Tips To Be a Master Smart Gardener – Grow Organic!

Executive Summary by: Stacey McCloskey

Can you organically garden? It seemingly begins with the soil.

• Gardening Tip #1-Return organic matter to the earth
  This is easily done through composting. Greens are grass clippings, garden and kitchen vegetable scraps, plant and bush waste, coffee grounds and filters, manure, sod, weeds, and hair. Browns include fall leaves, newspaper, cardboard, corn stalks, dryer link, pine needles and cones, and sawdust.

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The purpose of adding composted soil to your garden is to provide aeration to your soil and acts as a fertilizer.

• Gardening Tip #2-Check your soil.
• Gardening Tip #3-Be kind to your insects.
  The best defenses against insect attack are preventative measures such as efficient water use, beneficial insects, and companion planting.
• Gardening Tip #4-Weed sensibly. A nice, thick layer of mulch keeps light from reaching weeds and straw and grass clippings nourish the soil as they decompose. During the season, use a garden hoe to sever weed stems from their roots.

Use Patio Tile For Beautiful Low-Maintenance Gardens

Executive Summary by: Andy Maingam

The rear of my house resembled a derelict and neglected building. I love gardens, namely other peoples, but I’m no gardener myself.

I would do a one-off investment and get all my brickwork cleaned up and protected with a waterproof acrylic wash, and lay down some decorative patio tile designs and potted plants, just as my friend suggested.

I couldn’t believe the variety of styles there were to choose from with patio tiles. The landscape gardener also convinced me to have a tiny border with a maintenance free ground cover shrub to add a bit of greenery at ground level. In addition to some large pots, and plants, I have placed a large rock on the shopping list too.

Now we will be able to have BBQ’s and morning tea, and it’s all thanks to my friend’s suggestion to pave with patio tile.

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