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Basic Guidelines Of Home Landscaping
Dec 5th
Home landscaping does not just involve sticking plants into your vacant front or backyard and making it look “green”. When designing and landscaping your own home, you need to invest some time and put in a lot of creativity to beautify your front lawn or backyard.
Here are some do-it-yourself tips to landscape your lawn: First, clear the general area that you will be designing and start from scratch. This will give you a better ‘canvass’ to work with. Then, sketch the general look that you would like to have for your garden. Make a list of the plants, trees and shrubs that you can plant. When deciding on the type of plants, make sure that there will be a plant which will flower or bloom for each season of the year – winter, spring, summer and fall. For example, perennial flowers will bloom in May, but after that it will just look like an ordinary plant. Having a plant which blooms in a different time of the year would make your garden have a focal point even when other plant variants are not in season.
As much as possible, make a layered planting bed. At the back row which is the farthest from your house, plant the variants which grow the tallest. This will serve as the base of your landscaping. In the middle and front rows, put the shorter plants. Make sure that you apply this rule in every area of the garden where you plan to put in plants for a more ‘trimmed’ look.
You can also vary the design of your walls and fences. When choosing ‘furniture’ for your garden, like a table and chair garden set, place them in an area where they can best be viewed and enjoyed. Installing a water fall is a great idea to add to the main attractions of your landscaped garden. Also don’t forget about landscape lighting so show off your new prize. A lamp post light or other braod lighting will really make your hard work shine…literrally!
With some hard work and a lot of creativity, you will feel great once you look out your window and you see the landscaped lawn which you designed and built yourself.
Get Rid of those Garden Pests
Oct 25th
“Can’t we all just get along?” gardeners implore, exasperated to keep pests out of their gardens. It can be agonizing to watch plants, fruits and seeds get devoured by rabbits, gophers and birds. Yet not everyone feels comfortable poisoning and killing a wild animal for the sake of sheer “convenience.” Nor do they want to spray harmful pesticides and chemicals on the food they’ll be eating. That’s where the Easy Gardener 8021 Garden Defense Electronic Owl – Sound and Motion Sensored comes in. This cute gizmo scares away garden predators with a turn of its electronic head and a startling “HOOT!” Gardeners can rest easy knowing that their plunder is kept safe by the watchful eye of an animatronic owl.
The manufacturer of the Easy Gardener 8021 Garden Defense Electronic Owl – Sound and Motion Sensored says that this owl “frightens birds, squirrels, rabbits, rodents and other destructive pests,” while also making “an attractive lawn ornament or patio accent.” To use, you simply install the owl on a pole or hang it from a tree. Some people perch the owl up high, while others put it closer to the areas it’s protecting. Sound and motion sensors pick up the movement of animals and cause the owl to elicit a realistic “HOOT!” This model of the Great Horned Owl is intimidating to many other animals and runs off three AA batteries. For the best results, the manufacturer says you should “reposition the owl decoy every few days.”
The Easy Gardener 8021 Garden Defense Electronic Owl – Sound and Motion Sensored has a 3/5 rating at Amazon, with 15 positive 4 or 5 star reviews and 19 unfavorable 1 or 2 star reviews. The satisfied buyers say that the owl worked great to deter birds from roosting in their car ports and on their porches. However, those who wanted to use the owl as an outdoor pest deterrent for the garden seemed disappointed by the quality of the owl, which didn’t seem to weather rain or dirt very well. Some people reported that they loved the owl’s hoots and motion sensor capabilities, while others found it to be annoying — especially when it went off early in the morning or late in the evening. The happiest buyers moved their owls each day as they walked outdoors to keep the pests guessing, the most dissatisfied customers were the ones who left their owls in one stationary spot, only to find other birds pooping and pecking on it.
The plastic may crack off if dropped, the batteries die quickly and fail if dirt gets inside the chamber and brave animals may not be deterred. These are some of the common complaints with the Easy Gardener 8021 Garden Defense Electronic Owl – Sound and Motion Sensored. There are nearly 40 reviews over at www.tipshopping.com. “I really think it does not make a difference for black birds that were constantly crapping on my pool cover,” writes one consumer. “Within minutes of putting the owl up, the birds were attacking it,” said another buyer. The owl only works for so long, said a reviewer who explained: “This product seemed to work at keeping critters away at first; however, they seemed to become use to it and continued to come back.” The positive reviewers often comment that they move their own every few days or so to keep the birds and critters guessing.
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Bugs Can Help Beautify Your Garden
Oct 21st
Did you know that the Mall of America releases thousands of live ladybugs into their indoor garden each year? While this may sound strange, ladybugs take care of pest problems in a natural way, devouring everything from aphids, chinch bugs, asparagus beetles and thrips, to alfalfa weevils, grape root worms and mites. Not only do they eradicate these predators in an environmentally-friendly way, but they will also do it in a very cost-effective way. For less than , you can order 4,500 of these little ladies to your house, where they will protect your garden from unwanted pests.
When you order your live ladybugs, you will receive a UPS shipment of adult stage insects. Within 8-10 days of their release, each female ladybug will lay 10 to 50 eggs beneath leaves in your yard. In just 2 to 5 days, dark flight-less creatures with orange spots will emerge, ready to feast upon 50 to 60 aphids per day. After 21 days, they pupate and the prettier adult ladybugs come out in 2 to 5 days, hungry and ready to consume 5,000 aphids each! Arbico Organics ships their ladybugs Monday through Wednesday, with orders going out next-day. Since some ladybugs may perish during transport, extra ones are sent with each order. Ladybugs prefer temperatures from 61 to 82 degrees. If necessary, you may store adults for 1 to 3 weeks at 35 to 45 degrees before releasing them into the world to propagate.
Catalina Mountains-based Arbico, which stands for Arizona Biological Control Inc., has been operating for over 30 years under the premise that we can have beautiful, productive gardens naturally, without the use of chemical pesticides. “Bug-Man” Rick Frey began raising live ladybugs, praying mantis, green lacewing, moth egg parasites and beneficial nematodes to combat gardens infested by destructive and unsightly pests. Additionally, www.arbico-organics.com provides visitors with advice on fertilizer and soil care, as well as fly and weed control.
Once you order your live ladybugs from www.arbico-organics.com, you will want to take a few measures to see that these beneficial friends stick around and don’t take wing with your investment. First, release the ladybugs in the garden at night so they do not immediately fly away. (Ladybugs like to fly in temperatures above 55 degrees and in mid-day sun). Secondly, make sure to water your garden regularly so they have plenty to drink. Let the ladybugs do their thing and kill the aphids; just be aware that the ladybugs will only stick around as long as their food supply does. Keep plants that ladybugs appreciate around too, like cilantro, mustard, crimson clover, bronze fennel, vetches and buckwheat.
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