Little Giant Ladders: Just What Every Gardeners Need

Ladders can be very useful when it comes to gardening as well, besides their many uses for trades and homes. It can make you work quickly and safely in your garden height, provides a stable base from which to cut your hedge, clear gutters and paint walls, for landscaping, and to trim your tree, among others.

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With more than 300 people dying each year from ladder-related injuries, you must be careful in choosing a ladder for your garden or elsewhere. You must see to it that it can carry the amount of weight that will be applied to it. However, all your safety concerns will be easily remedied with use of Little Giant Ladder.  

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Choose Lawnmower That Best For Your Garden

The garden maintenance is essential if you are planning to have a beautiful garden around your home. Grass looks nice when its from 7 - 10 centimeters long, but after that it does begin to look untidy. There are many Lawnmowers in the market, I use a mountfield Lawnmower for my backyard. The Mountfield EL350 is one of the best electric mountfield mowers for small garden. It's very quiet, and easy to control in the work area.


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However, for bigger area, you should buy a mower by choose from mountfield petrol lawnmowers. They are efficient and suitable for large garden. Lawnmower need to have a machine which light weight for easy to use and move in various area such as slope or corner. Just take the time to find the right size and type for your garden. There are many other types of mountfield lawnmowers available today, just take a look.

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New Popular Style Of Gardening For Little Area

Not only the home owner want to have a beautiful garden for relaxing in the green atmosphere but people who have to live in apartment or condominium also want to have little corner with nature. Thus container gardening is becoming increasingly popular.


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With more and more stories on the news about various outbreaks of food poisoning from things like lettuce and green onions, many people are finding it important to start growing as much of their own produce as possible and they choose container gardening for solving this problem. Also,it's relaxing and enjoyable and you will get the satisfaction of knowing that you're growing your own plants and you know where they came from.

Some people think it is too difficult or too expensive so they are afraid to deal with container gardening. On the contrary, it is actually very easy and can be quite inexpensive. Here we explore the ease of setting up your first container garden, as well as the expenses involved. We're going to walk you through the process of setting up your first container garden and I pick basil for be my example. Let' enjoy with the easy 4 steps.

First step, purchase your container gardening supplies as the following. Three plastic pots with drainage holes in the bottom, preferably with trays underneath to catch soil and water drainage, about 5-6 inches in diameter, and 5-6 inches deep, one packet of basil seeds, one small bag of organic compost, one small bag of peat moss, one small garden trowel, one small watering can or clean spray bottle, and one very sunny windowsill (or a florescent or halogen grow light if no sunny window is available.)

Next, prepare the soil by mix together 1 part peat moss with 5 parts compost. (For every one trowel full of peat moss, put in 5 trowels full of compost.) Fill the three pots up to about ½ inch from the top with this mixture.

Thirdly, plant the seeds. Simply make a hole about 1 inch deep in the center of each pot with your finger. Put about three seeds into each hole and cover them with soil. Water lightly and place in the windowsill or under a grow light. Once the seeds sprout and reach about 2 inches in height, remove any extra sprouts so that you only have one plant in each pot.

Last step, water them regularly and keep them maintained in order to care for your plants. Check the soil daily for moisture. Whenever the soil feels dry, water lightly. To maintain the bushy growth, pinch off the tops of each stem every couple of weeks and remove any flower stalks as soon as you see them growing.

As you can see, it's really simple to start a container garden. In this example, we planted basil, but you can apply this method to practically any herb, small vegetable, or flower, with only minor modifications. Also, you may adapt my steps if you find more suitable choice.

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The Importance Of Chooks - Antic Chicken With The Organic Garden

Chooks or chickens have been domesticated for many centuries. They originate from the Malaysian rainforests so they love to free-range. Chooks are such easy animals to care for, can make great pets for children and are a valuable resource for the organic gardener. Moreover, keeping chooks is a must for organic gardeners. The gardening benefits are numerous; they can make fun pets and keep you entertained with their antics. You'll find tips in this article to make it easy to have and look after your feathered friends. Just need to check with your local council to find out their regulations. Some council won't allow you to keep any poultry, whereas others will-some even allow roosters.


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The first thing that you have to be concerned is the basic requirement for preparing before feed them such as dry and fox proof shelter, a safe place to lay eggs and hatch chicks if you have a rooster, a roosting perch off the ground (allow about 20cm per bird), layer pellets or crumble for chicks should make up the majority of their diet, and kitchen scraps are great for variety. Wheat, corn or other grains should be offered occasionally, but not form the majority of their diet. Don't forget that birds have no teeth; they swallow small pebbles or grit to grind down their food in their gizzard. They must have access to a supply of grit for this purpose so doesn't feed chocolate, coffee, avocado or rhubarb, as they are toxic to chooks.

At most, they must always have access to clean, fresh water with freedom from time to time. If you don't plan on letting your chooks free range in a garden area during the day, they will be much happier if you provide them with an outside run where they will be able to scratch at the ground and enjoy the sunlight.

For assuring that the gardener should have chooks, the following benefits can show you more or less. Normally, they supply you with beautiful, fresh eggs - daily and reduce your waste so your left over will never go in the bin again. They provide you with an excellent fertilizer base and dig over the soil instead you. Also, they reduce insect numbers that great for around your orchard.


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Besides, it's a great liquid fertilizer. Chook manure is a great base for a liquid fertilizer or to add to your compost heap. You never use it fresh though, as bird manure also contains their urine and will burn your crops. To make liquid manure, place it in a porous bag in a bucket and fill the bucket with water. After about three weeks or so you can use the water on and around your plants, diluted to look like weak tea. Also, you can make chook manure for compost. If you provide a litter of straw, hay or sawdust in your chook's living quarters they will turn it into great compost material for you. They will scratch it, add manure and turn it over. You can add layers of this organic matter to your compost heap or leave it to turn into a fine, dark substance.

Therefore, don't forget to consider about breeding chooks and you will see the valuable result soon. If you don't believe me, you may ask yourself in the future how come you miss to be interested in this animal.

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Seniors - Gardening Through the Seasons of Life

By Raymond Degg

Your first gardening experience as a child can be very exciting. Children establish a great connection to the earth when they're raised around fruit trees, flowers, fresh-grown tomatoes, and zesty herbs in the yard. This love for gardening continues throughout one's life, and even becomes stronger as we age.




A garden can be a place of respite and peace in our retirement years. "Grandma's Garden" is a classic symbol of tranquility, life, and love. Few realize that gardening reaps tremendous benefits for our health.

One of the best is exercise. The medical community is starting to recognize the power of everyday activities and hobbies to provide low-exertion exercise for the body. Moving your muscles and joints, bending down, standing up, carrying, and digging are all important movements for us as we age. Add to that the fresh air and sunshine, and you have a tremendous health-promoting activity.

Building and maintaining a garden takes strength, and for many seniors adjustments need to be made for gardening to be a more accessible past time.

Design or redesign your garden to meet your physical needs. Can you not crouch down? Try hanging pots instead. Can you not handle too much work in the garden each day? Create a very small garden, and use plants and flowers that require less upkeep.

Find tools that are designed to make it easier for you to do your work, like lightweight ones with comfortable handles.

Use some light warm-up exercises before beginning in the garden to ensure that you won't damage any muscles or joints. Gently roll your neck from side to side, then try rolling your wrists, and bending your knees a few times. Do what feels comfortable, but do not push yourself.

Muscle-toning, Cardio, and Flexibility

Gardening has wonderful benefits for the muscles. When carrying bags of soil, flats of flowers, or tools, make sure that they're not too heavy for you. Lift things in separate shifts if need be, but carrying the right amount of weight at a time is great for bone density and muscle toning.

Keeping up a garden also requires walking, digging, and planting. All of these actions promote cardiovascular health by slightly elevating the heart rate and deepening the breath. This improves circulation, lung capacity, and overall health. Again, only do as much as feels comfortable and invigorating.

Swatting, kneeling, turning and twisting are great for your joints. When it comes to flexibility, you really need to use it or lose it. While gardening, focus on the subtle movements, and how the various actions are keeping your muscles and joints alive and well.

Gardening can also be great for you emotional health as well as physical health. Relax and take deep breaths while gardening. Admire all the colors and scents, have picnics in your garden, or maybe your first cup of coffee in the morning. There's no greater fulfillment than admiring the natural beauty around you that has been nurtured by your own hard work.

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