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Posted by admin to flower, moving, reflections on 2007-11-27, 23:44:00
"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses." ~Hanna Rion
The Last post before the Computer gets unplugged. I will not be able to procrastinate and go on the internet for a while untill BT connects my broadband up.
I love these flowers from Harlow Carr.I hope the new garden will be full of healthy plants, singing birds, still waters, fruit tree's, and vegetables.
I want it to restore my senses and all the people who visit it, or see it vicariously on Snappys Gardens Blog. My winter project will be to reclaim the garden from the Brambles. Then to fill it with a myriad of plants, shrubs, and flowers.
I will miss my daily posting, as it is a cultivated habit now.I will have a weeks worth of New Garden news. Ideas for lots more blog posts, and questions to pose.
See you all in a weeks time!
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Via Gardening Question of the Day (from the Old Farmer's Almanac))
Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-27, 20:00:00
Our lawn is being run over by ground ivy. How can we get rid of it? (
answer).
From The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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Via Gardening Question of the Day (from the Old Farmer's Almanac))
Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-27, 20:00:00
Our lawn is being run over by ground ivy. How can we get rid of it? (
answer).
From The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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Posted by admin to Texas, car, crappy stuff, girlgonegardening, idiots on 2007-11-27, 19:33:00
24*, 66% humidity, ESE3 mph wind, fair
My first (and hopefully only) car accident happened today. I've never had a speeding ticket, I've never had a parking ticket. I'm a safe driver. I had the right of way, its a long street with a few side streets going off of it. Well some guy came barreling out of this side street and right in front of my car. I didn't have time to stop. WHAM. The car hit
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Via Home and Family: Gardening Articles from EzineArticles.com)
Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-27, 16:37:28
When it comes to hydroponics and indoor gardening, having the appropriate lighting system will be a big key to the success or failure of your garden. Those who are new to hydroponics gardening and other forms of indoor gardening will want to learn how to garden in this manner successfully.
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Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-27, 16:15:48
When you think of water lilies and water hyacinths being grown in a garden, you may picture them in large pools or ponds. They grow just as well in containers, though.
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Posted by admin to moving, new house on 2007-11-27, 16:12:00
Today is moving day to the new house. The photo was taken from the upstairs bedroom window on Monday. The wild garden is below.I have been packing my things ready to go tomorrow to the new house.
The phone line and internet will be moving, but there will a week with no blog :(
Once I'm online I can write about what I have done to the secret garden, buried beneath fire weed and brambles that have knocked the fence over!
Hope to be blogging my progress through the winter in the new garden. For me after a year with no garden its like Christmas come early.
Snappys garden blog will be live from my own garden. I have spring bulbs galore, seeds, and the fifty plants in the flat that need moving.
See you all in a week or so when im back online!
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Posted by admin to Garden Tools on 2007-11-27, 14:59:32
If you've been potting up your plants on makeshift tables around the yard like I have for the past 4 years, then maybe we do have a use for a potting bench. They've always struck me as fanciful gardening extras that old ladies wielding Zimmer frames cling on to - not that there's anything wrong with old ladies OR Zimmer frames!
I've just always assumed that if you have your garden potting shed then a potting bench was a superfluous decoration. But the assumption fails, of course, if you don't have your own garden shed - and most gardeners residing in apartments and units won't.
So the next best thing is to perform all your potting duties in a location that is practical and accessible. Enter stage left - the potting bench!
Like most things you could easily go and buy one
(aff.) or, if you're not technically challenged, try making your own.
Mike McClure has designed a great DIY project for building your own potting bench. From the wood sizes, number of screws and bolts to even fitting the legs with plastic caps to avoid rot, this is one How-To that will easily become a How's-That!
The beauty of having a potting bench is that most of your everyday gardening tools and equipment can be kept in the one place. You no longer have to search around for the last place you used your secateurs or where to find some ties when staking your plants. For the OCD's (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) of us, this one tool could streamline our hobby to insurmountable enjoyment levels.
After struggling with different areas in my garden to pot my plants and seedlings, I'm looking forward with eager anticipation to the day when my garden shed will become operational (all that's missing now are the benches). So, if I knew that I would have to wait 4 years before being able to have an area to work from, I certainly would have made my own.
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Via Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas)
Posted by admin to Garden Tools on 2007-11-27, 14:59:32
If you've been potting up your plants on makeshift tables around the yard like I have for the past 4 years, then maybe we do have a use for a potting bench. They've always struck me as fanciful gardening extras that old ladies wielding Zimmer frames cling on to - not that there's anything wrong with old ladies OR Zimmer frames!
I've just always assumed that if you have your garden potting shed then a potting bench was a superfluous decoration. But the assumption fails, of course, if you don't have your own garden shed - and most gardeners residing in apartments and units won't.
So the next best thing is to perform all your potting duties in a location that is practical and accessible. Enter stage left - the potting bench!
Like most things you could easily go and buy one (aff.) or, if you're not technically challenged, try making your own.
Mike McClure has designed a great DIY project for building your own potting bench. From the wood sizes, number of screws and bolts to even fitting the legs with plastic caps to avoid rot, this is one How-To that will easily become a How's-That!
The beauty of having a potting bench is that most of your everyday gardening tools and equipment can be kept in the one place. You no longer have to search around for the last place you used your secateurs or where to find some ties when staking your plants. For the OCD's (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) of us, this one tool could streamline our hobby to insurmountable enjoyment levels.
After struggling with different areas in my garden to pot my plants and seedlings, I'm looking forward with eager anticipation to the day when my garden shed will become operational (all that's missing now are the benches). So, if I knew that I would have to wait 4 years before being able to have an area to work from, I certainly would have made my own.
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Via Home and Family: Gardening Articles from EzineArticles.com)
Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2007-11-27, 14:40:29
One of the best choices for a landscape bush in a mild winter, Mediterranean garden has to be Pittosporum tobira. It is often overlooked today by home owners and even by garden designers, because it grows slowly, taking some 4 to 5 years to reach a height of 3 meters or so, and perhaps some 3 years to form a closed screen.
