Most of us want to landscape our backyard or an unused space in our yard but most of the times you don’t know how and shere to start. To some, it might be fraustrating or overwhelming. Here are some guides and tips from a landscape designer for transforming any spot of your yard into a paradise garden.
The “green thumb” is probably the best gardening tool but for those who are not so gifted, there is a wide variety of gardening tools to help you by. For a well-maintained garden, garden tools can help a lot. It is important to understand that a garden tool is different from the range of tools that agriculturists and horticulturists use. They are either hand maneuvered tools or power tools made to handle home-based garden requirements. Garden tools are made of wood, metal and plastic. If you are a serious gardener, you should have the following essential gardening tools.
This solar terracotta cascade fountain is made from terracotta clay and steel. It has built-in solar pump that utilizes nature to cycle the water downward from the jug to the succeeding terracotta pots. It operates in direct sunlight and comes with an AC adapter for night time use. It provides a soothing and relaxing atmosphere in your garden while you lounge and unwind from a hard day’s work. You can fill the terracotta dish with white marble chips for added style and beauty. It has a sturdy plastic-coated metal frame.
SQUIRTING CUCUMBER
Although squirting cucumber seed is rarely on sale, the plant is far too amusing to ignore. Seed merchants, take note! Otherwise, you will have to collect it yourself if holidaying in a hot area, where squirting cucumbers grow like weeds in sunny, open spots and on dung-heaps. Make sure you are wearing old clothes and sunglasses - contact lenses are unsuitable - before you begin to collect them. Approach the plant cautiously and look out for one of the gherkin-like fruits with a yellowed stalk. Hold a small bag next to the stalk, with its open end facing the fruit. Use your other hand to push the fruit upwards. It will break off the stalk and squirt a jet of yellow fluid -containing the fruit - into the bag. Dry the seed and sow it directly in the garden the following spring. The low-growing plants need a warm position. The female flowers produce fruit about 1V2 in long. As soon as they are ripe, you can play a sticky trick on someone - mind people’s eyes, though.
MALABAR SPINACH
The western species of spinach would run to seed prematurely in the tropics, but inhabitants of Africa and Asia have an alternative, Malabar spinach, named by the British after the Indian district where the vegetable is still cultivated. The plant grows there as a perennial climber, but in cooler climates it must be cultivated as an annual by sowing it indoors at about 68 °F and growing the plants on until they can be put out-of-doors at the end of May. They may be planted in a large pot to climb up a trellis or cover a pergola. It is important, though, to stand the plants in a warm place and to give them plenty of water and plant food.
