Greenhouse Gardening For Food and Fun

Greenhouse gardening is the way to grow plants that are not suited to your climate, or just start your gardening earlier. Whatever shape or size you choose for your building, you create a separate little ecosystem within it. Everything that happens in the green house affects all the plants because you are working in an enclosed space, therefore it is a more intense way of gardening.

Kits and complete greenhouses are plentiful, from a wide variety of suppliers. Gardening supply businesses, lumber yards, hardware stores, and most large chain stores have stock available. If you are so inclined, there is much to be said for building your own greenhouse. An idea to simplify the task of this do-it-yourself project, is to buy the frame only, of a garden shed package, Doing this saves having to cut all the angles involved in building your own rafters and framing a doorway, speeding the process up. From there, you can use your own materials such as windows you have collected, and design your ventilation options according to your own preferences.

The ecosystem in the greenhouse is created with the usual components of gardening, soil, water, sunshine, and fresh air. Soil needs to be fibre rich so the seeds or seedlings can set roots easily. Well-rotted manure is a good base to start with if it is available. You will have to water everything regularly, whether it rains or not.

Fresh air, or air circulation, in the greenhouse, is very important to your gardening, and can be provided in two ways. If you can situate the greenhouse to take advantage of natural winds, and have adequate openings for ventilation, the air circulation may be adequate. Ventilation will improve with the use of one or more fans in the greenhouse. Your gardening experience will not be very successful if the temperature and humidity are allowed to spike throughout the hot days of summer. They need to be monitored so you know what is happening. Temperature and humidity can be supervised with a relatively inexpensive monitoring system that allows a sensor in the greenhouse to transmit to a receiver in your house. This system also allows you to know when your gardening efforts of the season will begin to need frost protection. A small heater with a fan, or the fan you have already been using with a heat source of some type, will do the job.

One word of caution regarding the use of any chemicals in the greenhouse: be very careful. All the plants will be affected by any chemical used because they are enclosed. This issue provides all the more reason to practice organic gardening and not use any chemicals.

Greenhouse gardening is a good way to experiment with plants that are not native to your climate. Because you control the environment, you can grow most anything you want.

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Unique Gardening Tools to Improve Your Garden

Innovative garden tools for the outdoor garden that make gardening easier for the gardening enthusiast are always being invented. One of the newest gardening tools that is presently experiencing rising popularity is a Topsy Turvy hanging tomato planter. Using a Topsy Turvy hanging tomato planter allows you to grow your own juicy tomatoes much easier, since the plant grows upside down. Many upside down containers come with detailed instructions to make growing your tomatoes very easy. Hanging tomato planters that grow plants upright can also be found at your local home improvement store.

One nice thing about a hanging tomato planter is that it helps gardeners to more easily harvest their tomatoes than they would for a traditionally grown tomato bush. The benefit of a hanging tomato planter goes further than ergonomics though; this is a gardening tool that also permits people to grow tomatoes in confined spaces. You will not need a large garden when you put this gardening tool to work. The ability to grow tasty tomatoes in a hanging container spans from homes with a large yard to apartments with no yard. A Topsy Turvy hanging tomato planter can be hung on a small porch in a sunny spot and yield tomatoes as fabulous as those growing in a flourishing garden.

Another innovative gardening tool that is receiving rave reviews is the EasyBloom garden sensor. Many people who really love their plants have taken to using a EasyBloom garden sensor to know exactly what their plants require. A EasyBloom garden sensor has two prongs that are placed into the ground where you are planning on placing a plant or tree. While the plant sensor is kept in place for 24 hours, it then goes to work to track conditions like the amount of sunlight, temperature, and humidity in the soil.

After the 24 hour period is done, the EasyBloom garden sensor is then plugged into a computer which takes you to a website that gives you the results of what your plant may need to thrive. The information the plant sensor has gathered will be presented to you. What you can learn from this is how to select the right plants for that particular area of your garden. Additionally, a plant sensor can be used to diagnose issues with plants that are already planted in your yard. Utilizing the plant sensor in this situation may alert you to deficiencies the plant is experiencing and guide you to correcting the problem.

What the EasyBloom garden sensor does not do is advise gardeners of whether or not a certain plant is best suited for a particular planting zone. It also cannot determine the pH levels in soil, nor can it save data once the data has been collected by the website. As technology improves, it is likely that the EasyBloom garden sensor device will improve over time, allowing users the ability to retain the data which has been collected.

Superior hand garden tools should make gardening chores easier for gardeners. That's exactly what these two unique gardening tools accomplish. Test out a Topsy Turvy hanging tomato planter or EasyBloom garden sensor in your yard this year and you will undoubtedly experience easier growing!

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