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Compostable Garden Planters

By: Bare Bones Gardener

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The Bare Bones Gardener is a qualified Horticulturist and a qualified Disability Services Worker. He despises spending money on stuff which doesn’t live up to the promises given. So he looks for cheaper, simpler, simpler or free ways of doing the same thing and then he passes these thoughts on to others.

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Would you like a more natural alternative to using those plastic planter containers? Well, here is a project for you, where you can have an fascinating planter during the growing season, then throw the container out in the garden for mulch, without having to add to the world’s landfill problems.

These planters can be used and grown anywhere you can provide excellent plant growing conditions, including on a patio, pathway or even a roof top. The main criteria being enough sunlight for the plants chosen, easy access to water and an ease of access to maintain the planter/s.

Just follow the steps below.

What you will need

· One or more rectangular bales of hay, (One per planter).

· 4 to 8 seedlings or small plants per planter.

· One to two excellent handfuls of soil/compost/potting mix per plant.

· Small garden handtools.

· Hose/watering can.

· Liquid fertilizer.

· Area chosen to provide enough light for growing conditions required by plants selected.

Steps

Take one rectangular bale of hay; flip it on its side so that the straps are around the sides not over the top and bottom.

Moisten the hay bale thoroughly with a hose or watering can.

Using the handle of a hand tool, dig four to eight holes in the new upper surface of the hay bale, these holes have to be huge enough to hold a excellent handful of soil.

Into each hole, place a handful or two of compost, soil or potting mix.

Plant up your choice of annuals, herbs or small-lived perennials.

· Water the plants in well and fertilize them with a liquid fertilizer.

· Because of the air gaps in the hay, this type of planter can dry out more quickly than a normal planter, so regular watering is essential.

· Also remember that your planter is really decomposing while you are using it so remember to regularly fertilize the plants growing in it. Because nutrients may become temporarily unavailable during the decomposition process.

After you have finished growing your plants, go it out to the garden, take the straps off the bale, and use it to mulch/fertilize a part of your garden. You will find that the centre of the bale has decomposed into compost nicely by this stage.

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Hard landscaping can define borders and areas in a garden, too.  Paths often split distinct bits of a garden:  and wooden archways can offer certain entrances and exits, which make a garden into discrete areas rather than a homogenous mess.

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“Landscaping” is usually thought of in terms of plants; lawns; borders; and shrubbery. Which it is, of course – but it doesn’t stop there. No: the thing that really finishes a garden is its hard landscaping – the stuff that doesn’t grow.

Hard landscaping, broadly, refers to the man-made bits that go into a garden. A fence is hard landscaping – as are trellises, pagodas, sheds, pathways as patios. Anything made and place into a garden for a purpose, is hard landscaping.

Like soft landscaping, hard landscaping represents an attempt to control the garden environment:  to import an element of design, which sets it apart from a wild or unorganised space.  While the soft part of the landscaping process is designed with plants, which pretty much uniformly change through seasonality and stage of growth, hard landscaping is done with objects that, once installed, will stay roughly the same throughout their life. As such, hard landscaping becomes an brilliant way to counterpoint the changing nature of the organic parts of a garden with solid “framing”.

Imagine hard landscaping as a picture frame surrounding a kind of continually-shifting image. The picture is supposed to shift – that’s part of its design. But the hard landscaping, the frame, gives it some kind of anchor by which it can be related to:  and by which it becomes familiar. A perfect example is the garden seat, which remains a garden seat while the leaves and blooms of the plants around it change through the seasons.

As hard landscaping, the garden seat isn’t only there to let people sit in the garden and delight in its scents or sights.  That’s part of the reason for having the garden seat, but not all.  The rest of the function that hard landscaping imports into the garden seat is this: it becomes a focal point, an unchanging piece of the garden which ties everything around it together, all that changing tapestry of greens and flower hues.

Hard landscaping can define borders and areas in a garden, too.  Paths often split distinct bits of a garden:  and wooden archways can offer certain entrances and exits, which make a garden into discrete areas rather than a homogenous mess.  Hard landscaping allows gardeners to effectively make “sense” of a garden – pointing both visitors and owners into each particularly designed part so that they can delight in them as they were intended to be loved.

All gardening is a way of controlling nature.  Hard landscaping adds borders, frames and frills to that control.  Hard landscaping is the scrolling on the cornice and the edging to the picture.  A way of separating the design of the garden from the inchoate nature of the world around it – of containing, directing and emphasising.  Without hard landscaping, a garden is simply a huge pile of plants: with hard landscaping, it becomes an ordered environment, a continually exploding mass of colour and scent that has been contained with wood and stone. That’s what sets a garden apart from a field or meadow – the organisation hard landscaping achieves.

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There is a quite an assortment of pieces and sets of wicker (particularly rattan) outdoor garden furniture that are mixed and matched to make just the right look. It is used for a variety of reasons and the process by and how it is made is often fascinating to people. 

The best varieties are the treated ones and you are going to learn exactly how they are made. But, you are going to first learn why rattan is so often used today. 

Why 

The use of smooth modern lines and sharp angles blended with carefully crafted wicker results in the production of the most elegant and comfortable works. These timeless works of art were made with the intent to complement any area and will make a warm and inviting place for you and your family to delight in. 

Furthermore, it is used because it often makes the same fantastic appeal and ambiance than a wood show. Therefore, many people use it to make an inviting outside or conservatory setting for much less money. Sometimes it is even showed indoors. 

How it is Made 

As noted already, contemporary wicker outdoor garden furniture is produced of the choicest palm wood material from specific locations within Africa, Asia, and Australasia.  Most of this material used for the manufacture of the finest wicker product originates from Indonesia. 

All the pieces used for this purpose are UV treated and can be placed outside all year round without the expectation of fading, splitting, or cracking of the rattan.  Most of these pieces come with a waterproof cover that protects and preserves the furniture when it is not in use. 

This special protection makes entertaining and dining outdoors much more convenient. Furthermore each piece increases its life span dramatically. (Of course beware that certain models are not UV or water resistant. So shop carefully.) 

Frequently, the frames are constructed from lightweight aluminum is usually coated in order to prevent it from rusting. Also being able to resist the outdoor elements makes each piece easy to go from area to area and can be packed away very tightly. 

Well loved Sets 

Certain models of rattan outdoor garden furniture can be combined in such a way to produce merely the right affect. These contemporary pieces are often mixed with additional décor and accessories to produce a show, that describes your uniqueness. 

Sets of recommended models include the following (pending current availability): The Juniper Garden Set which is recognized for its black base and frame against bright colored 12mm cushions, The Saturn Rattan Garden Furniture set which is built of thick, white padded cushions, and the Havana Rattan Garden Furniture Set which is known for its rich dark brown color and sharp corners.

Perfect soil

What is the function of soil in our yards and gardens? Simply place, soil provides plants with mineral nutrients, water and anchorage. The basic types of soil are clay, sand, and silt. The percentage of each determines whether you have sandy clay loam, silt, loam, etc.  There are so many variables that affect soil that your yard may have a different soil type than the one across the street.

Some soil properties that are influenced by the texture of soil include aeration, drainage, water holding capacity and temperature. For example, sandy soil has brilliant aeration, warms quickly in spring and has a low water-holding capacity. The exact opposite is right for clay. It has poor aeration, warms slowly, and has high water-holding capacity.

Here are the four major components of soil:

The solid part, or rocks and minerals Decaying organic matter, microorganisms, living or dead plants and other organic matter Liquid Soil air

 

Amounts of each of these components determine whether or not plants will grow and thrive in the soil. Ideal or perfect soil consists of 25% air, 25% water, 40% mineral matter and 10% organic matter. As you already know, this never happens!

But, what we do to improve our soil will affect our plants.

You can re-mineralize your soil by adding Minerals Plus or Texas Greensand. You can increase organic matter by adding a excellent organic compost. This also increases earthworm activity and beneficial bacterial growth.  Spray-N-Grow increases microbial activity that helps keep air and water moving in the soil. To find out more about your soil, use the Sunleaves Three Way Meter.  It allows you to test your soil for pH, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and will give you immediate results.

Naturally, some soil needs more work than others, but with a small work and some excellent organic garden products, you can pretend that your soil is perfect! All of the gardening products listed in this article can be bought from Spray-N-Grow.  

Most of the time rattan garden furniture is used to described a warm and inviting atmosphere for you and your family to appreciate. It helps make outdoor social occasions more relaxing, or in some cases more elegant.

Selection

The type of furniture you select may depend upon availability. But, it also helps to know which type of mood you want to make.

For instance do you prefer a more relaxed and informal setting, or do you associate with people who are more formal? Making your family and guests comfortable as well as pleasing everyone you know may seem like a daunting task at first.

But, you may be able to find ideals as you read examples of the following well loved designs offered today (pending availability):

Desert The Arizona Set which is more often than not recognised by its stylish western-themed upholstery and Havana Rattan Garden Furniture Set which is distinguished by its vivid, dark brown colour and sharp corners are two elegant examples. The Sahara-styled sets are also very well loved. Cubed These are styles of furniture that fit in tighter spaces and these are most recognized for their square and rectangular shapes as well as sharp angles. These collections often come with thick, padded cushions, and are oftentimes distinguished by their contrasting colours, such as black frame against white cushions. Sometimes they are made in brown versus white as well, and possibly new color combos will be introduced before long. L-Shaped Ensembles of well loved models include the following (again, depending upon what is available now): The Juniper Garden Set which is noted  for its contrasting place against bright colored 12mm cushions, and The Saturn Rattan Garden Furniture set which is built of thick, white padded cushions. Glass Dining Sets Some very attractive models of outside collections are sold with a large or small glass dining table. Alternatively, or a smaller glass coffee and refreshment table is supplied with the set. This trend of rattan garden furniture often may work well with any other variations of wicker furniture in the themes and styles as referred to earlier in this article.

Placement

The appropriate models of rattan garden collections can be integrated in such a way to make just the right look. These contemporary pieces are oftentimes combined with different styles of furniture to produce a show, which will show off your unique and personal style.

The placement of rattan garden item will depend highly upon how much space you have. Try mixing together contrasting colours for a very bold look or more neutral tones to make a more elegant ambiance.