can Be Produced On 3 Acres By Andy Whiteley Co-Founder of Wake Up World The quality and accessibility of our food supply is a mounting issue today. With GMOs, chemical pesticides and low-nutrition processed foods now commonplace in the mainstream supply, taking control of your own food supply is one of the smartest things you can do – for your health and for your hip pocket. So, with limited space, how can we create an independent food supply? I recently came across this amazing video of a man, urban farmer Will Allen, who has figured out a self-sustaining system that can grow 1 million pounds of food every year, on just 3 acres of land, using the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a re-circulating system. If you’re interested in starting your own Aquaponics system in your home, be sure to check out our exclusive special offer to Wake Up World readers at the bottom of this page. Grow 1 Million Pounds of Food on 3 Acres * Maintaining 3 acres of land in green houses * Producing 10,000 fish Growing Power
Thrifty Alternatives to Expensive Gardening Products | Natural Gardening The following Content was Provided by www.Budget101.com "Digging yourself out of debt, when all you have is a spoon" The dizzying array of gardening products required to maintain a garden can be overwhelming. After adding up the cost of purchasing fertilizers, pH soil adjusters, and pest control products you might find it cheaper to convert to fake flowers and just get your produce at the grocery store. Worse yet, a large number of the gardening products sold in stores are harmful for the environment and make our produce toxic to consume. Some plants such as Azaleas, Rhododendrons, foxgloves, bleeding hearts, and blueberry bushes grow best in acidic soil. Products that lower Soil pH Coffee grounds,Left over coffeeExpired orange, pineapple, or grapefruit juiceVinegarPine needles My favorite flower, Peonies, along with lilacs, sage, poppies, and sunflowers, grow best in alkaline soils. Products that Raise pH Wood AshSpread ash around alkaline loving plants, bushes, and trees. See Also:
Humic Acid's Role in Improving Soil Quality and Plant Growth The term "humus" dates back to the time of the Romans, when it was frequently used to designate the soil as a whole. It was later applied to the organic matter of soils and composts, or to different fractions of this organic matter; as well as, to complexes formed from a variety of natural organic substances. Humus compounds are complex natural organic compounds that are formed in soils from plant residues, by a process of "humification". Humus materials are complex aggregate of brown to dark colored amorphous substances, which have originated during the decomposition of plant and animal residues by microorganisms, under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, in soils, composts, peat bogs, and water basins. "Humic acid " is the commercial term often used to refer to the combined humic and fulvic acid content found in these naturally occurring deposits. Why Use Humic Acid? How Does Humic Acid Improve Soil? How Does Humic Acid Improve Plant Growth? Humic Acid's Role in Fertilization
Blueberry Lemon Pound Cake | BHG Delish Dish Written on June 24, 2014 at 7:00 am , by Jocelyn Delk Adams Hi there, it’s Jocelyn of Grandbaby Cakes, and I am so excited to share some wonderful recipes with you on Delish Dish! Pound cake is considered a delicacy in my family. It appears on every Sunday dinner table and is the cornerstone of my family’s vintage recipes. Pound cake was also the first thing I ever learned how to bake. What I love about cake recipes like this traditional sour cream pound cake is how easy it is to put your own spin on like I did with my blueberry lemon flavor combination. With these simple changes, I created a delightful cake ready for any celebration you have during this gorgeous season: First, I doubled the recipe to fill my beautiful bundt pan. Blueberries and lemon are one of my favorite baking combinations, and the pair ended up being absolutely perfect in this recipe. You definitely want to give this recipe a try! For the original recipe, click HERE! Happy Baking!
How To Grow Hundreds Of Potatoes In One Barrel | Homestead & Survival Want to grow potatoes this year? Lots of them in one barrel? Well, Timothy Hurst shares his simple 4-step method to do just that. 1. If you don’t have a 50-gallon trash barrel or a half whiskey barrel then consider the Victorian Potato Barrel, or our favorite, the Island Grow Pots. After you’ve selected your planter, then you’re ready to continue on with Tim’s final three steps.
Simple Garden Kits - how it works - Garden In Minutes The smart and simple Garden. -How to use and assemble the Garden Grid™ and our tool-free Raised Garden Beds- The Garden Grid™ Watering System: Please watch this short video to see why the Garden Grid™ Watering System is the most convenient and time saving way to layout and water your garden. *If you have secondary or well water, we suggest adding a filter to your spigot to prevent clogging. Cedar Raised Garden Beds: Our Cedar Raised Garden Beds have been designed to make assembly as quick and easy as possible. Garden In Minutes Raised Garden Bed - Assembly Step One Step Two Step Three Step Four Expanding a Garden In Minutes, Raised Garden Bed Step 2: Attach one expansion kit board to existing box and corner. Step 1: Remove one board from existing box. Step 4: Fill with soil. Step 3: Attach the other expansion kit board to box and corner.
Row Covers – Extend Your Growing Season with Dio-Betalon Row covers have been used by farmers for years to extend the season of summer crops and to get their Fall/Winter crops off to a good start. In the video, Protecting Plants From Frost, Tricia demonstrates how to build a low tunnel using PVC pipe covered with the row cover, Agribon. Another product that can be used for a low tunnel or as a floating row cover, is the very durable, Dio-Betalon (similar to Tuffbell). Durable and Long-lasting Dio-Betalon is a high-tech material made out of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a bit more expensive that the other row covers, but it lasts longer and is extremely durable. Frost Protection – Dio-Betalon is hygroscopic, which means it is able to attract and hold water. Heat Preserving – prevents radiant cooling during the night. High Permeability – very porous, so water can pass through. Light Penetration/Transparency – allows more light through than the heavy weight Agribons, about 90% +! Protect Your Veggies Over the Winter
Plant Garlic in the Fall I never did have any luck trying to raise garlic. Never, that is, until I accidentally stumbled onto the "Ultimate Garlic-Growing Secret": Treat 'em like daffodils. Plant garlic in the fall! Yeah, I know. The garlic would grow fine during the remaining days of spring, but then the inevitable hot, dry New Mexico summers that my vegetable patch has to contend with would hit the plants like a blast furnace. And so I proceeded through life, riled year after year by one stunted crop of garlic after another. It wasn't until the following spring, about the time the daffodils started sprouting, that I noticed a small, suspicious clump of green shoots out in the middle of the vegetable patch. My first impulse, of course, was to rip out the offending sprouts, since they quite obviously were going to do nothing but get in the way of my other gardening operations. As you may have suspected, I was dead certain that the tight bunch of garlic would never amount to anything.
How to Grow Your Own Food Without Land Urban dwellers are absolute consumers, i.e. they buy all their needs off-the-shelf for convenience and the lack of necessary resource to produce the goods on their own. Farm produce is one of those critical healthcare needs that we need to be doing on our own considering the onslaught of genetically modified food stuffs that are in the shelves of most grocery stores today. But city dwellers don’t have space for gardening? Worry no more. It turns out, plants are not as picky as its patrons when it comes to dwelling, in fact, they like high rise installations, too. And it is not insanity to say that vertical farming probably will become the wave of the future for food production. Imagine walking into a high rise building only to find out it was actually a vertical farm. The first commercial vertical farm was built in Singapore by Jack Ng who is an entrepreneur looking to supply food to Singapore’s densely populated city without having to buy a lot of highly priced land around the city.
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