Gardening Blog Train and graft a tree for four to eight years and you get strong, one piece (tree) furniture. Patience a requirement. Read more... Easy, attractive and inexpensive. 7 Tasty Vegetables To Plant In August Ready To Eat In Winter : GBD Blog August 15, 2014 by Shaun Wheatcroft 2.2K Flares2.2K Flares × Growing vegetables is something many people don’t consider because they are unaware of exactly when to plant certain vegetables during the year to get the best results. The variety of new meal ideas and healthy supermarket alternatives offered to your family from growing vegetables in the garden is fantastic. TerraScreen Green Wall Vertical Garden TerraScreen is an innovative approach to creating vertical gardens or green walls. Its design is simple and straightforward. This vertical garden system is the brainchild of Shane Pliska a progressive young interior plantscaper from Detroit. The Pliska family owns Planterra, one of the leading interior plantscaping companies in the U.S. The watertight containers can hold plants that are sub-irrigated by the simple method of capillary action. Simply place a pad of polyester batting material under each grow pot.
Keyhole Gardens Keyhole Gardens First made popular in Africa, keyhole gardens are catching on in Texas and other hot, dry places. Keyhole gardens hold moisture and nutrients due to an active compost pile placed in the center of a round bed. Although most helpful in hot and dry locations a keyhole garden will improve growing conditions in just about any climate. From a bird's eye view the garden is shaped as a keyhole.
This Revolutionary Device Turns Plastic Into Edible Mushrooms! A team of researchers in Europe have created a prototype device called The Fungi Mutarium which uses fungi to safely break down plastic and replace it with edible mushrooms. The research team is comprised of two Vienna-based industrial designers and a number of researchers at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The device that they created harnesses the natural cleaning and purifying power of fungi, and creates a condition where the fungi can easily break down and absorb the trash, replacing it with more fungi. The device has been described by some as a dome shaped incubator, which contains several pods that hold liquefied fungi sprouts. recycled upside down planters well it’s the middle of april, and i must have springtime on the brain, because all i want to do is look at plants all day. i have had my eye on the sky planters by boskke since christmas time; something about upside down plants really strikes me as beautiful and intriguing. but i am low on funds, so i decided to try making my own with leftover containers from the various food items that make their way through my kitchen. surprisingly, there are a lot of container options for these nifty planters! the best are tins cans with plastic lids (items that usually come in these include coffee, instant cocoa mix, fiber drink mix, basically anything powdered or loose…yum!) CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump!
How To Grow An Avocado Tree for Endless Organic Avocados Here’s a step-by-step guide to growing your own avocado tree. Avocados are highly nutritious and flavored, whether we’re talking about salad, guacamole, or straight up! They are a key staple for a nutritious and delicious diet. Try growing an avocado tree at home if you don’t like making regular trips to the grocery store for your daily supply of fresh avocados, can’t find organic ones, or are fed up with spending so much for quality produce.
Gardening Tips & Ideas Spider mites are among one of the most frustrating plant pests. Most people try to kill them with insecticides, which do nothing to them. Spider mites are mites and must be treated with special chemicals to treat mites. Keyhole Gardens: A Drought Tolerant Composting Garden Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that if you choose to make a purchase SHTFPreparedness may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. The Keyhole Garden concept is brilliantly simple. A circular raised bed has a center compost basket that distributes nutrients to the surrounding lasagna-style garden bed. A small pie-slice section of the bed is used for easy access to the center compost basket forming the keyhole design, this is a great gardening technique and more of us should be doing this as it works that good!
How To Build A Keyhole Garden & 7 Reasons Why You Should Image Credit: VLCinéaste @ Flickr Pin It Keyhole gardens are the ultimate raised bed with a built-in composting system and easy irrigation. How to Create a Keyhole Garden - Engledow Group Image Source: Aletha St. Romain Southern Africa is known for its scorching temperatures and dry spells that can last for what seems months. keyhole garden in summer drought (projects forum at permies) Inspired by the keyhole garden thread, and my drive to make our farm irrigationfree, I started making a new garden bed. Here's what it looked like at the start of today. I used wattle (weaving) as the walls because we can see dismantling it in 4 or 5 years, and we wanted something easy to take apart. Also, I like the way wattle looks. For the posts, I used old garden stakes.
How To Make A Keyhole Garden: The Ultimate Raised Bed A keyhole bed can be a great way to maximise space and productivity in an organic garden. A keyhole garden is a type of garden bed commonly utilised in permaculture design. It can be especially useful in areas where water and nutrients are in short supply, but it is an idea that can be applied in almost any climate zone. What is a Keyhole Garden?