A few friends of mine have liked some of the things I have designed in my garden, here are a few useful ideas to get your garden moving along well whether you want to plant vegetables or flowers these few ideas have helped my garden work better.
Raised beds - Are a brilliant way of making sure that you have a good weed free patch of ground to work in. If the land that you have are about to start producing in is full of rubble and weeds. How I would create the bed would be to put plastic sheeting over its base to stop weeds coming up through into your delicate new plants (I would ensure that you spike holes into the plastic to allow for drainage). Then I would lay cardboard over the top of this to ensure that the roots don’t dry out follow this with some weed free soil use a coarse garden sieve to take out bits of weed and then finally use some top soil mixed with a good amount of compost.
Pots - If you don’t have a lot of room use differing heights of pots to give you space ready for your vegetables, herbs or flowers. Pots are brilliant because each one has weed free compost and can be moved around reasonable well depending on weight into the sunlight. It seems to have become quite fashionable to use walls to hang plants from so that you are also utilising vertical space.
Old windows - If you can get your hands on some old window frames, they can readily be made into mini greenhouses for your newly forming plants to keep the warmth in, earlier in the season. Cold frames are often along the edge of a south facing building where the plants can get the most benefit from the sun, just make sure you keep them watered.
Compost bin - For all of your uncooked vegetable scraps in the kitchen and lawn trimmings find an area in the garden where you can either set up a ready made compost bin from your local garden centre or create something for it to break down in leaving you with copious quantities of lovely home made fertiliser.
Water butt - As most of us have our water metered its worth making the most out of the free rain we get a large amount of for most of the year. Water barrels are a brilliant way of storing water, they are usually connected to the vertical pipe thats comes off the roof guttering.
Window sills - If you live in a flat you can still get the most out of using pots by getting a guard created and placing them on the windowsill. Herbs are brilliant for this allowing you to have fresh products ready when you are working in the kitchen.
Sunlight - Most importantly make sure that your plants are in the lightest area of the house (obviously use a bit of common sense here and check out what it is that the plant you are growing likes best). The south side of a house is the best for most plants so see if you can get whatever you want to grow into that side of the house. (Don’t get me wrong most plants will grow wherever you put them, they normally just do better the more sunshine they get.)
I hope you will find these ideas useful, they have worked well in my garden. Its great getting stuck into this kind of work and at the end you can sit back on a nice bit of resin weave garden furniture and enjoy your hard work.
If you are looking for Resin Weave Garden Furniture check out Whitehall Garden Centre Bristol, I found them really helpful and got me what I needed really quickly.
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