Omega Garden Carousel. The Omega Garden™ Farmdominium/Vertical Farming is our answer to commercial and industrial-scale urban agriculture.
Each horizontal carousel carries 36 Volksgarden™ modules. Each Volksgarden module has approximately 20 foot square surface growing area. Rotary motion effect on plants shows an increase in growth rates of up to a factor of five observed. Square Foot Gardening Templates. March 19th, 2009 A few of you asked about the template I was using in my photo yesterday, so I decided to explain what they are and how we made them.
I use the Square Foot Gardening method in my raised beds. Which basically means that I break my raised beds down into square foot sections for planting. I don’t plant each square with something different as other people do, I usually plant large sections of different types of plants. This is how I like my beds organized. Basically these are a square foot piece of some scrap plywood we had laying around. I contemplated having him make ones that had dowels or small squares of wood nailed for spaces so I could “punch” the holes into the soil with them, but we didn’t have any dowels and these were much faster (I think they’re 2 inch holes). You could drill smaller holes in these, but I decided I wanted larger ones to have room to work and so I wouldn’t risk getting any splinters or anything. 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.
The Urban Garden, brainchild of Bill Arquitt, resolves both of these issues, making it efficient and simple to plant a vegetable garden with up to 55 plants in a 3-foot deep by 4-foot wide footprint. The contained six level tiered system is nearly maintenance-free, eliminating heavy weeding, and its northwestern cedar construction renders it naturally bug repellent. Custom Tree House Plans, DIY Ideas & Building Designs. No, really: would you want to design, build and live in an real fantasy tree house all year round?
More and more people have decided to do just that and where treehouses were once novelty architecture for kids they are now (almost) mainstream structures, as attested to by the pictures above via Bella Seven. Many modern tree house designs and home designers and custom builders take a site-specific approach and construct their tree buildings around not only views and rooms but also have to account for access and structural support in unique and novel ways. Some of the results are little auxiliary spaces intended for guests or vacations while others are fully developed tree homes with everything need for daily living. Preplanned Vegetable Gardens by Gardeners Supply - StumbleUpon. With our free online planner, you can design a super-productive vegetable garden, based on square-foot gardening techniques instead of traditional rows.
When to Plant Vegetable Seeds. Rosalind Creasys new Edible Landscaping. After Rosalind Creasy tore out her front lawn and planted a vegetable garden, real estate agents stopped by to offer their services. With such great curb appeal, they said, the home would be an easy sell. That was in 1984, two years after the publication of Creasy's groundbreaking book, "Edible Landscaping. " Since then, designer Creasy has established herself as one of the pioneer foodie-gardeners, and Sierra Club Books has just released the much-anticipated second edition of "Edible Landscaping" ($39.95).
(That's the author's Black Satin blackberry vines, above, fruiting among the blooms of her climbing rose bush. In the new edition, Creasy reports that one year the plant yielded nearly 30 pints of berries.) First Planting On The Balcony. 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... According to this article from the Seattle Times, potatoes planted inside a box with this method can grow up to 100 pounds of potatoes in just 4 square feet. All that is required: How to build a shed, free shed plans, build it yourself! This page contains information on how to build a shed and storage shed plans.
Here are a couple of things to consider before you begin this project. Find out before building a storage shed if it will be allowed by zoning regulations. Zoning governs the size, height, and location of your shed. Find out if you need a permit. Your shed may need to be set back a specific distance from the property line, fences, and buildings. Aluminum Can Plant Markers. Thank you for visiting Little House in the Suburbs.
Please subscribe and you'll get great simple living tips and how-to articles delivered to your inbox, for free! This is not the easiest way to mark your seedlings. It’s not the most gorgeous. But it’s free, lasts indefinitely and it’s kinda fun. Gardens To Gro& - Ready Made Vegetable Gardens. Self-Seeding Crops You’ll Never Need to Replant. One of the characteristics of a truly sustainable garden is that it produces at least some of its own seed.
This is most often done when gardeners select, harvest and store seeds until the proper time for planting the following year. But some self-seeding crops produce seeds so readily that as long as you give them time to flower and mature, and set seed, you will always have free plants growing in your garden. You can simply let the seeds fall where they are, or toss pieces of the seed heads into the corners of your garden, or whichever area you want them in — no harvesting, storing or replanting required.
How to build a gable storage shed, pictures and step by step instructions... Root 4 Kids - Inspire Kids to Dig Real Food. Email Does your kid spend enough time outside? Research shows most kids don’t, but new Root 4 Kids program created by Annie’s organic foods aims to encourage and inspire kids and families to get outside, dig into nature and eat healthier by offering recipes, gardening tips and activities — and we’re happy they’re leading the charge. Be Out There notes that kids spend just half as much time outdoors as they did 20 years ago which makes little sense for green families, since studies show that the best direct route to teaching little ones to care for the environment is to allow them to participate in nature activities before the age of 11.
Plus, by the time most U.S. children enter kindergarten, they’ll have spent more than 5,000 hours in front of a television — that’s enough time to earn a college degree! Top this off with staggering childhood obesity rates due to lack of activity and poor eating habits, and well, childhood is starting to look pretty abysmal. . + Root 4 Kids. 4 Simple Steps to Grow a Hundred Pounds of Potatoes in a Barrel.
Backyard Farmers: 25 Websites You Should Be Reading. 75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You Couldnt - Planet Green. Do it Yourself & Page 2. Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy. Lawn care in a nutshell: Must do: Set your mower as high as it will go (3 to 4 inches).
Water only when your grass shows signs of drought stress and then water deeply (put a cup in your sprinkler zone and make sure it gets at least an inch of water). VERTICAL VEGETABLES: "Grow up" in a small garden and confound the cats! Gutter Gardens Grow Produce Without Taking Up Space.