The online Gardening Guide

Ecological Gardening - Garden Design

2007-08-08T10:39:00.000-07:00

Use preferably autochthonous plants.The main advantage of autochthonous plants is that they require less maintenance, because they are more resillient to the lack of water, plagues, soil type, diceases, etc.Group the species in the garden according to their needs of waterProtect the plants from the windDo not cultivate the plants very close to each other

Ecological Gardening tips

2007-08-06T10:14:00.000-07:00

The incorrect cultivation methods produce negative effects. For example:The massive use of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides, has an impact in the environment and there is a risk both for people and animalsThe excessive usage of water during the watering, specially in areas where it's a scarce resourceThe usage of nitrates (highly soluble fertilizers) that get into water streams and pollute

Backyard Garden Design - Basic Tips & Ideas

2007-08-02T09:11:00.000-07:00

Garden Design is a broad topic and you can find many sites entirely dedicated to more advanced patio design concepts. This is just a beginner article that relates the basic concepts to consider when facing the home garden design of your own garden.The first advice, don't hurry. Pay attention to every detail and study all the options you have and what you want to achieve.Here, you will find

Garden Ponds, Aquatic Plants and Koi Fishes

2007-07-30T08:02:00.000-07:00

What is the best place for a pond ?It is advisabel to construct the pond as far as possible from the house. The ideal place would be one that has direct sunlight for just a few hours, being the rest covered by the trees. It must also be safe from winds. It's better if the water pond has no caduceus trees close, both for the auttum leaves that may fall into the pond as well as for the roots that

Organic Matter: Humus

2007-07-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

When we refer to organic matter in the soil, we mean the humus that the soil has. There is more organic matter in the soil that is not humus, like: rottening leaves, all kind of solid element that we can still recognize as such.But, What exactly is humus? Humus Definition: I'll give an example to understand it better: When a leaf falls to the ground, it's immediately atacked by fungy and bateria

Quick Tips to keep a flowerpot garden

2007-07-24T17:35:00.000-07:00

Plastic flowerpots are not suitable for gardens that are directly exposed to sunlight for too many hours, or during the hottest hours of the day. These get overheated and can damage the roots very badlyYou can install hanging pot racks and cultivate some species there, creating a tropical atmospherePlaces near windows are ideal to cultivate flowers and aromatic

Buying Healthy Plants

2007-07-20T18:28:00.000-07:00

Hope these quick tips help you next time you buy a plant:Examine carefully their leaves and stems just to be sure they don't already carry any disease or plague: spotted leaves, or with holes, bear in mind that it you take a plant that is carrying a dicease, it will probably spread it to the rest of your plants in the gardenNever take those plants with roots coming out of the pot drain holes,

Rosebush, Rosebushes and Roses Care Tips

2007-07-16T07:43:00.000-07:00

Rose care tipsMost of rosebushes we see are actually hybrids obtained from a wild rosebush in wich the wanted variety is graftedPlant the rosebushes in a zig-zag pattern to obtain a nice and compact effectGrowing roses tip: Roses need a very sunny place to grow, but sometimes it's too hot during a long period of time, so some shadow during the day would be

Building a Plant Terrarium

2007-07-15T10:03:00.000-07:00

Terrariums are enclosed areas in which we can simulate the conditions of a tropical environment, meaning, high humidity, warm and constant temperature. These variables allow to grow tropical plants that otherwise would be impossible in an outside garden. When building a terrarium, the following advices must be taken into consideration.In order to make a terrarium,

Vermicomposting: compost made by worms

2007-07-09T07:08:00.000-07:00

The vermicomposting technique consist in using the end-product of organic matter produced by some earthworms, to create an compost worm aerator for the soil, the vermicomposting does not produce heat and besides making compost we can use the worms we breed to aerate the Garden soil. When trying to reach a compost pile of high quality, we can even use these technique after we have an already made

Compost Recipe: the organic materials mixture

2007-07-07T12:59:00.000-07:00

When making a compost pile , the deposited remnants must always be mixed. There shouldn't be a layer separation between fresh materials or dry materials, in order for the compost pile to age properly, all the elements must be mixed. The compost pile doesn't have to be turned in a daily basis, but only when a considerable amount of organic material is added, for example grass clippings, autumn

Organic Compost - Organic Waste Recycling through composting

2007-07-06T09:42:00.000-07:00

Organic compost constitutes an organic waste treatment method that, besides recycling matter that otherwise woul pollute water streams and lands, can give our kitchen garden the lost organic matter through years of intensive activity, closing this way, nature's life cycle.Composting is an oxidative process that takes place in anaerobian conditions over a group of solid organic materials through

Compost - The "green" option for your garden

2007-07-05T09:37:00.000-07:00

Chemical Fertilizers intensive use is nowadays, one of the main sources of pollution in water streams and lands. Even though its efectiveness is very high, we shouldn't forget that nature can provide us with natural fertilizers coming from the life cycle itself. This is the case of compost, an ecological alternative for your garden or kitchen garden.Organic waste is also polluting, specially when

Fern Plants - from the woods to your garden

2007-07-04T11:22:00.000-07:00

Ferns like to grow in a enviroment, where the sunlight barely reaches directly the ground. Fern plants like often grow in woods where the sunlight is blocked by trees. The inner leaf structure of fern plants is totally adapted to these conditions.The vast majority of ferns grows in soils wich have high density of humus. There are also some ferns that have adapted to live on other plants, most

How to choose the right Watering Can for your garden

2007-07-03T16:43:00.000-07:00

This article intends to give useful tips to choose the right watering can, both for indoors and outdoors.The main variables to consider when buying a watering can are size, capacity and style.The rest of the features to bear in mind are style, product quality if we want it to last long and optional removable sprayhead.Plastic or metal watering can?When choosing a metal watering can you will

Indoor plant watering tips

2007-07-02T06:11:00.000-07:00

One of the main factors to keep indoor plants healthy it’s watering. Nevertheless, this is a difficult task of carrying out, since there are to consider multiple factors like, for example, if they are outside or interior plants. In order to avoid negative results on our plants, it’s advisable to know the amount water that these require, as well as the right moment and place to make this vital