Gardeners Supply
When Planning Gardening For Kids
When planning gardening for kids, make it convenient for them to get to, but you might want to plant close to the kitchen where the children can harvest items under your watchful eye.
Plants that are a natural source of food for birds in your area are easily incorporated into most gardens. Plants that are larger, or that are purchased at a local nursery, tend to be more expensive and may require more maintenance to ensure a nice transfer to your backyard landscape. Plants that have strong root systems when taken out of the pot should have the roots broken up by tearing them along the edge of the soil that was against the side of the pot at a few points around the circumference. Read the rest of this entry »
Ladybugs Are One A Gardener’s Best Friends
If you see a Ladybug in your garden or on your flowers, don’t kill it! Ladybugs are one a gardener’s best friends. Ladybugs eat the harmful bugs and insects that would feast on your garden plants, vegetables and flowers.
Adult Ladybugs and their larvae are voracious eaters that will devour aphids, thrips, chinch bugs, and several other varieties of scale insect and beetles.
Ladybugs are harmless to humans and even though they are docile and beneficial to garden plants, Ladybugs have their own methods of protection from predators, like ants. Ladybugs have a tough outer shield for protection and the ability to hide from predators by flattening themselves against a plant leaf. Read the rest of this entry »
Vegetable Garden Series
After all the long hours of hard work from the previous two months, early May is a magical time when you start to see all your hard work starting to pay off. All of your plants should be well on their way to showing the promise of future crops, but the work isn’t over just because everything has started to grow. Several things must be done to insure you plants overall health to maximize your crop’s potential, so regular inspections on a daily basis is always a good idea when it comes to your garden’s general maintenance. The most common problem with vegetable gardens will be dry conditions, weeds or insects. Living in the country as I do also causes other problems such as deer or rabbits damaging my plants at their early stages when the plants are young and tender. I like to check on my fields at least twice a day, (morning and evening), for plant damages due to insects or herbivores such as rabbits or deer, in order to catch these problems at their earliest stage, and take what ever measures are necessary to eliminate the problem. Once you get into a daily routine of checking your garden, it actually becomes an enjoyable part of your day that you will look forward to with each passing day!
Plant Care & Watering … Read the rest of this entry »
How To Grow A Garden
Spring in the south seems to unfold between late February and Mid-March, and as the flowers and trees start to bud out and bloom, its a constant reminder that time “Marches” on and it will soon be time to plant again. Being prepared for the event is always a good idea, because the size area you intend to plant can be very daunting or even tiresome if you try to do everything at once. Many will find the entire task too overwhelming and decide against even starting a garden, but for those people like myself, the challenge is well worth the rewards. In this “How to Grow a Garden” series, I hope to enlighten as well as educate the novice gardener to the point of confidence that the task of “Growing a Vegetable Garden” becomes a joy filled hobby instead of a relentless task.
Whether you are planning a small box garden, a backyard garden, or planting a field, it really doesn’t matter. The techniques used are basically the same when it comes to growing vegetables. The only thing that really changes is the equipment you use and the volume you hope to produce. This simple monthly guide I have decided to produce this year is designed with the novice gardener in mind, although it will be filled with helpful tips that even the more experienced gardeners will grow to appreciate. My garden will be grown with organic fertilizer (rabbit manure compost) this year, with pictures and a step by step guide to help anyone reproduce their garden with the same incredible results. Many of you may not be able to use the same fertilizer because I raise rabbits and make my own compost, but many commercial fertilizers will work just as well. I’m getting back to basics with my project and hope to have a large number of people that will choose to do the same. Read the rest of this entry »
