Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category
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Herb Gardening is Gaining in Popularity
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Herb gardening is becoming more and more popular every day, and for a good reason. Herbs have practical value, serve a purpose, and with herb gardening you can actually use your plants. When most people think of herb gardening they automatically think of cooking, but herbs are also grown for their pleasant [...]
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Japanese Gardening - Close to Nature
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Japanese gardening is a cultural form of gardening that is meant to produce a scene that mimics nature as much as possible by using trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, ponds, and flowing water as art-forms. The Zen and Shinto traditions are both a large part of Japanese gardening and, because of this; the [...]
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Gardening - Starting with a Small Garden Space
Monday, August 11th, 2008
A good starting point to remember, while working in the garden, is to intially keep it to a small scale. A small bed, about 25 or 30 square meters is perfect, this is more than enough space for about 30 or so plants. This gives you the opportunity to prove your green fingers and if [...]