How to Build a Patio

Most patios take time, and days of effort, to build. But a small, detached patio like the one pictured here comes together quickly with minimal effort.

Think of the possible uses for this circle of bricks. You can tuck it into a perennial border. Or place it in a remote corner of your garden, where you can linger at day's end over a glass of wine, or on Sunday morning with a latte while perusing the papers.

Incredible Fire Pit Design Ideas

Incredible Fire Pit Design Ideas

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.

Window bird house

Great idea! How exceiting to be able to watch birds build their nest and hatch their babies right from my own window. Love the simple yet sturdy construction. The natural wood can be left as is, or finished if desired. The instructions gave ideas for placement, and it stuck easily to my window with very secure suction cups.

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.

How To Lay a Brick path

Also from ‘This Old House’, how to lay a gravel path. I would use this material for a more casual home, but remember to choose gravel that compacts together for easy walking. Round pea gravel is not easy to walk in!

How to build a bench around a tree

MATERIALS :

Compound miter saw or circular saw

Drill/driver with a 3⁄8-inch spade bit and 3⁄32x3-inch bit

Speed Square

Clamps

Adjustable wrench

4-foot level

Garden spade

120-grit sandpaper

How to Space-Saving Herb Garden

Vertical Gardening is quite the trend this year. From salad gardens built on hanging wooden planks to the inventive use of hanging shoe organizers. And why not? It is the classic cook’s conundrum: You want to have fresh herbs at arm’s reach, but you haven’t got the space for an entire herb garden—or you live in an apartment with very little outdoor space. So, we created our own simple DIY solution that props your herb garden up with basic yard lattice.

How to Jardín vertical móvil con un palé

Una manera sencilla de crear un elegante mini jardín vertical con hierbas aromáticas como el orégano, el cilantro o el romero. Una inspiradora idea, perfecta para los amantes de la cocina natural a los que les guste tener a mano productos frescos y naturales.

You can get the materials from : amazon

How to Sillas transformadas en jardineras

Las viejas sillas que ya no queremos pueden tener una segunda vida como peculiares macetas o jardineras de exterior. Una ingeniosa idea de reciclaje que ayudará a dar un toque colorista y original a nuestro jardín.

You can get the materials from : amazon

Tantos Besos por Besar

Tantos Besos por Besar es un libro de cuentos de amor, de locura, y de muerte.

You can get the materials from : amazon

How to Recover Your Patio with Envirotile

If you’re looking for an environmentally friendly way to spruce up your patio space, consider covering that concrete slab with attractive tiles made entirely of recycled materials. Multy Home diverts over 2.5 million tons of tires from landfills to produce their green products, including the Envirotiles line of durable outdoor tiles. They can be installed on top of existing outdoor surfaces, on level dirt, and can even be put down in basement areas inside your home. We asked Above Average Joe of the Home Depot Garden Club Forums to help demonstrate how easy it can be to install Environtiles on a concrete patio surface.

Grow Squash, Cucumbers and Melons Vertically

If you are planning to plant cucumbers, melons, or squash in your vegetable garden this year, think vertically!

The main thing you want avoid are any varieties that are labeled or marked “Bush Variety” because those won’t climb properly.

Look for a “Vining Variety” because you’ll want to make sure it can climb your trellis, stake, or netting properly.

Here are some standard varieties that will do well:

Grow Hydrangea From Cutting

First  Find a hydrangeas and cut some small branches.

2. Place your cuttings in water, at least for an hour. Then Cut the top and the top of each leave.

3. take a flower pot. And place a coffee filter inside the pot. This will prevent the soil from escaping and it will keep the soil moist.

4. Mix potting soil, manure and compose. I used 1/2 of potting soil, 1/4 of manure and 1/4 of compose.

5. Place the cutting in the pot.

6. Water those babies. My daughter love this part!

7. After the soil is moist use two sticks and place them in the pot. They have to be taller than the cutting.

8. Put the ziplock bag on top of the plant. Make sure to use a big enough bag and that the leaves or the plant aren't touching the bag. That is what the sticks are for!

9. Place them in a shaded area where thy don't receive direct sunlight. I put them in my enclose porch in the floor. Make sure to keep an eye on them and water them.

10. After 3 weeks your cuttings should have roots and they are ready to put outside. Leave them in the pot, outside the bag in sunlight for one more week. After that they should be ready to plant! Enjoy!



You can get the materials from amazon.

How to potato harvest!

I just returned from a week-long trip to Utah and I had a blast with friends and family. It’s nice to be home with my family and be in my garden again. I was so anxious to get home and harvest my potatoes because my husband said they were ready. We dug them up yesterday afternoon and I was happy to have a great yield. I got 34 potatoes, counting a really tiny one! It was so much fun growing them and I will for sure grow them again. To see the process of  growing yukon gold potatoes click on the potato category to the right for older blog posts.

I will plant sweet potatoes in this bin next week. I tried growing a sweet potato slip like I did last year but it never sprouted. I found a farm that sells sweet potato plants online and ordered 12 plants for $13. It is George’s Plant Farm in Tennessee and here is the link if you want to order some. I ordered the vardeman variety and I have never tried it, but it sounded like a great type to grow. I plan to plant three bins of sweet potatoes!

On a side note I have discovered many, many long-lost comments in my spam folder. I didn’t know they were there and now feel so much blog love! In the next few days I will answer the questions in the various posts. Thanks for being such kind readers! I feel connected to fellow gardeners like me that just want to grow something. My garden and this blog has certainly been a fun journey for me. Best wishes to all and happy gardening!

Also: today is the last day of the Mother’s Day Contest. Drawing tonight at midnight. Please forward this link to anyone that might want to give their mom a garden for Mother’s Day! Five lucky winners will win the plans to build it.

You can get the materials from amazon.

via: potato harvest!

How To Brick Garden Border

Both concrete and brick pavers make a simple, handsome border and work well as edging material too. They're ideal when you want a wide border that keeps grass out of the garden, yet allows flowers and other plants to spill over without intruding onto the grass. You're less likely to chop them up with the lawn mower.

You can get the materials from amazon.

Starting Seeds Indoors

• Step 1 : Fill 4-inch pots to just below the rim with a light, porous seed-starting or potting mix. Moisten the mix, and let it drain.
• Step 2 : Scatter seeds thinly over the surface. and cover the seeds with the proper amount of mix.

Growing squash and zucchini plants vertically

I used rope and plastic bags cut into strips to tie it to a t-post. It has gone over the top of the 5 foot post so I have since added an extension on it.
zucchini seeds , squash seeds.

Forcing Spring Bulbs in Pots

How To :

• Step 1 : Working in layers, plant bulbs in a container filled with coarse potting soil, ensuring that no bulb is planted directly above another bulb. Plant the tallest flowers deepest in the pot, and move up with shorter and shorter varieties. Cover each neck with 1 inch of soil. Water.