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By SlowWorm

 The amount of space you have available to you will greatly influence your type and style of garden. If you live in a rural area and are lucky enough to have a large garden you will be able to divide up the space and create different areas for different types of garden. If on the other hand you live in a city centre and only have a small area, then your choices are greatly reduced.

Another point to consider is the amount of free time you have available to maintain your garden. If you have a demanding job or a large family to take care off you may find that trying to cope with a large intricate garden to much to cope with. Large flower gardens for instance can be very time consuming to maintain and to keep them looking their best, as many flowering plants need continual dead-heading to prolong their flowering period.

Your fitness level may also influence the type and style of your garden. If you have heart problems or breathing difficulties for instance, you probably wouldn’t want to be digging over a large vegetable plot each year. If you are confined to a wheel chair or suffer with back problems then you may need to consider having raised beds that you can reach easily.

One other factor you may want to consider is the actual purpose of the garden?

Do you want to attract wildlife?

Create a space for entertaining friends and family?

Have a safe area for your children to play?

A peaceful place to relax?

Create a productive garden to feed the family?

When thinking about the style of your garden style remember that it is possible to incorporate different garden types into one garden. Many vegetables have attractive foliage and can be grown in amongst your ornamental plants. In fact organic gardeners will often plant certain ornamentals in their vegetable plots in order to attract pests away from their vegetable crops.

In future articles well take a look at 6 of the most common styles:

Organic Garden

Raised Garden

Container Garden

Formal Garden

Wildlife Garden

Water Garden

By considering these points and deciding what you want to use the garden for you will hopefully avoid starting something that you will later regret.

Written by Paul Stone owner of

UK Gardening Community

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Guide To Basic Container Gardening
By Benjamin Brook

 Container gardening can be very convenient for individuals with minimal space in their homes or those who wish to have plants inside their homes. Container gardening enables the gardener to bring in a splash of color to their homes. Compared to single pots, most containers used in container gardening are relatively large and can contain several plants of the same species or of different species.

Choosing A Container For You Garden

One thing that you should consider when choosing a container is the kind of plant you wish to put in the container. Some vegetables require deeper pots for their roots to burrow into while others do not require as much space. Container gardening mediums vary from containers such as plastic pots, terracotta containers and wooden boxes.

Plastic containers for container gardening tend to discolor in time and may also eventually be susceptible to cracks and deterioration. Unglazed terracotta containers will dry up eventually and may be prone to breakage as well as being heavy to cart around. Glazed terracotta containers are ideal since the glaze seals them and protect them from drying up. Wooden containers are prone to rot although choosing wood that is not susceptible to rotting is an option.

One advantage of wooden containers for container gardening is that these can be made to fit the specifications of the area you wish to put your plants in. You must bear in mind that treated wood that you will use for container gardening can affect your plants so ask what chemicals were used to treat the lumber before you buy.

Containers used for container gardening must also have a wide opening for better plant growth. The containers must also have appropriate drainage to prevent root rot and other root damage. For containers with big drainage holes, you can line the bottom inside part of the container with news paper to prevent soil loss.

Most container gardening are for indoors plants so it is best to consider the areas where they are placed. Sunlight is one thing to consider as well as the temperature in the area. Some plants need more sunlight than others so make it a point to ask or find out what kind of care your plants need.

Container gardening can be especially satisfying when you plant herbs or vegetables that you place in your kitchen for fresh use when you are cooking. Live plants can also bring color to any area of your home.

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Getting Your Garden Ready For Planting And What You Need To Know
By Vin DeWolfe

 First things first, pick out the right spot for the garden plot. Plants all possess their own brightness preferences, but as a general rule, they need some daily sun. Vegetable plots do better in full sun while some flowers and other plants favor shade. Sun loving plantlife command a minimum of six hours and sooner 8 or more hours of sunlight per day. Scout your yard for a sunny day and check what areas get the most sun. Avoid areas that are shadowed by houses or other foliage for long time periods.

The location your garden will grow best also depends on the soil. A clay dirt with little drainage or a dry sandlike soil are less inclined to produce than a robust, black, considerably drained earth. Check your location and check the character of the earth before strating. Test kits are easily found at yard and garden depots. If you find pitiful circumstances, debate improving the earth or fill containers with better soil and attempt raised bed gardening.

Once you’ve picked the area, it’s time to get to work. First, neaten the spot. Weeds and their roots ought be dispatched from your new garden plot. Pull them, dig them up, whatever you need to do to remove them completely. All the weeds you pick should be added to a compost heap. Even if you don’t have a compost pile, start one! The gains to your garden are wonderful. The heat from the cooking compost will off the weed seeds, making them unable to reproduce.

Later, as they break down, they develop into an organic fertilizer that you can use on all of your plants. Dead leaves, and old discards from the garden can also be added back into the compost as the vegetation grows. This way, the garden almost feeds itself.

The soil in your garden plot requires to be loosened before you plant. The total area should be dug to a depth of several inches. Spade fulls of earth get turned over and all the clods should be broken up. Use a rake to help break up the soil and even out the surface. Keep doing this until the garden plot is altogether free of weeds, stones, sticks and debris. This takes a bit of time, but it’s considerably worth it. The fewer weeds that stay, the easier time your seedlings will have in getting started. likewise, the more effective job you do now in removing weeds and other undesirable plants, the lighter weeding will be later on.

Now that the soil is groomed, it’s time to plan the layout of your garden. Even in conventional garden bed planting, there are variants. Some folks like to sow their seeds in neat, long courses. Others choose tightly planted, shorter rows arranged in groups. Either way, lay out how you want the garden to be; spuds here, onions there, a row of carrots over there, etc. Draw it out on a paper or mark it out right on the garden plot.

It’s not all about how you want the garden to look though. Garden plants, particularly vegetables, develop in a potpourri of sizes, heights and widths. Some plants like squash and pumpkin are vines that spread in all directions and overtake adjacent plants. Corn can get very tall and shade out shorter plants next to them. These are just two cases, but you get the idea. In order for your garden plants to all get along, they must to be sown so their compatible.

The hardiness zone you live in will also influence what types of things you can raise. Some plants need more sunshine, higher or lower temperatures or more rainfall than your zone grants. Check your hardiness zone and purchase plants that are known to produce within it. Seed packages and seed plants typically will have a label telling the hardiness zone right for them.

When buying your seeds or spouts, keep in mind the rest of your garden design and seek out the correct plants. Ask questions at the home & garden center and do your research. A well designed garden truly is a thing of splendor.

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