Gardening Articles

Using raised beds in your garden will not only help you grow your plants easier but they will also keep the garden tidier. In bed system garden the areas that are planted are divided into semi-permanent or fixed beds. Here you will find information on how to make a fixed raised bed and also how to make a path between beds.

Creeping plants always look good in hanging baskets, so why not build some of your own using cheap materials and obtaining nice hanging boxes for displaying your plants. For one hanging box you will need 14 pieces of 20x20 mm timber, 25 cm long, a 25 cm square of plywood board, 2 lengths of strong, plastic-coated wire of at least 30 cm long, 4 chains for hanging and some non-toxic paint.

The simplest and the most used design in an herb garden is the form of a cartwheel. You can build your own herb wheel very easy. You will need the following materials to build the herb wheel: string, canes, sand, dry concrete mix, bricks, mortar and topsoil to fill the wheel for planting your herbs and of course the herbs. Remember that this type of design looks more impressive when is viewed from above, so make sure you find a place for it so it may be overlooked from an upper window or a slope. Also try to use plants that have the same growing rhythm or else some will grow faster and spoil the design.

If you do not have enough space in your garden to make a pond you can still have a small water feature, like a pebble fountain. There is always space for a small water feature like this in any garden and is a project that can be done in weekend afternoon.

Chose the place where you want the pebble fountain to be and mark out the diameter of the reservoir. Dig a hole slightly wider and deeper than the reservoir dimensions and place a shallow layer of sand at the bottom of the hole, making sure that the reservoir rim is slightly below the level of the surrounding soil so that the water drains naturally into it.