A Screen that is a Garden
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How to make a visual screen for my garden?
Comments (17)Rising cost of food aside, I have been hung up on the principal that it is simply not respectful or polite to steal fruit from other's garden. I too have this concern each year, as I live on a busy throughfare in the city and my garden is a mere 10ft or less off the sidewalk. If you have the space to install a sunflower screen, I think that would be just beautiful! It will attract birds though...which can be good and bad. Will passers-by pick your sunflowers? My most troubling concern is that the local hoodlums will steal my fruit...then throw it through my windows. :( My neighbor across the street from the garden informed me that the only garden burglary that happened last year was a "scruffy" looking elderly man passing by and grabbing an outlying tomato and promptly chomping into it as he kept walking down the sidewalk. That didn't disturb me one bit...one tomato...but the potential for damage is high and I worry about it...but putting in a visual screen is not really an option for me, as I would lose needed sun-time. We'll see what happens this year!...See MoreHandy device for sifting-screening raised beds, gardens
Comments (4)One of the container soil recipes I want to try says partially composted bark. How do you sort it out after it's been in the composter? Do you compost it seperately from your other compost?I add leaves and bunny poo and bedding with any veg/fruit scraps, how can you possibly pick out the bark? If I take the bark and add some bllod meal and keep moist I won't have the mass needed to heat, will I ?...See MoreSuggestions for privacy screen planting in a container garden
Comments (9)Also doesn't have any meat on it. The fruits are quite interesting, maybe you could plant it in combination with something more substantial. The color of the fruit would be quite nice with the foliage of purple-leaved wine grape (Vitis vinifera 'Purpurea'). The grapes from this one aren't tops, however. The simplest thing would be to buy a Fargesia 'Rufa' and plant it in the middle of of a tub. Kept watered and fertilized it would soon make a substantial and dense clump....See MoreScreen Porch Garden (Newbie Gardener)
Comments (7)Overhead lights likely won't work. The sun is BRIGHT. Vastly brighter than any ceiling light, unless maybe you have a nuclear power plant in the back yard. In fact, for seedlings, lights are set within an inch or two of the top of the seedling. Even then, that's not as bright as sunlight. Any higher, and very little of the light coming out actually hits the plants. It's hard to understand. You say, hey, this is bright enough for me to read. It must be bright enough for plants! NO NO NO. The iris in your eye opens up in dim light, making dim light LOOK satisfyingly bright. It's not about heat. It's about light. You're looking for plants that do well in minimal sunlight. Forget about any fruiting plants. Fruiting plants need lots of sunlight. You're going to be looking at leafy vegetables. They can make do with just an hour or two of sunlight. Even then, the productivity won't be great, but you'll get something....See Morecatkim
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