The Eight Simple to Follow Steps for a New Garden

Posted by admin | Posted in Garden | Posted on 08-11-2009

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Creating a garden at home is refreshing and made us feel relaxed and calm. To those who wanted to have their own nice garden at home, listed below are 8 of the simple to follow step for your new garden.
First Step – Putting a marker
In order for your garden to be at its best, put some fun shape on it with some entertaining curves or shapes that’s pleasing and attracting to our eyes. Get the right shapes laying your hose to create and outline. If you already have the outline of your liking, you can already mark the edges with sand or flour.
Second Step – Getting rid of the grass
Now it is time to get rid of those grasses that grow in your garden spot by digging it up with a shovel or grass cutter.
Third Step – Digging
After the grasses are off, it is now the time for digging, removing those rocks, roots, debris, and more. If you have poor soil, then you can also add up some organic matter into your garden.
Fourth Step – Edging the bed
Put an edge into your new garden bed to keep the lawn from crawling into your garden. You can put a trench of about 8 inches deep and a couple of inches wide to keep those invaders from crossing.
Fifth Step – Placing your plants
Placing your plants at the right place is the fifth and exciting step in creating a garden. Put a space just right for them to look good next to each other.
Sixth Step – Planting
After you have placed your plants at their right places and spaces, it is now the time for you to plant.
Seventh Step – Spreading mulch
Now that you have the plants, cover your garden with mulch to keep it healthy and low-maintenance. Mulch help keep moisture and lessen the growth of weeds.
Eighth Step – Watering
Now you have your plants planted and covered it with mulch, water your plants with enough water to have a good soaking.

Save Money from Your Garden

Posted by admin | Posted in Garden | Posted on 28-10-2009

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Many of us are not aware that we are already spending huge amount of money for our beautiful gardens. However, if we are sum up our expenses related to our garden we might be shocked of how much we have spent already. Therefore, to help you get started in saving money from your garden, a few tips are listed below.
Buying in small quantities is a great way to start. Buying like half an ounce of seeds for your tomato plant is obviously not ideal.
The variety of plant seeds offered by a mail-order catalog can be great however, if you will buy more from them, there might be a possibility that you will be paying too much for shipping. Settling on a few form mail-order sources is a good move.
For your heavy stuff like organic fertilizer, bone meals, green sands and so on, it is advisable for you to have it bought from your local retail sources. These items can be cheap to buy but are costly when shipped.
Sourcing out alternative sources for your garden materials is a great way of saving money. Yes, you can have your good mulch from a retail store near you but this is priced according. If you were to buy a bale of straw or mulch from a farm store, this can only be priced as livestock bedding.
Keeping on the lookout for a free garden material is another effective trick to save money from gardening. Many of the utility company and sanitation departments are giving away mulch and comports made from leaves and organic wastes.
Buying off-season is very helpful if you want to save a lot from your garden plants. There might be a tendency for you to find a shrub at $14.50 if you buy it in October, which is much cheaper than buying it in May at $25.
The abovementioned tips can be a few, but will surely be of big help for you to save money.