Garden Hardware

You can make your miniature accessories, buy ready-made, or collect a few random small items that match the theme of your miniature garden. I just have to remember to bring them indoors once the temperatures start dropping below 50 degrees at night.Inspect...

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Maybe I should just look intoEnough of that nonsense, I like it here. That cannot be good. I've already started someunder the lights upstairs. Temperatures are in the negatives. There are many forums here.

Victory gardens---an idea that was lost to me. The story I am told is that this photo was taken on the day they planted their first WWII victory garden. Our counterparts inand many other friendly nations also took part in the effort.

At the beginning of the growing season the plots are roto-tilled and turned over to the residents. I want to show you a few of my favorites in this series. They can grow whatever they wish be it flowers, vegetables or both.

This Saturday feature will spotlight projects gardeners can create for inexpensive garden art and gifts. My garden ended up on my concrete driveway pad next to the Gronomics planters.Finally! The water goes in.

The fourth in my series on community gardens will be more of a pictorial than verbal. These folks are all Korean. I guess gardening is a universal language. I estimate the garden is about 2 acres in size are divided in plots that are about 20X10 feet...

Food depots began to see a rise in people who need food and had little money buy it.Community activists began to discuss how these disadvantaged folks could be helped. This left many vacant lots throughout the city which became littered and weed choked.The...

That is where Kanso and Seijaku come in.Step 3: The sand or gravel goes in now. Then there is the material you are going to use for the frame to keep your sand in. It is said to mean childlike wonder, fantasy-like or otherwordly.

The second garden in my series on community gardens has a lot of historical significance behind it. His mansion Fairlane is ¼ mile east of the garden. I used to have a plot in this garden; I liked to go over early in the morning and work from dawn until...

There have been fish kept in it for awhile until we got the pond finished. I just couldn't bring myself to throw it out.Then, one day it hit me. The one pictured in the photo belongs to DG member carrielamont.Over the years I have used many things to...

Suggestions are welcome!8. I will update my online garden journal more often.for several years, but I use the term "kept" loosely. I never fertilize them. Adjacent to the arbor are the three now-dead Indian Hawthorns referenced in #8 above.Directly behind...

She uses 5 or 6 for strength. The air grinder with a cut-off wheel was available, but as rusty as this chair was, it wasn't entirely necessary. My niece Cassidy, was a willing model and enjoyed creating this frugal piece of garden art.The rusty patio...

Cover with 3 to 4 inches of soil-compost mix. After these are harvested I'll plant spinach and lettuce as a fall crop.Vinyl gutters come in 10 feet lengths. The soil will settle once watered.Plant seeds or starts according to planting instructions.

It was late morning and the sunlight took away the color of the palm and made this shot look like a black and white photo. It is a wonderful example of color that can be included in a garden with materials other than plants.

I also remembered how much fun the kids had under the "pickle teepee" we had made for them out of sticks, strings, and cucumber seeds years ago. Method with a strong trellis for my tomatoes.

An analemmatic sun clock takes the time of year into account by having the human "gnomon" stand on the designated spot for the current month in the centrally located calendar section of its layout.

The dahlias turned black with the first frost, and now are safely tucked away for winter in a cool spot in the basement. How long will it take them to germinate? Next year I shall…2) Determine if the neighbor's grandson is allergic to bumblebee stings.3)...

If you keep the bulk of your garden art in the flower beds, you are most likely okay.If you still have more plants than art, see above. OK, so we all have a little garden art here and there.

These feature displays of both, many of which are grown in the Cantigny greenhouse, which is not usually open to the public.The Octagon Garden is a secluded paved area enclosed by hedges, with geometric flower beds that featurein the spring, annuals from...

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What is a "no-wa-wa" fountain? If you'd like to order one, here are some current suppliers:These items are available at home improvement stores and hardware stores. The term "no-wa-wa", perhaps a tad cutesy, originated several decades ago in a contest...

Spring can start slow here, snow lingers and the wind blows chill sometimes well into May. That doesn't stop the birds from singing and the grass from greening, or me from putting it all into words.

His fictional counterpart is Brother Cadfael, the mystery-solving monk of the Ellis Peters novels. Visitors to Fiacre's garden brought seeds and plants from afar, and his gardens became famous throughout Europe.After his death in 670 A.D., people who...

That is atender new growth. Let me explain why I prefer the spring. When they reach the top of their support and start hanging back down over themselves, I'll go and cut them back after they have flowered.

The second year I will plant the onion sets and harvest the onions. I worked very hard and managed to have a good onion harvest. They just sold the house and rented the land to other people living there, to use it for growing cereals or whatever they...

Here's how I do it:6: Sprinkle each bale with ½ cup of the fertilizer and water well into bales.: Cut back to ¼ cup fertilizer per bale per day and continue to water well.: No more fertilizer is needed, but continue to keep the bales damp.: Insert your...