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

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Getting Rid of Ants With Two Common Household Foods.

Though you may not know it, both rice (can be minute rice minute rice) and cream of wheat will get rid of ants. What happens is, they take it back to their nest and when they eat it it expands and literally blows them up to the point of death. So basically it is death by rice or cream of wheat for ants. :)  Remember to put it out on a dry day so it does not get wet and expand on its own least it will not work as well.

Happy gardening :)

Thursday, April 28, 2011

How To Control Weeds, Insects And Diseases In Your Garden





There are three types of pests that can plague gardens: weeds, insects, and diseases. Management is absolutely essential when concerning one of these three types of pests. In this article I have written a description and some control methods to eradicate the problems including all natural home treatments and control methods.

A weed is any plant that grows where it is not wanted. Weeds are undesirable because they compete with garden plants for light, water, and nutrients, often depriving the desirable plants of what they need and sometimes even smothering them by wrapping themselves around the garden plant and choking them out. This type of plant can become.....

 How To Control Weeds, Insects And Diseases In Your Garden 

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Small Gardens And The Best Ways To Make Them Bigger



This describes ways to make your small garden look bigger,more beautiful and most importantly,ways to have more plants growing in your garden without taking away from it.

Do you have a small garden and don’t what to do with it because it is just too small for any imagination,if so then think twice because there are lots of things you can do to improve your small space. The wonderful part about small gardens is that you can actually indulge and create......

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Small Gardens And The Best Ways To Make Them Bigger 

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

How to Boost Your Crops Of Strawberries For Next Year And Have A Fresh Supply All Season

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Information on how to get your berries into tip top shape so they will produce and ensure the best crop. Also includes information as to why different varieties are better than just one as well as four excellent varieties to have in your garden so you will have a fresh supply of strawberries for the whole growing season.

For full article please visit the link below. Hope you find this helpful and please feel free to share this article with others! Thanks Tanya

How to Boost Your Crops Of Strawberries For Next Year And Have A Fresh Supply All Season

Until next time happy reading and gardening!

Thursday, July 01, 2010

How To Capture Still Life Floral Photography


Well at last I have finally taken the time to put some of my floral photography tips into words. In this article I give advice as to how to capture better floral images turning them into beautiful images rather then snapshots. This article also includes tips on exposure, distance, positioning, lighting and macro.Hope you all enjoy! Feel free to share this article with others.

How To Capture Still Life Floral Photography

Until next time happy reading and gardening!

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

How To Successfully Grow Figs In Your Garden




Taking a look into the uses for the fig tree as well as an easy to follow guide for growing. Also includes harvesting information about when figs are ripe and should be picked.

Ficus otherwise known as the fig in common terms is a large deciduous tree or large shrub. They can easily grow to be about 15 feet in height, more in the wild and 10 feet in width. They are large leathery leaves and the flowers produced on them are on the inside of rounded,hollow,pear-shaped containers which are nearly closed at the top. This container then develops into a sweet edible fruit with or without fertilization.
Many gardeners tend to stay away from figs because of the uncertainly surrounding their cultivation as well as the fact most are unsure of their judgment........


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How To Successfully Grow Figs In Your Garden

Until next time happy gardening!

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Pruning And Training Your Berry Bushes



Looking into why you should grow your own berries and a short and easy to follow guide on how to prune and train your berry bushes. Also includes types of berry bushes including hybrids.

 
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Pruning And Training Your Berry Bushes

Until next time happy reading and gardening!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

How To Water Your Plants Properly Without Killing Them


Helpful and effective ways to water your plants properly without killing them, also looking into conserving water.

When it comes to watering plants you may think that as long as you water your plants they will live, however; by thinking this you are wrong. Many times people water their plants too much and by doing so they actually kill them by.................................
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How To Water Your Plants Properly Without Killing Them

Until next time happy gardening and reading!

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Save Money On Vegetable Gardens By Recycling Your Seeds


This article is about how you can have a cost effective vegetable garden by recycling your seeds. Includes guide to saving and how to information.

When starting a vegetable garden, even a small one, sometimes the costs of starting one can actually run away away on you considering that you not only have to purchase the seeds or plants but also compost, manure, fertilizer, canes, wires, twine and so on and if you not careful it somewhat defeats the purpose as it would than........................

To read full article please visit the link below. As always hope you find this helpful and enjoy! Feel free to share with others. Cheers Tanya 

Save Money On Vegetable Gardens By Recycling Your Seeds


Until next time happy gardening and reading!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Make Your Own Beautiful Art Work By Creating A Simple Garden


Tanya Kime-Wallace writes how a garden is much more then just a garden, it is art and how to use your own creativeness to make beautiful art by making a garden. For both the gardener who sees gardening as something more then just gardening and also for the amateur gardener who would like to learn about gardening as well as those who would simply like to know how to create a garden. All images are by author.

Creating a unique and interesting garden to suit your own style and tastes could prove to be much easier than you actually think. Many people believe that a beautiful garden is solely based on how much money they paid for the design or how much money was put into it, however; I for one do not believe that for a second. A garden is all about how it.....

For full article please visit the link below. I hope you enjoy and feel free to share with others. Cheers Tanya

Make Your Own Beautiful Art Work By Creating A Simple Garden

Until next time happy reading and gardening!

Friday, April 16, 2010



For both the amatuer gardener to the seasoned gardener, Tanya Kime-Wallace gives some helpful tips and effective ways to help you find the green thumb you thought you did not have for virtually any plant, vegetable or herb. All images are by author.

While some people can grow certain types of plants and vegetables that others seem to have no luck with, I have noticed that this cycle seems to go both ways. Though it may seem that some people only have luck with..............

 
For full article please visit link below.  I hope you enjoy and feel free to share with others! Thanks Tanya


The Secret To Finding Your Gardening Green Thumb


Until next time happy reading and gardening!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

A Passage Through Time

This article is a little off beat from what I normally add to this site,however; the gardens I visited were phenominal and I tried to add as many photos of them as the article would allow. To compensate for it not being a gardening article I have added 2 full version photo's of Dalhias I took from one of the gardens below. Feel free to download as a screen saver but if using for any other purpose please ask before using.




An historical adventure in a wonderful little town named Lewes situated in England, U.K. All images are by author. For full article visit the link below. Feel free to share with others.

A Passage Through Time


Until next time happy gardening!

Friday, November 27, 2009

Avoid Weeding with These Weed Suppressing Plants


Get rid of those unwanted weeds by planting these flowers…


All images are by author.

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Avoid Weeding with These Weed Suppressing Plants

Until next time happy gardening and reading!

Monday, November 23, 2009

How to Grow Inexpensive Christmas Gifts and Decorations


This is the first article among two in which I will be writing about which is the Christmas Poinsettia.This article contains all the information you need to know about how to grow a Poinsettia.The second explores how the tradition came to be as well as the legend behind the Poinsettia.
When we think of Christmas decorations in our homes or offices, the Poinsettia is among the top on everyone’s list as a decoration as we virtually see them everywhere at Christmas. This lovely plant is a world wide tradition that represents over 85 percent of all plant sales during the holiday season,generating over .......
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How to Grow Inexpensive Christmas Gifts and Decorations

Until next time happy gardening everyone!!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Our Secret Garden


This is a true story about finding something special in life.For me it was a garden,though it could relate to anything special,any dream and if your determined enough you will always find what your looking for,as hidden as it may be! To read full story visit the link below. Hope you enjoy and feel free to share with others!!

Our Secret Garden

Happy gardening everyone!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Perfect Christmas Gifts for Gardeners





By buying one of these simple,yet effective gifts, your bound to please any gardener you know for christmas.If you want to go big, I don’t think any gardener would say no to a nice new tool shed or greenhouse! But to be realistic most of us cannot afford such a luxery to buy for ourseleves, unless otherwise budgeted for, little alone give as a gift! To read full article or to read what other have to say about this article visit link below.Feel free to share with others!!

Perfect Christmas Gifts for Gardeners

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