Gardening Tips And Advices All Year Round
If your garden is besieged with snails, you’ve probably joked once or twice about making escargot. They’re a delicacy, right? But joking about eating snails is one thing. Actually doing it… that’s weird, right?
Miss Snail Pail, aka Colleen Flanigan, disagrees. “I
Make better use of your space by thinking in 3D. Height is an obvious area for development of a more intensely 3D garden but depth can be developed by planting blues at the back as they make distances recede. Root vegetables, roof gardens, living walls and other developments are pushing the boundaries (Oh yes pinching some garden from someone’s boundary is a new dimension).
Last week, I shared a some relatively simple how-to instructions for making NES Stepping Stones to give your garden or outdoor space that unique, geeky touch. This week, I’m amping up the how-to both in complexity and geek factor with instructions from Instructables.com member The Papier Boy on how to modify a garden gnome to create a Superhero Garden Gnome. (See video of Batman, Robin and Spider-Man “SuperGnomes” below.)
First, a brief introduction:
“Evil lurks in the shadows of our backyards. Rogue snails. Radioactive skunks. … That’s why every back yard needs a hero,” The Papier Boy writes. Read more…
Look above the trees in your garden and what do you see? This morning I saw a great sky with wisps of vapour trails and fine cloud. It cheered me up no end!
Normally I am looking down on the ground for work that needs doing, weeds to hoe, bugs to remove, damage clearance to be sorted. At best I am considering what crops to harvest, what flower is displaying a look that I had hoped for or how long can I put off the labouring jobs.
Today I got stuck in to pruning a Holly bush at 8.00am and filled two recycling bags of rubbish before the local authority came to convert it into compost.