Gardening Articles

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.

For more vertical space for climbers, you can always use an obelisk that can also become an interesting and attractive feature in a border. There are many types of obelisks: metal obelisks that suit a modern garden, wood obelisks that will find its place in a formal garden and for a rustic garden you can choose a willow obelisk.

This article will show you how to make your own willow obelisk, it takes a little bit of skill but with a little patience and help from your plants to hide any mistakes that you might make, you will have your own made obelisk to add in your garden for more space for your climbers.

Many people start to grow more and more strawberries in containers or in growing bags in order to avoid the difficulties of growing them on the ground. This way are less chances of the fruits being tainted by the soil or eaten by slugs. You can build a table where to place your growing bag. Once the plants have finished cropping you can lift and move them (complete with the growing bag) and allow them to grow elsewhere in the garden until the following year. You can place on the table a new growing bag containing autumn-fruiting strawberries that are ready for producing a crop later in the year.