Grow Your Own Food
GROW YOUR OWN FOOD
AfSD™(ADVOCATE FOR SAVING DOGS™and all living creatures)
♥ AmberZo ♥ (GoVegan)
GROW YOUR OWN FOOD
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Everyone can benefit from growing a garden! Planting your own organic veggie garden will give you safe food (pesticide/GMO-free, and organic) to share with your loved ones, its good exercise, its rewarding, you can make money from it, learn something new, and create a place to entertain, meditate and be artistic.
Avoid food shortages & high prices.
Plant an extra row and donate it to your local food bank.
How to Grow Your Own Garden
Step 1
Design for your tastes and site and pick a spot with at least 10 hours a day of sun. Measure your available space and make a drawing of it on graph paper for a working design. These older, often ancient, varieties of fruits, vegetables and herbs are almost always more flavorful – think particularly in terms of organic heirloom plants.
Step2
Give the bed a focal point for year round interest. Plan for a sundial, bird feeding station, wire obelisk, tall sculpture or trellis at the center of your garden.
Step3
Choose cottage garden ambiance for a friendly garden that overflows its borders with flowers. Use any shape – circles and ellipses are popular – and define it with a path that circles and bisects it for maintenance.
Step4
Consider a more formal garden style to make the most of small spaces or to complement traditional architecture. Sketch a rectangle, square or perfect circle in quadrants to be bordered entirely by small shrubs and crossed by paths to separate it into equal planting areas.
Step5
Draw in paths – for style and easy access on pavers, flagstone or gravel. Make them wide enough to wheelbarrow through and use as many as necessary to reach into the bed comfortably for picking and grooming.
Step6
Plan your planting in sections that follow the garden’s basic shape. Space perennials around a bed like the hours on a clock, but put them at the center or rear of each section in a formal style design. Fill between perennials and border shrubbery with annual herbs, vegetables and flowers.
….and if you don’t have space outside, grow a garden in a bottle:
How to Grow a Garden in a Bottle
Step1
Prepare your bottle. You can use anything from a glass fancy bottle to a plastic soda bottle. Use a small amount of bleach and place it inside your bottle. Fill the rest of your bottle with warm water and rinse. If you do not have bleach around, soap and water should do work as well. The idea is to sterilize your bottle to help keep fungus from growing among your plants.
Step2
Line the bottom of the bottle with fishbowl pebbles. This is going to be your drainage layer. Since your bottle has no drainage holes you have to have somewhere for the water to go when your soil is full. As your plant needs more water it will draw the water from the gravel and into its roots. If you do not put pebbles in the bottom of your bottle your plants will have too much water and may get overgrown with mold and fungus.
Step3
Use a spoon to shovel your planting soil into the bottle. Don’t fill the bottle so full that you haven’t left any room for your plants to grow.
Step4
Plant your seeds. Use a spoon, if your hands are not small enough to fit in the bottle, to place the seeds you wish to plant into the bottle. Spoon more planting soil on top of the seed.
Step5
Tend to your plants. You bottle will cause a tropical environment for your plants, so this is the perfect environment to try to grow plants that would not normally grow in you region. Since it creates a tropical environment, you will not need to water as often. Only water when there is no longer condensation forming on the inside of the bottle. (ehow.com)
.plant a seed, watch it grow.
love & light
♥ AmberZo ♥
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