Outdoor Gardening

Learn how gardening can improve mental health by reducing stress, enhancing self-esteem & fostering growth. Get tips on starting your own green oasis.

Tilling is often done as a means to aerate or introduce air into the soil. Its short-term benefits are immediate increase soil fertility; however, long-term, tilling comes with the risk of erosion. Tilling lifts and loosens the soil, while could lead to the gradual diminishment of the garden.

Plastic bottles can be utilized as planters, cloches, vertical hanging arrangements, birdfeeders, seedling trays, and so many other gardening projects. Recycling them for these garden projects can save you money while reducing landfills but not at the cost of beauty and functionality

The main difference between potting soil, topsoil, and garden soil is that it’s been specifically formulated for use in containers. Topsoil is usually processed to become finer to make it perfect for raised beds and seeds. Finally, garden soil is topsoil that has been enriched to make it optimal for plant growth.

While annuals germinate, bloom, set seed, and wither within a span of one year (typically, from spring to fall), perennials germinate and grow in one year and blooms every spring (usually for three years or longer). Annuals usually bloom for a longer period of time as compared to perennials.

Unlike real grass that can puddle due to clay, a sub-base layer of varying sized aggregate is laid during the installation of artificial grass. This provides excellent drainage taking all water that the elements can throw at it and allowing it to pass through the grass and drain below the aggregate. This keeps the surface of the grass dry and puddle-free.

Turning any patch of your garden into a luscious healthy vegetable plot reaps many benefits like saving you money, provides a healthy eating source, gives you exercise by digging, helps reduce stress, and improves body function.

Bamboo is a highly aggressive, invasive exotic plant species. It owes its reputation to the fact that it is the fastest-growing class of grass on earth. Bamboo can choke natural vegetation in a brief period, effectively crowding out native flora. It is imperative to realize that it is challenging to get rid of bamboo once it has taken root.

Bamboo is regarded as an aggressive, invasive species because it is the fastest-growing grass species on earth. Bamboo can overrun natural vegetation quickly and is very difficult to get rid of once it has taken root. You can use it for support structures for climbing plants, a food source, and even scaffolding.

Using organic materials like well-decomposed compost, compost tea, elemental garden sulfur, mulch, coffee grounds, and sphagnum peat moss in your garden can help lower the pH of the soil naturally.