In areas of the world which have been affected by natural disasters, extreme poverty, droughts, wars and other circumstances, people are at risk of starvation due to lack of food and water. There are many international charities who strive to bring medical aid, water and food delivery to these struggling communities. With their help, people
I didn’t have much outdoor space for growing food this year but I spotted these two self-seeded young trees and got the idea of using them as bean trellises: It’s a bit difficult the see the bean plants climbing up the stems, but you can tell that there’s a bean plant in there somewhere because
It’s time for another collection of raised bed designs from around the world. The kitchen gardeners out there are really creative when it comes to shapes and materials used. Although many types of raised bed kits for gardens are available in shops you might get inspired to construct your very own based on the gallery
Phew! The system has finally been set up and the last parts added. Now it’s time to tweak, like for instance reducing noise. Our system is sitting in the corner of our living room so we want it to be as quiet as possible. If it was placed in a garage or greenhouse noise wouldn’t
It’s not Friday yet, but this is just too funny 😉 This is the best performing Victory Garden I’ve ever seen: (found it on sacramentogardening.blogspot.com…)
In this project we’re combining traditional fish keeping in an aquarium, and growing plants with the roots submerged in the same water as the fish live in. The question to answer next is – what is the best water pH value to aim for? Depending on the genus and species of the fish they’ll prefer
If you want to grow climbing beans or cucumbers this year you might want to check out my ebook about trellises, that I’m giving away for free. It’s 22 pages with a lot of pictures to get ideas from – just check out the right sidebar to find the sign up form. In case you’re
When you have decided that you want your own raised beds, you need to figure out how to build them. There are a lot of ways to do this and this post will try to give you some ideas by showing some of the very different ways people have raised their beds up above ground
Last time I wrote about building a good bean trellis I only posted a drawing. Now I took the time to actually build it as you can see in these pictures. Each bean plant has its own bamboo stick to climb. Hopefully the beans will hang down on the outside of the construction because the
It sure is an easy way to build a trellis for beans. You just put a stick horizontally in the top and tie everything together in the joints. You let each of the 10 plants run up each bamboo stick and it will soon look like this: The problem is that the beans are hanging
