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Getting started With Your Own Fall Flower Garden

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So you know that you want to get into gardening, but where do you start? Planting fall flower garden is very enjoyable and simple enough for the beginner gardener. Now if you want to go ahead and plant a fall flower garden in your yard, there are a few steps that you are going to have to take.

Fall Flower Garden: Plant in Spring

Although it is called a fall flower garden, remember that you are going to have to plant it in spring. The point here is that it is a fall flower garden because the plants will bloom in the fall. Flower garden makes a lovely landscaping around the yard and to bloom at the right time you have to choose right plant.

You want to find late blooming varieties of traditional spring and summer blooming flowers such as tulips, which are all going to work great in a fall garden. You can look up information and make sure that you spend some time researching whenever you are going to do anything with your garden, so that you know what you are doing and know that you are going to have the best results.

Adding a few climbers into the garden will be a great idea, because these will turn scarlet and red and will create a beautiful color pattern in the fall season around your home.

You are also going to want to plant a border around the garden. Not only is this going to be good for aesthetic appeal, but as well the border is going to help keep your plants contained. A border for your yard is very necessary so that your garden plant does not comes outside of it.

As long as you are researched and know what you are doing, and of course choose the right plants, then you are going to have great success with your fall flower garden and not only that but can enjoy yourself while you are doing it. That is one thing about gardening, and that is that although there may be a lot of things that you have to learn, at the same time you always want to keep it fun.

Gardening is a great hobby, because not only are you going to have fun and get more relaxed, but it is a great way to showcase your home and add to its appeal.







Growing Basil – Tips on Growing Basil

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Herbs are beneficial in many ways. Growing basil, Ocimum basilicum, is an easy way to spice up the garden and your favorite recipes. I am pleased to introduce, Basil, a sweet herb, member of the Mint Family. Although there is a few different varieties of basil, sweet basil is the most popular and well known. This herb is well known for flavoring foods and in its long past has been used for folk remedies.

Old tales-

Growing basil has a special significance in many cultures throughout the world. The people of India swore their oaths in court on basil leaves. Italian lovers would wear a piece of basil in their hair when courting ladies. The Mexicans believed it would bring back a cheating lover if you walked around carrying basil.

Medical uses-

There are big health benefits of growing basil. The plant contains beta carotene, naturally packed with vitamin A. The herb is known by herbalists as a ‘cure-all’ for a wide array of ailments, from stomach trouble to headaches. There are so many benefits derived from basil, that it is known as the ‘King of Herbs’.

How to Grow Basil-

No need to worry, growing basil is a breeze. The seed can be sown indoors, then transplanting outside at a later date. It can even be full grown indoors if preferred. If you decide to do this, remember the plant needs sunlight, so a man-made alternative should be used, like fluorescent growing lighting.

The seeds should be sown about 1” from each other, in a warm time of year. After a few leaves have grown, the basil can then be re-planted. Make certain you wait until a late frost is no longer a threat.

Add layer of mulch of about three inches. Organic mulch is an excellent choice. Watering should take place one day per week, before noon. Never use too much fertilizer, as this can remove the unique odor from the herb.

When re-planting, dig the herbs in at least 1 – 1 feet apart from each other, to ensure appropriate growing space. Growing basil has two main requirements: well draining soil, and a sunny, but damp area.

Basil should be pruned fortnightly to increase its hardiness. To do this, clip the leaves back, but stop ¼ inch above the node. This is to ensure enough foliage is left for growth to continue. Remove dead heads from flower stems for it to continue in good health.

Try growing basil near tomato plants. Both of these plants require a lot of sunlight, and watering, so it is convenient to place them close to each other. Just like in your famous spaghetti sauce, these 2 plants go well together. Basil is a big help around the kitchen and helps to repel insects in the garden.

After 6” of growth, the top leaves are ready to be pinched off. Basil plants can grow to approximately two feet tall. Growing basil not only adds to your culinary delights, but it is delightful addition in the garden.

Composting: Reducing Carbon Emissions

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Learning how to compost is one of the most earth friendly things you’ll ever do. Composting is simply a process of transforming your kitchen and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil. Composted soil is an optimal fertilizer for your yard, and helps with all gardening issues, including drainage, disease, and pest problems. It’s an easy, natural way to give life to the soil around your home in a natural way that doesn’t contaminate your soil with chemicals or poisons.

With composting instead of tossing the waste into the trash, you’re also actively reducing the amount of waste you’re sending to the landfill. The world’s landfills are bursting at the seams, while the population keeps growing, and this is becoming a more and more critical issue.

Many families can reduce the amount of waste leaving their homes by half or more, by composting everything they can. If you recycling everything you can, there ends up not being much to send to the landfill in the first place. The Earth and every future generation will thank you.

By composting, you’re also reducing greenhouse gas emissions in what can add up to be a rather significant sum. By composting, not only do you to cut back the greenhouse gasses created in the landfill, but composted soil actively pulls carbon dioxide out of the air. In fact, it’s possible for a person who actively tills compost into the land around just their home, to offset a year or more of the average American’s carbon emissions.

Think about what an impact it would make if every family composted instead of sending their waste to landfills. The soil around our homes would become healthy and nutrient-rich, the landfills would become controllable, and our greenhouse gas emissions would minimize too.

Learning how to compost is easy; there are plenty of resources on the net – a simple search can give you all of the information you need. Then, start with a simple compost bin or even make one yourself and get started with no investment but a little time.

Different rose types-shrub roses

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Different Types of Roses-Shrub Roses

Of all the rose types, the Shrub Rose is somewhat confusing because a rose, any rose in fact, is actually a shrub. Most varieties of roses can be considered shrub roses including hybrids, modern roses, old garden roses, and even miniature roses.In appearance this type of rose looks like a type of shrub, hence its name. The types of roses known as shrub roses are ideal for most parts of your garden.

Shrub roses can be used as a screen or hedge plant for privacy, as a border, in the background, and any other way you can think to use this bountiful bush. The blooms are not really scented but are available in a range of colors. Pink, red, white, and yellow are all common colors for a shrub rose’s abundant and vibrant flowers.

Unlike many other types of roses, Shrub Roses are perfect for planting anywhere. They’re “plant-friendly” and can mingle into any mixed assortment of flowers. In addition, Shrub Roses are very winter-hardy and they have excellent disease tolerance. These round easily-maintained bushes are not typically considered a “small” plant. Several types of shrub roses can exceed six feet in height. If desired, Shrub Roses can be trained to grow like hedges.

The modern shrub rose types are smaller than their ancestors. Several modern shrub rose types have been popularized in recent years. Different types of ground cover rose types such as Cliffs of Dover, Flower Carpet and Jeepers Creepers have been a treasure for homeowners with sloped or uneven lawns. They also grow wonderfully in hanging baskets and containers. Regardless which of the different types of shrub roses you choose, Shrub Roses can be a wonderful feature at the entrance to your garden or home.

If you purchase your shrub from a nursery, you’ll want to dig a hole that is double the width and length of the pot that contains your shrub. Use a sharp instrument to cut the plastic pot away. Disturb the root ball as little as possible. Once you have the plant free from its container, place it in the hole. Fill in the remaining space with loose soil and soak the plant with water. Make sure the plant is in a very sunny location. Generally speaking, Shrub Roses require a minimum of eight hours of full sun on a daily basis. The direct light combined with moist soil will ensure maximum flower production.

Fortunately, Shrub Roses require very little maintenance. The soil should always be moist. If you live in a climate that receives very little rain during the summer months, you’ll want to water these types of roses twice a week. If you’re looking for gorgeous results and optimal growth, fertilize your roses in the spring and fall with organic fertilizers. Pruning these rose types is does not really happen it is just a matter of a general tidying up. Shrub roses will release their own dead foliage, creating a neat appearance through every season. Some of the prettiest roses are ‘ever blooming.’  Purchase this type of shrub if you’re looking to purchase a recurrent bloomer that will profusely bloom several times annually.

Before you plant another green shrub, consider planting some different types of Roses instead. The biggest problem you will have with these types of roses are picking from the wide range of rose types available!

A Kitchen Herb Garden Is Easy and Enjoyable

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The flavor of fresh picked herbs simply can’t be beat. sinking your teeth into your meal and having your taste buds tingling with flavor is an experience to be delight in. Certainly, dried herbs might be more appropriate at times, but they are lacking the essential oils of fresh herbs that make flavors come alive. For the sake of your taste buds, why not grow a kitchen herb garden. Even if you don’t have a green thumb and don’t have a vegetable garden, herbs are uncomplicated to cultivate inside and all you need to get going are a few pots, soil, plant food and a bit of water, natural light and care.

When making a kitchen herb garden, you must keep in mind that there are mainly two sorts of herbs – annual and perennial. Both annuals and perennials are ideal for interior herb gardening and a delicious supplement to any recipe.

Annual herbs including dill, cilantro, chervil, basil, marjoram, chamomile and savory have one growing season and then die, however raising them in the house will likely lengthen that timetable somewhat. Perennials that are appropriate for a kitchen herb garden include sage, mint, chives, rosemary, tarragon, lavender and thyme. These types of herbs create new growth each season and the more you snip off to use for cooking, the bigger and better these plants will get.

Because perennials and annuals have dissimilar growing patterns, it may be wise to use different pots for each kind. Therefore, once an annual herb eventually dies or needs to be replaced, you will not be interrupting the well being and progress of a perennial that could produce for many more seasons.

For the beginner, it’s a smart move to avail yourself of seedlings rather than growing your herbs from seed. Many folks find it somewhat tricky to start from seed and become discouraged. Although as soon as they become young plants or seedlings, they are really easy to keep up. You can mix and match several herbs in a single large pot or use smaller single pots and plant the herbs individually. It’s completely up to your own inclinations, however you have to remember that annuals will need to be planted with other annuals and perennials are supposed to be grown separately.

The sort of container is unimportant providing there is a drainage hole at the bottom to keep the dirt from getting saturated. The location of the containers, in contrast, does matter, and you need to have a windowsill or some alternate place to locate your kitchen herb garden where it will receive plenty of sunshine. If you can provide the sunlight and some nurturing, you can soon be using fresh herbs in your next meal and bringing your taste buds alive.

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