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The beauty of Garden ...Any good tips?!

Home & Garden

Posted by: beachhut

14th Apr 2015 06:11pm

Hi,

Do you love your own garden? small or big? How do you maintain now? getting cold?

- What's the best plant for protect privacy ?


Comments 12

Captured
  • 4th May 2015 01:15am

I really enjoy gardening.
I currently have a number of fruit and vegies growing in raised beds and pots in the backyard.
At the moment i have strawberries, blue berries, orange, lemon, mandarin, chillis, capsicum, corn, snow peas, cucumbers, spinach and rainbow chard, rhubarb, carrots, radish, garlic, beetroot, tomatoes, purple beans and many types of herbs.

I have a "busy" garden out the front. It is filled with various native and exotic species such as various grevilleas, banksias, bottle brush, gaura, blue fescue, fountain grass, lambs ears, seaside daisy, lobelia, snapdragons, crucifix orchid, old man's beard, petunias and many other plants.

My garden is very low maintainence. I mulch it with sugarcane mulch and fertilise with osmocote or similar product once or twice a year if needed, lightly prune the tops out of the grevilleas to keep them 2-2.5m high, and prune away any branches overhanging the driveway as needed.

Some people would say my garden is medium to large sized (our house is on a 697m2 block), but i would ideally like something much bigger if i had the chance.

There are many shrubs/small trees you can get to give you privacy. Depending on where you live would depend on what is best for your situation.
One good idea is to go for a walk in your neighbourhood and see what everyone else has growing and what is growing well. Take a photo of the plants you like and then show those photos to the staff at your local garden centre. They should be able to point you in the right direction from there.

dj0003
  • 30th Apr 2015 09:53am

Hi
My partner and I are self employed gardeners (7 years) with our own business. There are no tricks to gardening, it's all pure work, care and fun. One of our mottos is............take time to do it thoroughly the 1st time and you will have more enjoyment maintaining your garden.

Sorry, but there's no such thing as a MAINTENANCE FREE garden. We just call it TLC..............lol

camellias make a great hedge/border and give beautiful foliage, flowers and scent all wrapped up in one beautiful plant.

cheers
Deb

Maggie24
  • 27th Apr 2015 09:58am

Yes a do love my garden - nothing better than growing things you can eat. I love to make new plants from old - I'm always growing something. I was really surprised to learn that people all around the world plant sweet peas on St Patrick's Day I'm not sure why. I knew we did in Australia but have recently heard it referred to on English and American gardening shows. Also if you want to make a cucumber last longer wrap it totally in cling wrap and put it in the crisper section of the fridge. Would be nice to be able to post some photos here.

vettsies
  • 26th Apr 2015 04:02pm

i have a fairly same front garden that i maintain with roses and glads but backyard is to big and just do basics.i dont really like gardening

Anonymous
  • 24th Apr 2015 10:57am

Most of our plants are frost free the ones that don't like the frost we cover with shade cloth.
We find Mop Tops that we have planted is the best for privacy.

chickenman
  • 23rd Apr 2015 08:10pm

a garden is a source of much pleasure and beauty, if looked after. i love growing things i can eat.

bettythrelfo
  • 27th Apr 2015 09:42am
a garden is a source of much pleasure and beauty, if looked after. i love growing things i can eat.

gosh so many good hints have come in, that I had once read about, but forgot... Now one of the items I find easy to grow here in w.a. is sweet potato... I originally bought a cheap one, cut it into chunkc, put the chunkc into a bucket and just let grow... Once the vine was about l ft. long, I planted all in soil, and from then on I have had plenty... Do not wash immediately when you take from the soil, they keep better with soil on them... If you wish to use, then wash them... Everywhere that the plants put down roots, sweet potato comes, and there are two colours, I think I have now both.. I love sweet potato chips, and I use the sweet potato just like pumpkin, in fact often in place of pumpkin.. Out in the garden plot I now have everything growing together, no individual rows just a bit higgly , this way, seems to give me a better crop... I have corn about 5 inches high and scattered in between rows, spring onions, and I noticed some pumpkin seeds have shot, I think was the butternut which I prefer.. Have some jars so will keep now to try the celery one.. thanks everyone, love reading and talking back to you...

Anonymous
  • 23rd Apr 2015 04:15pm

Yeah I love my garden. It's not really that big nor small. It was really hard at the first time starting doing the garden because it was bushes everywhere, weeds all over the ground and so many spiders and ants around. But after 2 weeks of tidying the garden finally it was finished and it is easier to maintain them now because I always look into it and remove all the weeds atleast once a week. The best plant to protect privacy are the big trees but I have grape fruit, apple and heaps of plants that actually help in protecting my privacy.

One way of keeping your garden beautiful is to have a regular watering day, make sure the soil are still healty, remove the weeds that grwos around the plants.

It is indeed getting cold nowadays since winter is coming soon.

bettythrelfo
  • 23rd Apr 2015 02:28pm

I love gardening, and I enjoy most of all being able to extend the life of the plants at times... do you know that you can cut the bottom of a tomato bush off, about 3 inch. from ground, and then it will shoot again and give more tomatoes... mine are all doing that on last years vines.. also a garlic nob, take the individual pieces out and plant, making sure you get the bottom to the bottom.... A carrot top cut off and put into water for awhile, then planted will give you back a small carrot, and by the way did you know that you can cut the tops off carrot, the green bit, chop fine and add to soups and stews... during the war, this was always used... the top of a pineapple cut off, put in water for half an hour or so, then planted will nearly always grow and give you back smaller pineapples.. The bottom of a stick of celery can be planted, and it will come again with smaller sticks... told you can do it also with lettuce, but have never tried..... a plant for privacy, do you want a vine or a shrub.. Hibiscus takes awhile to grow but they can get big .....

jules06
  • 14th Jul 2015 02:50am
I love gardening, and I enjoy most of all being able to extend the life of the plants at times... do you know that you can cut the bottom of a tomato bush off, about 3 inch. from ground, and then...

Wow what a little paragraph of gems!! Amazing little things i bet no-one work ld ever have dreamed. Thanks.i have put these little gems in a note book & will get some growing when i have a chance


goanna
  • 26th Apr 2015 09:03pm
I love gardening, and I enjoy most of all being able to extend the life of the plants at times... do you know that you can cut the bottom of a tomato bush off, about 3 inch. from ground, and then...

That's really good to know. I found this online as well which may help you.

Re-Growing Garlic

1. You can re-grow an entire plant with just 1 clove.
2. Push a single clove, root down, roughly 5cm into a bed of quality potting soil.
3. Water lightly to keep the soil damp.
4. Harvest your newly grown bulb of 5-10 cloves when the leaves turn yellowish-brown.

Re-Growing Ginger
1. Ginger likes filtered-sunlight and loose soil that drains well, making it perfect for container gardening in small places.
2. Fill your pot loosely with top soil from your local gardening centre.
3. Plant your chunk of scrap ginger no deeper than 2cm below the surface of the soil.
4. Water lightly and regularly to keep the soil damp.
5. Harvest when the shoots are 30cm tall.


Re-Growing Celery
1. All you need to re-grow celery is a sun-drenched space and a generously-sized jar.
2. Remove the stalk and leaves to within 4cm of the root.
3. Fill your jar with roughly 60ml of warm water.
4. Place your starter root in the jar, root side down.
5. Transfer your starter root to a soil bed when the leaves thicken and a new growth occurs.
6. Harvest your crisp crop when the new growth stalks are roughly 20cm tall.

pinkrose
  • 23rd Apr 2015 07:47pm
I love gardening, and I enjoy most of all being able to extend the life of the plants at times... do you know that you can cut the bottom of a tomato bush off, about 3 inch. from ground, and then...

Gardening is food for the soul and both an energetic and peaceful activity which provides great pleasure.

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