Sunday, September 30, 2012
Rabbits are organic lawn mowers.
Ever thought of owning a rabbit. Think of the benefits, no more mowing the lawn. A couple of bunnies would keep your lawn manageable with out the need to mow. Contact via email for more info.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Organic veg boxs.
I have just started to buy boxs of eoc veg and its great.I don't need to lug veg around in my shopping bag.I get interesting veg I would'nt normally buy.I can give my daughters new bunnies great veg and I will bge getting my 4th box for free.It'sd really easy if you want to try getting organic veg or veg and fruit boxs delivered try the link below.
able ableandcole.co.uk
able ableandcole.co.uk
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Grow Veg.
Mother Nature – The Head Gardener!!
Author: Emma H
How many times have you found yourself toiling away in the vegetable plot, thinking there must be an easier way to do this?
Whilst reaping the rewards of your efforts and spending the day outside is a wonderful way to live your life, it doesn’t really suit the average suburbanite who also has to fit in a full time job to pay all those bills. No matter how productive it is growing your own food is still pretty damn hard work. Anyone who has time to do it seriously is usually retired or a professional
Imagine if there was a way of growing your own fresh veg that was so easy that even the busiest people could grow a significant portion of their families fresh produce. In fact there is such a way - it’s called Ecological gardening and it’s the equivalent of the ultimate modern day convenience veggie plot!!
Like most vegetable gardeners, I’ve spent hours outside, weeding, planting, watering, and digging. All you need is to make a few changes in the garden, in a sense creating an eco system and it won’t be long before there are significant changes occurring for the better in that vegetable plot.
So what are these changes, well for a start, actually squeeze far more plants into a certain area, this can help cut down on weeds for a start. Believe it of not but the second change is to never dig the soil and thirdly, upgrade your compost system. Once these three simple strategies are in place you’ll soon notice the garden taking on a life of it’s own. Weeds will virtually stop growing and plants will actually live longer, therefore increasing productivity. You’ll find the garden enduring longer periods without water and actually producing far more.
So why does this happen – basically it’s because you’re now allowing the garden to behave in it’s natural state. You’re no longer the Head Gardener – Nature has taken over and what’s even better – Mother Nature actually works for free!!!
So embrace this new ultimate employee, she works tirelessly 24/7 and follows very simple laws. By creating an ecological garden you are in fact creating a living, breathing ecosystem. Nature is actually working with you and not against you and she has great stamina!!
One of the important factors here is to fill spaces that you wouldn’t normally fill, these spaces are breeding grounds for new life so make it productive not weedy. If something else is there, the weeds won’t grow!!
Usually vegetable gardens are very regimented, everything is lined up in neat rows with a giant space between each type of vegetable, and what do we usually find growing in these spaces – yes, those lovely weeds. Therefore the solution is to fill these spaces with productive seeds so that weeds don’t have room to grow. The result should be a very densely populated area that can produce a large amount of the things you want, i.e. vegetables. This denseness also protects your plants so that they can last much longer. You find bolting occurs far less and sensitive plants are more protected. You’ll also find there’s far less to do. You’ll soon become more of an observer and note the garden continuously changing, just as it would in nature. Certainly there will be times you may have to rein the control back, to stop a too successful plant from taking over but with a little faith in Natures law you’ll soon find yourself stepping back, enjoying life as the observer, while nature does her job and you reap the benefits.
I want to know more!
Whilst reaping the rewards of your efforts and spending the day outside is a wonderful way to live your life, it doesn’t really suit the average suburbanite who also has to fit in a full time job to pay all those bills. No matter how productive it is growing your own food is still pretty damn hard work. Anyone who has time to do it seriously is usually retired or a professional
Imagine if there was a way of growing your own fresh veg that was so easy that even the busiest people could grow a significant portion of their families fresh produce. In fact there is such a way - it’s called Ecological gardening and it’s the equivalent of the ultimate modern day convenience veggie plot!!
Like most vegetable gardeners, I’ve spent hours outside, weeding, planting, watering, and digging. All you need is to make a few changes in the garden, in a sense creating an eco system and it won’t be long before there are significant changes occurring for the better in that vegetable plot.
So what are these changes, well for a start, actually squeeze far more plants into a certain area, this can help cut down on weeds for a start. Believe it of not but the second change is to never dig the soil and thirdly, upgrade your compost system. Once these three simple strategies are in place you’ll soon notice the garden taking on a life of it’s own. Weeds will virtually stop growing and plants will actually live longer, therefore increasing productivity. You’ll find the garden enduring longer periods without water and actually producing far more.
So why does this happen – basically it’s because you’re now allowing the garden to behave in it’s natural state. You’re no longer the Head Gardener – Nature has taken over and what’s even better – Mother Nature actually works for free!!!
So embrace this new ultimate employee, she works tirelessly 24/7 and follows very simple laws. By creating an ecological garden you are in fact creating a living, breathing ecosystem. Nature is actually working with you and not against you and she has great stamina!!
One of the important factors here is to fill spaces that you wouldn’t normally fill, these spaces are breeding grounds for new life so make it productive not weedy. If something else is there, the weeds won’t grow!!
Usually vegetable gardens are very regimented, everything is lined up in neat rows with a giant space between each type of vegetable, and what do we usually find growing in these spaces – yes, those lovely weeds. Therefore the solution is to fill these spaces with productive seeds so that weeds don’t have room to grow. The result should be a very densely populated area that can produce a large amount of the things you want, i.e. vegetables. This denseness also protects your plants so that they can last much longer. You find bolting occurs far less and sensitive plants are more protected. You’ll also find there’s far less to do. You’ll soon become more of an observer and note the garden continuously changing, just as it would in nature. Certainly there will be times you may have to rein the control back, to stop a too successful plant from taking over but with a little faith in Natures law you’ll soon find yourself stepping back, enjoying life as the observer, while nature does her job and you reap the benefits.
I want to know more!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Harvesting.
I have recently just started to finish of all the veg in my garden.I have grown a lot of runner beans,onions,potatoes,tomatoes,lettice and pumpkins.It has been a great experience which I will be continuing next year.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Grow Potatoes.
Growing potatoes is easy. There are so many choices to grow.All you have to do is plant seed potatoes,easy simple.
Growing your veg.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
The Weather is perfect for vegetable growing.
The weather is perfect for veggie growing.So get up of the coach and dig out your gardening gloves.Potatoes are easy to grow,all you have to do is buy the potato seeds(which are small potatoes with a lot of eyes for growing).
Plant them and wait for them to grow, prepare your soil with mulch and organic fertilizer.
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Saturday, April 3, 2010
Dealing with weeds.
Beating The Weeds In Your Garden
Author: Jeffrey Seymour
What about black plastic, or the weed barrier fabric sold at garden centers? I don't like either and I'll tell you why. For one, neither one of them ever go away, and the make up of your garden is forever altered until you physically remove them, which is a real pain in the butt.
Weed control facts? Plastic is no good for the soil because soil needs to breathe. Plastic blocks the transfer of water and oxygen, and eventually your soil will suffer, as will your garden. It's all right to use plastic in a vegetable garden as long as you remove it at the end of the season and give the soil a chance to breathe.
Weed barrier fabrics allow the soil to breathe, but what happens is that when you mulch over top of the fabric, which you should because the fabric is ugly, the mulch decomposes and becomes topsoil. Weeds love topsoil, and they will grow like crazy in it. Only problem is, they are growing on top of the fabric, and you are stuck with a ton of problems, like a weedy garden, and a major job of trying to remove the fabric that is now firmly anchored in place because the weeds have rooted through it.
Weed fabric is also porous enough that if an area becomes exposed to the sunlight, enough light will peek through and weeds below the fabric will grow, pushing their way through the fabric. I don't like the stuff. I've removed miles of it from landscapes for other people because it did not work as they had expected.
Weed control facts? Controlling weeds with chemicals is fairly easy, and very effective if done properly. I know that many people don't approve of chemical weed controls, but millions of people use them, so I might as well tell you how to get the most effect using them.
There are two types of chemical weed controls, post-emergent, and pre-emergent. In a nutshell, a post-emergent herbicide kills weeds that are actively growing. A pre-emergent prevents weed seeds from germinating. Of the post- emergent herbicides there are both selective and non-selective herbicides. A selective herbicide is like the herbicides that are in weed-and-feed type lawn fertilizers. The herbicide will kill broad leaf weeds in your lawn, but it doesn't harm the grass.
One of the most popular non-selective herbicides is Round-up(r), it pretty much kills any plant it touches. Rule number one. Read the labels and follow the safety precautions!!! Round-up(r) is very effective if used properly, but first you must understand how it works.
Round-up(r) must be sprayed on the foliage of the plant, where it is absorbed, then translocated to the root system where it then kills the plant. It takes about 72 hours for the translocation process to completely take place, so you don't want to disturb the plant at all for at least 72 hours after it has been sprayed.
After 72 hours you can dig, chop, rototill, and pretty much do as you please because the herbicide has been translocated throughout the plant. The manufacture claims that Round-up(r) does not have any residual effect, which means that you can safely plant in an area where Round-up(r) has been used. However, I would not use it in a vegetable garden without researching further.
No residual effect also means that Round-up(r) has no effect whatsoever on weed seeds, so there is absolutely no benefit to spraying the soil. Only spray the foliage of the weeds you want to kill. Be careful of over spray drifting to your desirable plants. To prevent spray drift I adjust the nozzle of my sprayer so that the spray droplets are larger and heavier, and less likely to be carried by the wind. I also keep the pressure in the tank lower by only pumping the tank a minimum number of strokes. Just enough to deliver the spray.
Buy a sprayer that you can use as a dedicated sprayer for Round-up(r) only. Never use a sprayer that you have used for herbicides for any other purpose. Once you have sprayed the weeds, waited 72 hours and then removed them, you can go ahead and plant. Mulching is recommended as described above. To keep weed seeds from germinating you can apply a pre-emergent herbicide.
Depending on the brand, some of them are applied over top of the mulch, and some are applied to the soil before the mulch is applied. A pre-emergent herbicide creates a vapor barrier at the soil level that stops weed seed germination, and can be very effective at keeping your gardens weed free. They usually only last about 5 or 6 months and need to be re-applied.
Visit a full service garden center and seek the advice of a qualified professional to select the pre-emergent herbicide that will best meet your needs. Never use a pre-emergent herbicide in your vegetable garden, and be careful around areas where you intend to sow grass seed. If you spill a little in an area where you intend to plant grass, the grass will not grow. They really do work.
Information on planting a lawn can be found at the Lawn Tips site.
Weed control facts? Plastic is no good for the soil because soil needs to breathe. Plastic blocks the transfer of water and oxygen, and eventually your soil will suffer, as will your garden. It's all right to use plastic in a vegetable garden as long as you remove it at the end of the season and give the soil a chance to breathe.
Weed barrier fabrics allow the soil to breathe, but what happens is that when you mulch over top of the fabric, which you should because the fabric is ugly, the mulch decomposes and becomes topsoil. Weeds love topsoil, and they will grow like crazy in it. Only problem is, they are growing on top of the fabric, and you are stuck with a ton of problems, like a weedy garden, and a major job of trying to remove the fabric that is now firmly anchored in place because the weeds have rooted through it.
Weed fabric is also porous enough that if an area becomes exposed to the sunlight, enough light will peek through and weeds below the fabric will grow, pushing their way through the fabric. I don't like the stuff. I've removed miles of it from landscapes for other people because it did not work as they had expected.
Weed control facts? Controlling weeds with chemicals is fairly easy, and very effective if done properly. I know that many people don't approve of chemical weed controls, but millions of people use them, so I might as well tell you how to get the most effect using them.
There are two types of chemical weed controls, post-emergent, and pre-emergent. In a nutshell, a post-emergent herbicide kills weeds that are actively growing. A pre-emergent prevents weed seeds from germinating. Of the post- emergent herbicides there are both selective and non-selective herbicides. A selective herbicide is like the herbicides that are in weed-and-feed type lawn fertilizers. The herbicide will kill broad leaf weeds in your lawn, but it doesn't harm the grass.
One of the most popular non-selective herbicides is Round-up(r), it pretty much kills any plant it touches. Rule number one. Read the labels and follow the safety precautions!!! Round-up(r) is very effective if used properly, but first you must understand how it works.
Round-up(r) must be sprayed on the foliage of the plant, where it is absorbed, then translocated to the root system where it then kills the plant. It takes about 72 hours for the translocation process to completely take place, so you don't want to disturb the plant at all for at least 72 hours after it has been sprayed.
After 72 hours you can dig, chop, rototill, and pretty much do as you please because the herbicide has been translocated throughout the plant. The manufacture claims that Round-up(r) does not have any residual effect, which means that you can safely plant in an area where Round-up(r) has been used. However, I would not use it in a vegetable garden without researching further.
No residual effect also means that Round-up(r) has no effect whatsoever on weed seeds, so there is absolutely no benefit to spraying the soil. Only spray the foliage of the weeds you want to kill. Be careful of over spray drifting to your desirable plants. To prevent spray drift I adjust the nozzle of my sprayer so that the spray droplets are larger and heavier, and less likely to be carried by the wind. I also keep the pressure in the tank lower by only pumping the tank a minimum number of strokes. Just enough to deliver the spray.
Buy a sprayer that you can use as a dedicated sprayer for Round-up(r) only. Never use a sprayer that you have used for herbicides for any other purpose. Once you have sprayed the weeds, waited 72 hours and then removed them, you can go ahead and plant. Mulching is recommended as described above. To keep weed seeds from germinating you can apply a pre-emergent herbicide.
Depending on the brand, some of them are applied over top of the mulch, and some are applied to the soil before the mulch is applied. A pre-emergent herbicide creates a vapor barrier at the soil level that stops weed seed germination, and can be very effective at keeping your gardens weed free. They usually only last about 5 or 6 months and need to be re-applied.
Visit a full service garden center and seek the advice of a qualified professional to select the pre-emergent herbicide that will best meet your needs. Never use a pre-emergent herbicide in your vegetable garden, and be careful around areas where you intend to sow grass seed. If you spill a little in an area where you intend to plant grass, the grass will not grow. They really do work.
Information on planting a lawn can be found at the Lawn Tips site.
Article Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_832052_27.html
Saturday, March 20, 2010
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
How easy is it to grow your own vegetables.
Go Green, grow vegetables
Author: Blake Cole
Growing vegetables really doesn't need some sort of a rocket science to suceed in it. The will to do it is a must, knowing that it contributes to wards your own health and well being and also that of the people, you care the most.The truth is that it is possible to simply study adequate being growing useful crops very quickly, and each session spent inside your garden teaches you even much more. You'll understand much that may be exceptional to your own circumstances, along the lines of nearby soil disorders, your unique aspect in relation towards the sun, and oddities that relate to your community microclimate. You may understand most of this by getting out and giving it a go.
The taste of home grown fruit and vegetables is vastly superior to that from the commercially grown produce. Have you heard families complain that tomatoes no longer have any taste? They will have when you grow your - you may in no way taste greater. The lack of style while using commercial crop is not all of the fault for this growers, as they're under pressure to make a crop, of uniform size and colour, on the schedule of the wholesale current market, and ultimately the supermarket. You set your schedule.
The freshness of your own crop may be a massive plus. Vegetables I have bought from the supermarket, and stored inside the refrigerator, have on track to become inedible following a few days. I have had residence grown make still fresh inside the refrigerator following 2 weeks!
Typically, your residence garden will generate a generous yield, and can readily assistance pay for the cost of growing them. It is possible to successfully end up getting no cost veggies. Summer, in particular, is usually a time of abundance, even glut, as family and friends leave your area with perhaps much more produce than they had expected to determine. A tip - when giving away fresh produce, attempt to limit your generosity - its much better to give a small amount to a lot of instead of to give on the few more than they will in reality use.
On the list of turn-offs to attempting something you have not executed prior to may be the intimidating flood of details (and misinformation) you may receive.
If you are browsing among the major bookstores, you may find hundreds of books within the topic - which do you purchase? To begin with, look for the uncomplicated, standard data. Usually do not bother with those full of jargon - you might learn the technical terms as you go.
You can hear folklore from the family, like "Uncle Henry often place ... (you name it) ... on his ... (name it again)". Folklore is a part of our heritage, but there is no guarantee of its usefulness.
You'll listen to from the office genius, who has executed nothing, but even now understands all the answers - nod wisely, and then ignore him.
Plants evolved millions of years in advance of humans, and they truly need to grow. It has been said that in a lot of cases plants grow despite what we do to help them. When you supply the basics, and these are reasonable nutrition and frequent watering, Mother Nature does the rest - allow her work for you.
Article Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_1375558_27.html
About the Author: Tom Mandl is not your ordinary vegetable grower. Find out more about how he's doing it. Just go to http://veggiepup.com
http://
Author: Blake Cole
Growing vegetables really doesn't need some sort of a rocket science to suceed in it. The will to do it is a must, knowing that it contributes to wards your own health and well being and also that of the people, you care the most.The truth is that it is possible to simply study adequate being growing useful crops very quickly, and each session spent inside your garden teaches you even much more. You'll understand much that may be exceptional to your own circumstances, along the lines of nearby soil disorders, your unique aspect in relation towards the sun, and oddities that relate to your community microclimate. You may understand most of this by getting out and giving it a go.
The taste of home grown fruit and vegetables is vastly superior to that from the commercially grown produce. Have you heard families complain that tomatoes no longer have any taste? They will have when you grow your - you may in no way taste greater. The lack of style while using commercial crop is not all of the fault for this growers, as they're under pressure to make a crop, of uniform size and colour, on the schedule of the wholesale current market, and ultimately the supermarket. You set your schedule.
The freshness of your own crop may be a massive plus. Vegetables I have bought from the supermarket, and stored inside the refrigerator, have on track to become inedible following a few days. I have had residence grown make still fresh inside the refrigerator following 2 weeks!
Typically, your residence garden will generate a generous yield, and can readily assistance pay for the cost of growing them. It is possible to successfully end up getting no cost veggies. Summer, in particular, is usually a time of abundance, even glut, as family and friends leave your area with perhaps much more produce than they had expected to determine. A tip - when giving away fresh produce, attempt to limit your generosity - its much better to give a small amount to a lot of instead of to give on the few more than they will in reality use.
On the list of turn-offs to attempting something you have not executed prior to may be the intimidating flood of details (and misinformation) you may receive.
If you are browsing among the major bookstores, you may find hundreds of books within the topic - which do you purchase? To begin with, look for the uncomplicated, standard data. Usually do not bother with those full of jargon - you might learn the technical terms as you go.
You can hear folklore from the family, like "Uncle Henry often place ... (you name it) ... on his ... (name it again)". Folklore is a part of our heritage, but there is no guarantee of its usefulness.
You'll listen to from the office genius, who has executed nothing, but even now understands all the answers - nod wisely, and then ignore him.
Plants evolved millions of years in advance of humans, and they truly need to grow. It has been said that in a lot of cases plants grow despite what we do to help them. When you supply the basics, and these are reasonable nutrition and frequent watering, Mother Nature does the rest - allow her work for you.
Article Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_1375558_27.html
About the Author: Tom Mandl is not your ordinary vegetable grower. Find out more about how he's doing it. Just go to http://veggiepup.com
http://
Grow your own veg.
Now is the time we should all be digging the garden and planting potatoes,onions etc in our gardens.Don't wait until the weathers good as it will be too late to grow you vegetables then.This weekend I'm going to dig the garden and put mulch on top of my beds to create a great basis for my veg this season.
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