Search Results for: label/garden design/page/5/2011/04/making-it

1059 results

Best Practices for Gardening in Contaminated Soil

Avatar photo
Gardening, Lead
3 Comments
...neral root vegetables uptake the most lead, leafy greens less and fruit almost none. The most conservative approach is to grow in raised beds. The main concern is for children under 5 years old. If your soil tests high in lead and you have young ones you should consider doing your edible gardening in raised beds and limit their exposure to garden soils to a few times a month. Mulch and ground covers will also decrease lead exposure in the other pa...

Read…

2017 the Year in Review

Avatar photo
Thoughtstylings
9 Comments
...ur old house and garden that will continue into the coming year. As to the garden, it fell into such a state of disrepair that we’ve decided to hire someone to help us clean things up and come up with plan. We’ll blog about the process and, if all goes well, have some before and after photos to share. On a lighter note, we added a dog, Ivan, to our menagerie of household critters. A friend of ours, April, noted that he looks a lot like 70s prog-ro...

Read…

104 Erin Schanen the Impatient Gardener

Avatar photo
Gardening, Podcasts
2 Comments
...e. Sweet peas. Grow lights. A lavender lined path. Websites: The Impatient Gardener, Impatient Gardener on Facebook and Instagram, @impatientgarden on Twitter. Special thanks to Eric of Garden Fork for introducing me to Erin! If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr...

Read…

Cutting a Beehive Out of a Wall

Avatar photo
Animals, Bees
6 Comments
...d the other for honey comb to feed back to the bees once they got to Sue’s garden. The next time I do this I’m going to get some buckets for this purpose as the trash bags tend get stuck together with honey. Another lesson I learned is to bring a tarp. Taking a hive out of a wall leaves a huge mess of spilled honey, construction debris and dead bees. Once we had the brood comb in the nuc box we noticed worker bees returning from field massing wher...

Read…

Flexible PVC Pipe for Greywater

Avatar photo
Water Conservation
2 Comments
...washing machine waste water out to your plants, just like you would with a garden hose. But garden hose could burn out your washing machine’s motor because it’s too small and has a tendency to kink up, hence the need for flexible 1″ pvc. Another handy item from the bourgeois land of pools and spas is the swing check valve which will keep waste water from flowing back into the machine and gunking up your clean clothes. We hope graphic designers wil...

Read…