Ideas : Green Keyboard

Ideas : Green Keyboard

Small-Space Garden Pot Basics

As long as it gets adequate sun, a small patio can provide enough room to grow a range of crops without demanding much time or labor. Devote the most planting space to the veggies your family loves best. Keep in mind that large plants such as beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes require large pots (two feet in diameter or more). Smaller pots are perfect for peppers, greens, kale, and herbs, and they look great tucked between larger containers. For season-long interest, combine plants with varied flowering times so that some things will be ripening while others will be ready to harvest. In hot weather, water evaporates quickly from the elevated soil in a container. You may need to irrigate your pots every day if temperatures go above 90 degrees.

How to grow Small Tangerines Trees in pots

Select a large pot to grow your Small Tangerines Trees and put the pot into its final position before you begin to fill it with potting mix. Pots that are suitable must have several large drainage holes in their base and be elevated slightly off the ground. This can be achieved by raising the pot on pot feet or bricks. Don’t skimp on potting mix. Buy a good quality potting mix (look for ticks of approval on the bag) and make sure you have enough potting mix to fill the pot to within about 4cm of the rim (to allow space for watering). For a large pot – that is one that’s over 40cm in diameter – you’ll need several bags of potting mix.

Planting carrots in a Soda bottle

Grow carrots in a 2 liter soda bottle. so the kids can see what is happening, I love the idea.

How to grow basil

When to Plant : Plant The crowns in early-mid spring, as soon as the soil can be worked. Keep the asparagus patch free of weeds, especially for the first couple of years.

Watering : Water frequently as crowns get established. After a few years, supplemental water should be required only during periods of drought.

Wood Pallet Project

If you do this in your backyard remember to be careful you may need to ad reinforcements underneath. Pallets aren't made to be walked on just to hold evenly distributed weight.

Plastic Bottle Vertical Garden

Plastic Bottle Vertical Garden

Incredible Fire Pit Design Ideas

Incredible Fire Pit Design Ideas

Beautiful Way for Recycling Car Wheels in Peru

Beautiful Way for Recycling Car Wheels in Peru

the basics of herbs

You can get the materials from : amazon

Make A Butterfly Island Bed

Gardens come alive when butterflies visit. They’re fun to watch, and they’re fascinating for kids, who can learn how butterflies transform from eggs to caterpillars, and from pupas to adults. A raised butterfly island bed will attract these winged guests to your property. Keep a camera and garden journal handy to observe them, or just sit back and enjoy the colorful show.

How to Plant a Beer Garden

Brew up this clever container garden featuring plants used in the beer-making process.

You can get the materials from : amazon

How To Make a Planter Box From wood

This 3½-foot-tall box, is an especially easy project, taking only a few hours to build. Just buy a ready-made redwood window box at the nursery and attach sturdy legs. Then all you have to do is fill it with soil and plant.

Easy Way To Build a Small Greenhouse

This is a portable greenhouse, good to start seeds or small vegetables  (basil, parsley, salad, cilantro...). it's really fast and easy to built, and super economic and ecologic, I made mine all out of scraps and in little more than an hour.

Easy garden watering

 The whole system only took about 30 minutes to install. I had never dealt with any plumbing at all before and it was extremely easy. The snap nozzle at the end of the hose is great and quick if I need to use the other end of the hose for something else. It's great!
You can get the Snip-n-Drip Soaker System from amazon.

Beautiful Concrete Garden Furniture

Concrete and Nature united design/development of garden furniture

Pole Bean Hideaway

What a cute and cleaver idea! Clear around the planting area, for productive growth of the beans. Greate hideaway for kids in the yard, leave the grass in the center.

How To Plant a Winter Hanging Basket

Before You Plant
Stand the basket on a wide pot to keep it stable during preparation. Then add a specially made basket liner.

Cut Out Planting Holes
Lay a circle of plastic bag over the bottom of the liner to act as a reservoir. Cut out a few evenly spaced crosses around the sides of the liner.

DIY Concrete Ladybug

DIY Concrete Ladybug amazon

How to grow boxwood from cuttings

Boxwood is very easy to propagate. In the spring, take stem cuttings, 6 inches in length, and remove the lower inch of leaves. For best effect, group five to seven stems together, as pictured, to resemble an entire plant. Plunge this group into soil that has been amended with copious quantities of peat moss or leaf mold. Pack the soil firmly around the stems. Keep the cuttings moist, and you will have new, rooted plants in about six weeks.