OATS - Garden Guide
How To Make A Festive Snowflake Plant Pot
How to make an inexpensive and festive plant pots, Ideal for adding additional festive cheer to your Christmas decorations. Christmas plant pots also make fantastic Christmas presents for any plant lover. They can be used...
Gardening is for the Birds
A couple of years ago someone asked me how I viewed my back yard. I told him that I thought it was the best room in the house. Actually, when we found this house the best selling point was the back yard. Yes, we are outdoors...
Storage Sheds The Un-Clutter Solution
A storage shed is a light structure (generally made of wood) in a back garden used for storage of tools, vehicles, or useful items and is very frequently used to pursue hobbies like gardening and light engineering. Storage...
Brilliant Corners: House Plants and Your Health
Although many of us cannot deny the emotional benefits of filling our house with various breathing green things, we usually do not see the house plant as something which can improve our physical well-being. Nonetheless low...
Western Red Cedar Finishing
Western Red Cedar is one of the few wood species that are just naturally at home outdoors. When properly finished, Western Red Cedar will gracefully weather for decades, even in harshest of environments. Its natural resistance...
How To Create A Butterfly Garden
Creating a butterfly garden is a little different from the standard flower garden, but that does not mean you need to be without any favorite flowers or fragrances. Many butterfly attractants are just as attractive to humans as...
Get To Know Organic Fertilizer
What is organic fertilizer?Growing vegetable and fruit organically is not allowable using any chemical supplements. It must be entirely organic from the planting process, periodical maintenance up to the harvest period. Using...
An Introduction To Palm Trees
A palm tree symbolizes life and its continuance, as well as joy and happiness. Dante mentions that Christians travelling to the Holy Land were known as palmeros. palm trees have been a part of myths as well as religion. The...
Herbal Medicine Chest in Your Backyard
What could be easier than growing an herb garden with no effort? Of course, you'll have to harvest your weeds, but you would do that anyhow: it's called weeding.Spring is an especially fertile time for harvesting your weeds -...
Kolkwitzia Amabilis 'Pink Cloud'
A Profusion of Blooms from Grandmother's Garden
My favorite deciduous shrub for mid-spring color is a plant that was widely grown in grandmother's times - Kolkwitzia amabilis, commonly and aptly named Beauty Bush. This plant...
Ficus Tree
Ficus is a genus in the Moraceae family. The genus contain around 800 species; from vines and shrubs to woody trees. A majority of the fucus species originates from the tropical regions, but some also grow wild in subtropical...
Super Foods from Home Vegetable Gardens
Most of you have heard about super foods. These super foods are classified as being rich in vitamins, nutrients and/or minerals that are believed by nutritionists to forestall disease, promote longevity and good health. High...
Tools For Gardening Roses
Roses unlike many flowers require more attention and care to insure that your roses are the most beautiful they can be. They also require you have some basic tools that will make your gardening of roses easier. Here is a list...
About Foggers And Misters For Ponds And Fountains
Foggers (or misters, they are called both) make mysterious, "dry ice" effects without the need of ice. These little machines use a simple technique of high frequency, ultrasonic vibration to make ultra-fine droplets of mist...
Teak Bench - Put Some Spring into your Decor
More frequently than not, people forget that adding a teak bench to their outdoor area can add life to what otherwise seems to be lifeless area of the yard. Teak benches can add style, personality and a little bit of whom you...
Concrete Pond Sealer
There are a lot of lovers of flora and fauna who go in for the creation of ponds. Those ponds that are created out of concrete also need to be given a final coat of Concrete Pond Sealer. This protects the concrete pond from the...
6 Types Of Fertilizers
To ensure healthy growth of plants, you need to add fertilizers to the soil. This is because the nutrients are lost due to absorption by the plants and through leaching and washing or simply evaporation. But to use fertilizers...
Outdoor Storage Sheds
Outdoor storage sheds are easy to build and anything from the kids bikes and skateboards to gardening equipment and tools can be stored in outdoor storage sheds. They are best for storing recreational objects like boats,...
Teak Wood Used for Benches and Boats
Teak is valued by craftsmen and boat builders because it is very easy to work with, is extremely water and insect-proof, and will not easily split, warp or interact with corrosive materials such as metal screws, nails and...
February In The Garden
Often in February there is a surprisingly warm day. Everybody sheds their coats and puts a bounce in their step. Sure, sometimes on the next day they hear a snow plow at 4 AM. But the brief warm up gets you thinking what is...