Problems with Bird Seed in the Garden

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Feeding birds encourages them to stay within visual contact, but there are bird seed types that may affect your prized plants. Use caution when purchasing wild bird seed to avoid excess waste, allelopathic effects and unwanted pests.

In this article, Bonnie discusses the best way to place bird feeders in your garden so that they don’t have a negative effect on any nearby plants.

She covers:

Bird feeder problems
The best type of bird food to buy
A particular seed to avoid
The best way to place bird feeders

This article will help you to incorporate birds and bird feeders into your garden without harming your garden plants and flowers. Click on the Bird Feeder Problems: Sunflower Seed Toxins And Its Effect On Plant Grow link below to read the complete article.

Problems With Bird Seed in the Garden

Row Cover System : Dave’s Square Foot Garden

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In this article, Dave discusses how a check of his garden revealed a variety of pests like white cabbage moths and flea beetles were dining on his #plants. They were attacking both his in-ground and raised bed plants.

So Dave decided to protect his garden with row covers. He explains how he set the covers up. Nice article!

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Row Cover System : Dave’s Square Foot Garden

Everything You Need to Know About Bokashi Composting

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Bokashi is Japanese for “fermented organic matter.” Although it’s often referred to as a composting method, it’s really an anaerobic fermentation process.I’ve heard this described as pickling your organic waste.

When you use the Bokashi Method you layer organic scraps (fruits, veggies, meat, dairy) with a Bokashi mixin a bucket. The Bokashi mix is made of wheat germ or sawdust, molasses and starter microorganisms You can either make the Bokashi mix or buy it.

After layering, you put an air-tight lid on the bucket and let it ferment. After 10 days or so you can use the results of the Bokashi fermentation in your compost pile or you can mix it into your garden soil.

It’s easy, can be done on a small or large-scale and is virtually odor-free. In this article, The Compost Guy explains everything you need to know to start using the Bokashi Method. He explains:

What Bokashi Is
Advantages
Disadvantages
How to Get Started
A video that explains how to make your own Bokashi mix
A bunch of helpful resource links

This is an example of a complete Bokashi Composting Kit that includes a 5 Gallon bucket, air-tight lid, bottom drain, and everything you need for fermentation.

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Everything You Need to Know About Bokashi Composting

40 Genius Space-Savvy Small Garden Ideas and Solutions

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If you have a small garden, a garden with poor soil, a patio, balcony or rooftop – YOU CAN GARDEN! There are so many different ways to incorporate a garden into a small space.

This article discusses 40 different small garden ideas. If you see an idea you like, just click the link under the picture. You’ll find more information for that idea.

There are:

Furniture Gardens
Upside Down Gardens
Vertical Gardens
Vertical Pallet Gardens
Container Gardens
Tiered Gardens
And MORE!!!

Click on the 40 Genius Space-Savvy Small Garden Ideas and Solutions link below to see all 40 small space garden ideas.

40 Genius Space-Savvy Small Garden Ideas and Solutions

Top Tips for Great Fall Gardens

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Vicki shares some great tips to help you to have a productive garden this fall. Gardening is not just for the spring and summer. She discusses the following:

Favored crops for the Fall
Hardy Fall Varieties – What Veggies You Should Grow
Timing
Sowing and Growing
Stretching the Season (Some GREAT ideas here!)

Be sure to check out the Excellent seed sources and suppliers’ list on the last page of the article.

By the way, to navigate through this article go to the bottom of the page. You’ll see “Previous|1|2|3|4|5|6|Next.” Click on any page number or Previous or Next.

Click on the Top Tips for Great Fall Gardens link below to see all of Vicki’s gardening tips.

Top Tips for Great Fall Gardens

How to Dry Your Garden Herbs

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It’s never too early to think about how you’re going to dry those herbs you plan to grow this summer. In this article, Dan of the LiveDan330 website shares various ways to dry herbs.

Hanging herbs to dry (Which herbs work best for this method)
Details on how to hang dry herbs
Other options for drying out herbs.

This is an informative article with some very helpful information. Click on the How to Dry Your Herbs link to read more.

How to Dry Your Garden Herbs

Prepping for Fall Planting and Gardening

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Carole starts prepping her garden and planting in July for the plants she wants to see in the Fall. In this article she explains how she prepared a raided bed garden for a little crop of miniature pumpkins.

She uses a Hoss Wheel Hoe to till the soil. She also shows how she set up a wire frame using cow panels. This will allow the pumpkin vines to grow up and out.

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Prepping for Fall Planting and Gardening

Our New Melon Garden – Stage One: Tilling and Planting

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After her husband got a new tractor with a rototiller and front bucket loader, they decided to put in a melon and squash garden. I have tractor envy. This is a wonderful way to till and prepare garden soil.

Lisa explains how they tilled, added compost, completed the fencing, and added predator lights. She then shares how she hand-planted the garden, watered, and saw the garden sprout and grow. She reveals the 6 different melon varieties, 5 squash varieties, and two cucumber varieties she planted. There are some excellent photographs.

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Our New Melon Garden – Stage One: Tilling and Planting

15 Fruits And Veggies You Can Secretly Grow Inside Your Home

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This is an interesting article that details 15 fruits and veggies you can grow indoors. There are links to tutorials that explain how to grow each new plant indoors. Here’s just one example:

You know the bushy roots that sometimes grow out of the bulb on scallion? Just cut off about 1” of the scallion so you have the bushy roots and 1” on the stem. Put the cutting in glasses containing water. Put the glasses in a window and change the water every day. By 5 or 6 days you should have new, green scallions!

Click on the 15 Fruits And Veggies You Can Secretly Grow Inside Your Home link below to see how to grow all 15 fruits and veggies indoors.

15 Fruits And Veggies You Can Secretly Grow Inside Your Home

How To Build a Raised Planter Bed for Under $50 For Your Next Garden Project DIY

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Check out this step-by-step tutorial on making a raised bed planter. This design uses 4 raised legs that are buried in holes in the soil. This gives the planter additional stability.

There are also photographs of other raised bed gardens. I liked the square foot gardening raised planter with the wooden chicken wire fencing. There are time-lapsed photographs showing the growth of plants in a square foot garden.

Finally, there are some raised bed planters on wheels that are genius! If you used casters with wheel locks it would be the ideal planter. Click on the How To Build a Raised Planter Bed for Under $50 For Your Next Garden Project DIY link below to see all of these great planter ideas.

How To Build a Raised Planter Bed for Under $50 For Your Next Garden Project DIY

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