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Urban Gardening Concept

by CoolGarden January 24, 2016 No Comments

Urban Gardening Concept – Living in an urban environment or having just a patio or deck doesn’t mean you can’t be a gardener. Container gardens can give you the same sense of accomplishment and your vine ripe tomatoes will taste just as good as those from a backyard plot. Urban gardening requires planning and organization in a way backyard gardening does not. But that is part of the fun.

First, watch the space where your containers will go over several months. How much sun does the area get? Which way does the sun move?

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Importance Of Garden Décor

by CoolGarden January 2, 2016 2 Comments

Importance Of Garden Décor – Garden décor offers peace of mind and a superb escape from mundane lifestyle. It is also a rightful means for individuals to be in unison with nature, beautifying their surroundings in which they live and work. Tools used as décors for lawn area, assert positive feeling in the mind. Here are the few thoughtful reasons in support of décors:

1. Adds uniqueness. Embellishing your lawn with décors will give you natural feel, generates a kind of spiritual sense, and satiates a truly earthy appeal. With use of lawn decoration items, garden owners can show off their creativity and add uniqueness in the verdant spaces. These objects of garden decoration also enhance overall beauty.

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Training Fruit Trees

by CoolGarden December 24, 2015 No Comments

Training fruit trees – Cordons are single stemmed trees, fruiting spurs grow directly from the main stem – although double or even triple cordons can be created. Apple and pear cordons are generally planted at an angle of 45° and trained to a height of 1.8 m (6 ft). This produces a stem 2.4 m (8 ft) long. All cordons should be pruned in the summer; little winter pruning is necessary.

Pruning is simple. Cut back all laterals (side branches) to three buds beyond the basal cluster (the cluster of leaves nearest the main stem). Tie in the leader but do not prune it until it has reached 1.8 m in height. Mature cordons may need some of the fruiting spurs thinned in the course of time.

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Potting Table Ideas

by CoolGarden December 12, 2015 No Comments

Potting Table Ideas – If you have been shopping for a potting table, you have recognized that they aren’t all alike. Some follow a basic design, while others incorporate extra features for additional storage and better organization. If your gardening supplies have become a mess, maybe these features can help you.

Nearly every potting table offers some shelves in addition to the work space. Generally, the bottom shelf will be wide and sturdy. This shelf is the best place to store heavier and larger items – things like bags of mulch and potting soil, planters and buckets, watering cans. Some potting tables have more than one wide shelf. If you are concerned that some tall items might not fit in a multi-shelf unit, measure the items you plan to store.

Gardening basics gardening, hanging baskets, winter

Winter Hanging Baskets

by CoolGarden December 9, 2015 1 Comment

Winter Hanging Baskets – The plants that will more readily survive the lower temperatures that winter brings. Of course, the first plants that come to mind are evergreens. Little conifers and box look quite nice as an architectural addition to winter hanging baskets and will last all year round. But just because we’re moving into winter that doesn’t mean we have to compromise on the color in our baskets, although of course our choices will be a little more limited.

There are plenty of plants that will go right through the winter and keep our houses looking beautiful, many of them flowering. Here’s a few ideas for flowering winter plants to keep your hanging baskets looking as lovely as they do in the summer.

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Give Your Plants The Humidity They Need

by CoolGarden December 6, 2015 No Comments

Give Your Plants The Humidity They Need – Cold air requires only a small amount of water vapor before it becomes saturated, and so on an average winter day the air is moist. When you turn on a radiator to warm up this cold air, its capacity to hold water vapor is greatly increased. As the room becomes comfortable the amount of water vapor in the air is no longer enough to keep it moist. The air becomes ‘dry’; in technical terms the relative humidity has fallen.

Central heating in the depths of winter can produce air with the relative humidity of the Sahara desert.

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