The following guest article is full of tips for selecting the best climbing plants for garden structures. It not only describes the correct climbing plants (like clematis, wisteria,and climbing roses) for a trellis, arbors, and a pergola – it also teaches how to train them to climb these garden structures.

How to Match Your Climbing Plants to Your Structures

 

Picking A Structure For Your Plants to Climb

Now, let’s begin with your structure. On the one hand, you can stop by the nursery and grab a three foot high wire trellis for very little money. On the other hand, you can build (or have someone build) a 10 x 15 foot pergola, with a lot more time and money involved. Then there’s everything inbetween (and, of course, you have to be thinking about what you’re going to grow on these things).

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Today’s guest article relates the problems most DIY gardeners encounter when they attempt a build-from-scratch project. Fortunately, the author found and shares a solution. Even though there is a commercial connection here, the article still offers some sound advice.

Build Your Personal Shed – A “Do It Yourself” Goal Come Correct!

Is it time to build your own shed? Well I can talk from experience when I say yes – the problem was that I did not have a clue where to begin, so I flew by the seat of my pants and it ended up costing me big time. I was spending money hand over fist and making too many visits to the supply store because my plans would change so frequently.

I was wasting materials and, in a few cases, I had the incorrect materials to begin with because I did not have a clear idea what the final project would even look like. I never did finish the first project, and listen to me when I tell you that I was well out of code and way in the red from where I started. I finally tore it down! But then I found out something that actually made a difference! Let me share with you something that I didn’t even know existed…complete plans that you can purchase online that will enable you to build your own shed like a pro! Read the rest of this entry »

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Strictly speaking, honey bees are not pets. But they are so industrious and remarkably tolerant that many gardeners would disagree. Even though today’s guest article is a bit stiff in its style, it offers some excellent tips for keeping bees, especially for the beginning gardener.

Beekeeping For Beginners – Methods To Start Beekeeping

The pastime of beekeeping is quickly becoming one of the top pastimes for folks from different walks of life. Even if the entire idea of keeping bees in your yard may seem somewhat challenging at the outset, any rookie beekeeper can easily prevail over that with a little bit of help and guidance. If you would like to know more on how one could start beekeeping, then this short article will help you along the way. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today’s guest article about the honey bee queen will be a great help to the amateur beekeeper gardener. According to the article, the lives of all bees in the hive center around and are focused on honey bee queens – both old and new queen bees.

The Queen Bee

The survival of a colony of bees living in a bee hive really relies on the queen bee. Without a queen bee the hive would ultimately die. The hive’s queen is the only female bee in the hive that has completely developed reproductive organs. The queen isn’t just in charge of the hive. Her very purpose is to lay eggs that will develop into bees that will fill various duties inside the hive.

The queen bee is determined whilst the bee is still in its larval phase. The larvae that have been put aside as possible queens are given more royal jelly. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bees are in crisis because of what is called Colony Colapse Disorder. According to a New York Times article, “a fungus tag-teaming with a virus have apparently interacted to cause the problem.” Our home gardens can be a wonderful, safe, and healthy habitat for honey bees to re-establish themselves. The guest article for today offers some tips for building a beehive from scratch. If your community zoning allows this, please consider a beehive. Our local farmers (and bees) will thank us!

Ways to Build A Beehive – 6 Ideas

As you start beekeeping, there are particular items that are necessary. The majority of of these, you’ll have to buy, but with regards to the beehive itself, you’ve got an option. You can buy one (either ready assembled or as a flat pack for self assembly). But you, likewise, have the alternative of constructing your very own beehive.

Clearly, this would not be for everyone. You do need to have a particular degree of fundamental skills to be able to build a beehive. But you surely don’t need to be a skilled carpenter – it is surprisingly easy to construct your own beehive if you have a very good set of plans and comply with some basic rules.

So, if you’d like to give it a go, listed here are a few tips on the way to construct your own beehive, and help to ensure that it turns out as you hoped – well-built, nice-looking, and durable. Read the rest of this entry »

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