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Getting Ready For Spring Gardening

Have you resolved to make your garden the envy of your neighborhood this year?  Are you determined to have a garden you don’t need to apologize for? If so, now is the time to start. The first step to having a beautiful garden is good planning. If you’ve kept a log or diagrams of your garden beds over the years to help track what was planted where, and notes about what worked and what didn’t now is the time to . . .

Perennials – The Backbone of Your Garden

Many gardeners cherish perennials because they flower, spread and multiply year after year and as such they can form the backbone of your flower garden. This in itself sets them aside from annuals as it eliminates the need to buy and plant new flowers every spring. Perennials are simple to grow, require little maintenance, and as a group are adapted to a wide variety of conditions, including a tolerance for sun and shade and moist or dry locations. In fact, many shade tolerant perennials are planted more for their eye-catching foliage than their flowers.

Butterfly Gardening

What is butterfly gardening? Butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will attract these colorful and dainty creatures to your garden while also enhancing your landscape. Bring smiles to the faces of your family and visitors with beautiful butterflies, but be sure to create a safe habitat for them. If you own outdoor pets, you may want to rethink your plans, because it would be a shame to attract these lovely insects to their death.

More About Butterly Gardening

When creating a butterfly garden, the possibilities of what to include in your butterfly garden design are endless. Below are just a few suggestions to help get you started. These ideas are designed to spark the creative process of your mind and get you started on your way to creating a lovely butterfly garden.

Before you even begin your butterfly garden, find out which species of butterflies are in your area. You can do this by taking an exploratory hike around your location with a butterfly identification book.

Preparing Your Garden for Winter

With the approaching onset of winter many gardeners believe it’s time to hang up the tools for the year and wait for the following spring before they have to work on their garden again.

his is far from the truth. It’s very important to ensure that your garden is going to be healthy and ready to produce a great crop next year.

The good news is that this winter preparedness can take less than a day to complete.

Garden with Your Kids and Reap the Benefits

If you can get your kids interested in gardening their enthusiasm and imagination will soon take over and with this will come questions, all types of questions, and thus learning. In this way your kids will develop a real appreciation for the environment and how humans can have both positive and negative impacts. The chances are that you’ll learn new stuff yourself and enjoy it because your children’s enthusiasm will carry over to you.

Keep in mind that you don’t need a large garden to get your kids involved. Why not have a container garden. You could even start with something as an old boot. if it’s the wrong time of the year to begin growing things, why not get some containers and let your kids decorate them?

Choosing Your Perfect Garden

Are you thinking about starting a garden? Maybe you’ve tried gardening before and ended up having a bad experience. Well don’t worry you’re not alone and hopefully this little guide will give you some ideas and help you in the initial planning stages so that your next experience will be a resounding result.

Once you’ve decided what type of garden you want to grow just make sure your not getting  into something you can’t handle. Remember, the ultimate aim of any gardening project should be enjoyment for you, your family and your friends.

First Gardening Experiences

Can you still remember your first gardening experience?

Was it a great experience or was it one full of disaster?

Let me tell you a secret. Mine was such a horrendous disaster that right then and there I decided that I would never touch a garden again. What’s worse, it wasn’t even my own garden, it was my mothers and I decided to help her out by weeding.

Well, I thought all the good plants were those that had flowers on them and that the weeds were everything else. Needless to say at that point in time