Showing posts with label Designing garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Designing garden. Show all posts

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Modern Small Garden and Composting Decor by Groves-Raines Architect


This eco friendly small garden decor was giving us a simple decoration for our outdoor garden space to b e look more attractive and great. The decoration was using the metal work garden decor idea and the idea was to give the land being more comfortable and being the best space for the living things to live. The entire decoration of this construction was come from the diligent combination of the metal work and the natural ground decoration. At the end of this composting decoration we can cover the metal work with the ground that can be stuck on and the planter’s decoration. Actually, this modern garden composting designs will help our earth to be more comfortable to stay in. we will bring both new decoration and new atmosphere for our house space. We can place this decoration in both front and back side of our house. We can put this decoration based on our pleasure and our needs. The small construction of this garden decoration was match for the small house decoration, so guys don’t be shy to apply on this small composting garden construction.
Source: http://www.homehousedesign.com/modern-small-garden-composting-decor-groves-raines-architect/

eco friendly small garden decor

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Great Gardening Tips for Tomatoes

To get the best growing tips for tomatoes you need to first of all know what type of variety of tomatoes will grow well in your area. In other words what is suitable for the soil and also you must make sure you have done all the preparation work for your garden secondly what sort of tomatoes you wish to grow, you have two choices, determinate' or 'indeterminate' variety.

Tomato Romanita

A determinate means: tend to reach a fixed height and ripen all their fruit in a short period. So the determinate variety grows to a bush about 1 metre (3 feet) high, at this stage it stops growing and has a concentrated crop of tomatoes which can be picked over a few weeks. Indeterminate varieties keep growing and can reach a height of up to 5 metres (15 or more feet) when fully mature. The fruit from these can be picked over a period of 12 to 20 weeks. An example of the indeterminate variety is called Brandywine.

Best Growing Tips for Tomatoes:

1. Make sure you have worked your soil which needs to be rich and well-drained, add compost so it is rich in nutrients.

2. Decide what sort of tomatoes you wish to grow: determinate or indeterminate.

3. Do you wish to grow tomatoes from seed or seedlings.

4. Make sure you have the correct tomatoes for your particular soil and the area in which you live.

5. When watering your tomatoes only water around the soil not on the leaves.

6. Plant tomatoes in full sunlight as they tend to thrive.

The above are only a few tips for growing tomatoes, you need to do your own research, talk to other gardeners and your local plant store for more information.


Author:Rose
Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/gardening-articles/great-gardening-tips-for-tomatoes-3658297.html

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Designing a Tropical Garden With a Little Cost

Two weeks ago my friend asked me something about designing a tropical garden. He wanted to design a garden with tropical design, but he was confused because they have no idea.he said, he want smaller water feature like a pond or riverbed into his landscape.
Another problem he faced was the cost to create a tropical garden. with little cost, then I started making a list of everything that we will buy.
And finally we agreed to purchase:
  • 2 sacks of cement, 4 sacks of sand, 2 bags of gravel, a water pump. (This is the material to create a small pond and decor)
  • small size of the bamboo trees, palm trees, small size.
  • some herbaceous plants.

to design this garden we do it in 3 days. first and second day we use to make a small pond. It took 2 days to make the pond dry and perfect. on day three we set all the trees that we buy and finish.

then a week after making the garden, my friend bought koi fish to fill a small pond.turned out with little cost we can create a tropical garden with great results.