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Bamboo Flooring - Better for the Environment than Hardwood Flooring and Easy to Fit
The modern, environmentally friendly and durable alternative to
hardwood is bamboo flooring. Being a grass, as opposed to
timber, gives bamboo the edge as a not only a building product
(being strong and at the same time flexible), but also as...
Build A Simple Planter Box
Love flowers, but don't have the space -- or the desire -- to plant a garden? You may want to try making your own flower box, which can be just about any size you wish. This planter box is built with a top and a bottom exterior frame; then you...
Building A Container Water Garden
Once you’ve chosen a spot for your container water garden – remember, 6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day, no overhanging trees, and a nearby water source (and power source if you’ll be using a circulating pump for a waterfall) – you get to the...
Garden Composters and Composting Basics
Why Compost? Recent studies show that an average family throws away approximately 200 pounds of organic kitchen waste every year. Combine this with all the leaves, grass clippings and other organic garden waste accumulated over time and that's a...
Gardening Fun With Children
Do you recall your very first plant? Your first garden? Perhaps it was the geranium seeds you planted in a milk carton or Styrofoam cup as part of a class project. Perhaps, if you were lucky, it was your own corner of your parent’s garden, staked...
How to uy a Porch Swing
The Porch Swing is enjoying a surge in popularity thanks to the latest Home & Garden trend towards building "Garden Rooms". Patio Furniture Retailers have responded by flooding the market with so many options that making a choice can be a daunting...
Installing Vinyl Siding - Making It Simple
Installing vinyl siding can be a very rewarding process that could dramatically change the appearance of your home. For the most part, if you plan your job well and adhere to some simple guide lines, anyone could learn how to install siding to...
Rising Damp
It doesn’t sound like a particularly interesting topic, however a quick search on the worlds favourite internet search engine will show that in some circles rising damp is a very hot topic indeed. The trouble is that it appears that it could...
Things To Consider When Building A House
It is everyone's dream to own their own home. For most people, purchasing a home is likely the biggest single investment they will make in their lifetime. With new housing starts at an all-time high, it may be time for you to consider getting...
Winterizing a Vacation Home
Unlike winterizing your main home, winterizing a vacation or summer home effectively means closing down the home for the winter. However, winterizing a vacation home or summer home really only involves a few basic tasks that can be completed in...
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Do Plants Have Special Needs?
Some gardeners treat their plants like people, and they have some good reasons to do that. Just as each of us is different in a certain way, plants have different needs in order to grow in good conditions. Of course, you can create a garden by randomly seeding this and that but the final result has little chances of being satisfactory. There are many factors that come into the gardening process: plant species, soil type, climate, humidity, temperature, shade etc.
Some plants, such as cucumbers or tomatoes, for example, need plenty of water in order to grow large and produce good harvests. Some flower species such as Candytuft, English Daisies or Roses need a good amount of humidity as well. When these water hungry flowers and vegetables are deprived of humidity, they remain small and their leaves are yellowish. Insufficient amounts of water also make these plants more vulnerable to pests and diseases.
Other plants, however, thrive in the exact places where one of the flowers and vegetables mentioned above would perish. Sweet Alyssum, for example, is one of those flowers that are extremely drought resistant. In fact, too much humidity is potentially dangerous for Alyssum. Baby's Breath is another flower that is very well adapted to hot and dry environments.
Protecting your plants from pests is another thing you should keep in mind when building your garden. Some plant diseases are contagious between species, so most expert gardeners try to protect their
plants by a smart placement. Those plants that are likely to have the same parasites or diseases are planted further away from each other in order to diminish the risks.
You will often find gardeners that prefer to use container planted flowers and vegetables. This is an interesting approach to gardening, as the containers area easily moved, much like you would rearrange your furniture. When the weather gets too hot or too cold for some plants you can just take the container out of the garden and into a more suitable place. There are some problems related to container plants. The most difficult thing concerns the confinement of the roots, a factor that will limit plant growth to less than you would achieve if the same plant were in the soil. Containers also have different humidity and drainage elements that may prove to be negative for some plants.
Of course, you may also try to start things the easy way. There are many plants that are easy to grow. Beans are probably one of the fastest and easiest to grow vegetables. Carrots and onion are also easy to maintain and they require very little attention from the gardener. There are also different flower species that won’t waste too much of your time. Cleome flowers, for example, will manage on their own in the roughest of conditions. Other flowers that are easy to grow are the Coreopsis and the Gaillardia.
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