The Gardening Blog

let's say..i want to plant tomato..! remember 'organic"

To start, I would make sure my soil was amended properly with plenty of compost to naturally feed my soil. Then, a side dressing of a natural/organic fertilizer should be done twice during the season. These can be found at local home and garden stores, or feed stores.

For bugs that are damaging my plant or fruits thereof, I use DE (diatomaceous earth-found at lowe's for about $9) or insecticidal soap.
The links below will give you more information.

Happy Gardening!

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How do you roll back the water hose,used for gardening ?

Good question. I've been having to deal with that pesky hose a lot lately, and there never seems to be a good way. I bought a nice big ceramic pot to coil my hose nicely into, but haven't been using it lately. Sometimes I drape it over the gate. A lot of the time it just ends up in a big messy heap. Maybe the easiest thing to do is to just leave it in a long line along side the house. A sprinkler system or site specific hose connectors with quick connects would be ideal.

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I bought some roses, i bought them like 3 or 4 days ago and there kind of drying out but only on the sides of the peddles i have them in a vase with water but does any one have some ways to help my roses??
i want my roses to be in my garden but i dont know what to do…

If you have cut roses in a vase with water - enjoy them while they last. Cut flowers only last a few days.

If you want roses to grow in your garden - go buy a rose bush from a nursery or garden center, and plant it in a sunny spot in your garden. Don't forget to water it.

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No experience with gardening!! I just bought a house with a small (4' x 3') garden in the backyard. Right now the garden is empty but I hope to get some flowers & bushes in soon. Do I need to separate the garden from the surrounding grass with some sort of barrier so they don't grow into each other? Or will the roots of the plants keep each other from overgrowing? Secondly, I am looking for a hardy ground-covering type plant that grows with minimal care and perhaps has some nice flowers. Any suggestions?

If it was me I'd want to put in a barrier to prevent the grass from constantly encroaching on the garden. The ditch and landscape timbers can work, but more effective barriers would be:

1) tear off the sod around the garden spot (about a foot width) and a little deeper than just the sod. Then line with plastic (heavy duty plastic garbage bags work just fine, make sure to do a good job of overlapping the plastic. Then fill with rock…I find that works really well for many years

2) find a good edging… find something that will go down into the ground about 8inches. Don't get the 4" stuff…it's just not enough. Find any kind of edging or material that will let you put a wall down into the ground about 8" and that should prevent things from going into your garden.

As another poster said, 4' x 3' is a very small garden…you will not be able to do much with it. Most plants get big fast!

Have fun!

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I saw something about it on tv the other day and have read a little about it before.

Does anyone have any experience, does it make a difference or is it coincidence?

From my own experience, I find most things are reluctant to grow after June, when the days start getting shorter. I've never tried gardening by moon phases, I tend to go by the phases of the sun rather than the moon, but thought of trying it out this year just for fun.

I tried it a few years back - but you really do have to be quite methodical about it!
My main problem with it was that it wanted me to sow/grow/harvest etc. at times I wasn't ready to!
The idea is that you should expect bigger & better, pest free crops if whatever you grow.
My mum also did it a few years back, she is retired and was able to fit her schedule around the suggested times etc. more easily than I could and she reckoned she did see a difference - not sure if that was just wishful thinking though!

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