Com.post.ability. Keep Bees, Naturally! If you’d like to benefit your garden and community and offer a treat to your taste buds, consider trying your hand at natural beekeeping in your own backyard.
As honeybees gather pollen and nectar to make 50 pounds or more of pure, wild honey per hive, they pollinate crops nearby — and up to four miles away. This pollination is essential for good yields for some flowering crops. How to Plant a Honey Bee Friendly Garden. In the winter of 2006 the honey bee population began to die out.
Since then, as much as 70% of some bee populations have died as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Seventy farm grown crops, about one-third of our natural food supply, rely on honey bees for pollination. Imagine peanut better without jelly. If the honey bees disappear, so will the grapes and the strawberries, along with many of the other foods that have become not only favorites, but staples of the modern diet. You can help restore the honey bee population with a bee friendly garden. Seeds at Risk in AgroBusiness. Agros Technica. O Cultura. Bio_Lab10-EnergyDynamics.pdf. 8 Most Profitable Plants To Grow. Ginseng Roots Can Bring Up to $400 a Pound Growing plants for profit is a great way to turn your gardening skills into serious cash.
While most of us immediately think of tomatoes or salad greens, the most profitable plants are specialty crops that are not always found in a home vegetable garden. Agros Cultura. New Organica. 17 Apart: How To: Plant Seeds Using Eggshells. We were excited when our Sprout Robot alert went off that it was time to start broccoli seeds indoors this weekend for our zip code.
With the move and being in the midst of colder months, we are seriously lacking in the gardening department, except for our avocado sprouts (which we have an exciting update on coming tomorrow). We located our organic broccoli seed packet from last year's garden and hit up our gardening Pinterest boards (mine & hers) where we've been collecting ideas for creative planting all winter. We had one particular idea we'd seen pinned in mind and couldn't wait to try for ourselves — eggshell seed planters. Grow The Easiest Garden on Earth. How to make free self-watering containers for rooting tomato cuttings. Hardening off Six days after being potted and resting in the shade on the porch, the cutting is now officially a tomato plant complete with a bloom.
It's time to harden it off by placing it in direct sun for a few hours a day over the next several days. Expose the plant to three hours of direct sunlight at first and work up to eight hours. How To Grow Potatoes in Pots : Potatoes : HGTVGardens. Simple Steps to Success: Fruit and Vegetables in Pots, 34Google 4Stumble Share.
20 Edible Potted Plant Ideas : Photo Albums : HGTVGardens. How to Build a Square Foot Garden. Update!
Check out our new Square Foot Gardening Infographic for even more tips, diagrams, a plant list and much more. I recently stumbled upon a book (All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space! By Mel Bartholomew) with an interesting gardening method called square foot gardening, and decided we would give it a try. I’ve always thought the idea of having a vegetable garden would be a lot of fun. Ways To Create More Growing Space. By Cindy Naas The biggest challenge any urban gardener faces is that of finding enough room to grow everything.
Here are some suggestions to help you use every available inch of space. You might be surprised at just how much fresh produce you can grow in a tiny city garden! How to Grow 100 Pounds of Potatoes in 4 Square Feet. On many occasions, we've been tempted to grow our own potatoes.
They're fairly low maintenance, can be grown in a pot or in the ground, last a fairly long time if stored properly, and can be very nutritious (high in potassium and vitamin C). Here's more incentive: according to this article, you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 sq. feet. Learn how after the jump... How to build My 50 Dollar Greenhouse. First off – you really can build this thing very cheaply, but to do so you have to recycle, freecycle, and scrounge.
If you just go out and buy new everything it will probably cost over $200 – still not bad all in all.This Article is featured in Jan 2010 issue of Birds and Blooms Magazine! Greenhouses from Old Windows and Doors. Greenhouses made from Old Windows and Doors Calling all used awning windows, bay windows, storm doors and clerestories... back to service. Greenhouse made from recycled windows by Jan and Ed Vitse of New Look Floral (a garden and floral business) in Rochester, Mn.. This little gem, made from recycled windows was built in 2003. The structure is 12 feet long by 6 1/2 wide, and 10 1/2 feet tall. newlookfloralrochester.com Constructed from reclaimed doors, windows and millwork from a home renovation.
Kitchen Garden: Home Made Worm Farm. Wriggly, squiggly, squishy, messy worms. Whether you love them or they make you squeamish, worm farming is one of the most rewarding gardening activities for improving the health and harvest of your garden. Why you want to make a worm farm A worm farm is the most simple way to turn your household food waste into amazing, nutrient-rich garden fertiliser. With minimal effort you get not one but two fantastic natural fertilisers – ”worm tea” fertiliser and worm poo (vermicast) that can be used as garden compost. Worms will happily eat most of your kitchen waste (no citrus, onions or meat please!) There are also fantastic benefits for the environment. Why you should DIY it, instead of buy it.
40 Inspiring DIY Herb Gardens. If you love to cook you most likely can’t live without fresh herbs. You can buy them when you need them but it would be much better if you will always have them in pots near by. Small Footprint, Big Yield: Create an Easy Micro Organic Urban Garden Today!
April 28, 2009 by Robin Plaskoff Horton There are two things urban gardeners are short on: space and time. How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden. Good news and bad news. I had planned to film a short video showing you how to make a pallet garden, but the weather didn’t cooperate. I was stapling the landscape fabric onto the pallet when it started drizzling and got really windy.
That’s the bad news. But I know I promised a tutorial today, so I took photos and have kept my word to share how to make the pallet garden. I tried to be as detailed as possible. Window Farming: A Do-It-Yourself Veggie Venture. Urban Gardening. A community database of wild foods. Grow plants from your groceries, like ginger root and pineapple! - StumbleUpon. Hydroponics. How to Grow The Top 10 Most Nutritious Vegetables in Your Garden. By Colleen Vanderlinden Treehugger A perfectly ripe, juicy tomato, still warm from the sun. Sweet carrots, pulled from the garden minutes (or even seconds!) Before they’re eaten.
Growing your own vegetables is one of those activities that balances practicality and indulgence. And don’t let the lack of a yard stop you – all of them can be grown in containers as well. How to Grow your Own Chanterelle Mushrooms at Home. 5 Favorites: Espaliered Fruit Trees Gardenista. Older 5 Favorites: Espaliered Fruit Trees by Michelle Slatalla Issue 60 · Film Fest · February 20, 2013 Newer Issue 60 · Film Fest · February 20, 2013 Fruit trees are the most attractive espaliers precisely because of their gnarliness—it creates structural interest that the winter garden might otherwise miss sorely: Above: More than 50 'Conference' pear trees trained into an archway at West Dean Gardens in Sussex, UK.
Keyhole Gardens. Keyhole Gardens. Urban Vertical Garden Built From 100's Of Soda Bottles. As part of an innovative partnership called Home Sweet Home (Lar Doce Lar) between multidisciplinary design firm Rosenbaum and TV producer Luciano Huck, the teams went through dozens of Brazilian homes doing dramatic makeovers of interior and exterior spaces. On their 48th home Rosenbaum designed a pretty amazing vertical garden that was suspended in a narrow walkway just outside the house. VERTICAL HERB GARDENS - gardening, planting, nature, garden, sustainable lifestyle, do-it-yourself, creative environmental options, craft, organics, gardening, planting, flower pots, reusing, old and vintage, nature, environmental news, recycling tips, br.