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Category: Garden (page 8 of 13)
If you have children, you will probably find that especially during the summer months, your garden becomes a playground. It is very quick for a garden to become filled up with swings, slides trampolines and paddling pools. All of this equipment can be great to keep your children occupied during the summer evenings and weekends but can have an effect on your garden. Grass not only needs water but also light and if light cannot get through for whatever reason, this will very often kill the grass. If the grass has been killed it can take months to get it to grow back and often it may not grow back fully until the next year. If you have a large garden then you may want to turn part of it... Continue reading
In our gardens, we tend to focus more on what will be aesthetically pleasing rather than consider what effects our gardens have on the surrounding wildlife. For example, most people like to keep their lawn cut fairly short so that it looks neat and tidy, however, egg-laying insects, such as butterflies, actually require longer grass to be able to lay their eggs. Keeping hedgerows around the border of your garden is also much more wildlife friendly than having fences or walls. Hedges provide birds with a place to nest, hedgehogs a place to hide and small mammals shelter from bigger predators. Having a water feature in your garden such as a pond can be great for any amphibious animals such as frogs and newts and having aquatic plants will also provide... Continue reading
If you want to give your garden a bit of a refresh then it may be worth planting some grass seed to cover up the patches that seem to appear over the summer months. With kids playing on the grass, play equipment left in the same position and lack of rain, the summer really can take a toll on our gardens. Planting grass seed is a way to give it a refresh and hopefully help it to recover ready for next year. Grass seed is relatively cheap compared to some of the other products on the market but it does require a bit of TCL to get it to grow. When you are ready to plant the seed, give the patches a raking over to loosen the top soil, then... Continue reading
If you bring up gardening however don’t love getting the staining and dust under your nails and fingernail skin there are tips to keep that. 1. Purchase a straightforward bar of cleanser that you keep dry. Purchase a little jug of petroleum jam and a fingernail scour brush. 2. Rub petroleum liquefied jelly around every fingernail skin and on your nails. Leave a slender layer of it to coat the fingernail skin and nails. 3. Put on fabric planting gloves or don’t in the event that you don’t care for working with them. 4. Fabric gloves can secure yet you will in any case get inserted earth and dried out finger nails wearing them in wet or soggy soil. 5. Go to the sink and utilize some warm water and... Continue reading
Fresh flowers do have the power to add life to your home. Fresh flowers do carry a charm factor with themselves that brings enhancing feeling in the home. Flowers do contain natural fragrance which makes the various areas of the home light in good fragrance. They have the capability to enlighten bad modes and turn each person happy and jovial. The importance of fresh flowers has also been described in the holy books, and they are believed to carry special effects with themselves. You could place beautiful flowers in bunches at various parts of your home and also present fresh beautiful flowers to your loved ones every day. To maintain the freshness of the flowers you should make sure to place them in the water bowl of jar which would... Continue reading