Dirt vs Clay: What is the difference between Diatomaceous Earth and Bentonite Clay? Let's go over the pros and cons of each!
Things just fly below your radar most of the time. Let's face it, we all only have so much attention
Let’s see, what’s the last thing you spent $300 on? DMV renewal fees? A new laptop? Rent? We live in a culture where a lot of us subsist on very little, but we’re trained by those who have a lot of money to think less of what we do have. But it’s amazing what you can do with $300 if you have the creativity and determination to make something incredible happen.
How to Build Dirt Cheap Houses: Ever wonder how to build a simple home for very little money, without going into debt? The key is to use low-cost, locally available natural materials such earth, small diameter wood and straw to keep expenses to a minimum. The real fun is incorpora…
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Beautiful walkways don't have to cost a fortune. Imagination coupled with ordinary materials help create pretty and durable alternatives. Cheap walkway ideas include wood, stones and gravel.
Clay goes through an incredible journey as it's transformed into pottery. Here are the 8 amazing stages of clay that it goes through on route
Imagen 5 de 24 de la galería de Arte y Arquitectura: Decay / Matthias Haker. © Matthias Haker
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It's a dirty job but teaching Soils in the Environment is a fun & engaging science unit filled with activities your students will love.
How to landscape a steep slope affordably, turning it into a beautiful and productive permaculture garden with goats, chooks, fruit and nut trees.
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Soak ramps in cold water before using to loosen dirt and the outer skin of the bulbs.
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Swales are ditches dug on contour with the removed dirt placed on the downside slope of the ditch to form a berm. Water will get caught in the ditch and slowly soak into the ground. All sorts of pl…
Since last week, when I first saw this garden, below, I've been thinking about how simply designed, within a framework of total design, by someone with a wisdom of Nature, time across historical perspective, aesthetics, grief, continents, the sky, tilt of the Earth, seasons, meals, human foot, cars, tractors, laughter, guests, owner/s, caretaker/s, solitude, children, galas, scent, sound, wheelbarrows, terra cotta, gravel, Tara Turf, human hands, mending of spirit, abiding, atonement. For starters. Nothing major has been done, above, or every element is minutely chosen. . Which camp are you in? . My camp is organic design. Everything minutely chosen to look like nothing major has been done. . Design to feed Nature, and Spirit. . As Bunny Mellon designed, "Don't let it show." . Garden & Be Well, XO Tara . Can you guess which country this garden is in? Era? More signs of a good garden. . We can visit this garden, and spend the night, it's in Provence, a B&B, Chateau Talaud. . This, and more, on my Pinterest board. . Organic design has no personal ego, yet total ego in belief. More than designing a place of abiding & atonement, it is a sacrament. . Read a title, years ago, creating simplicity in organic design, "The Sacred and The Profane."
Jeff Epping, director of horticulture at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, said the gardens established a gravel garden along with a rain garden just west of the herb garden in 2010 as part of an effort in to include components of sustainability. Gravel gardens were pioneered in Germany and developed in the U.S. by Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial Farm in Burlington. The gardens, once established, will need very few resources: no weeding, no watering, and no fertilizing. Diblik helped build the Olbrich gravel garden, topping off existing soil with four to five inches of washed quartzite gravel which doesn't break down quickly like limestone does, preventing weed seed germination. Epping said it was key to choose drought-resistant plants, and space them closer. "You want them to mass up and grow together to create a solid plant bed," said Epping of the process that will take about three years. The only maintenance is to keep organic matter from building up in the garden. Plants Epping and Diblik chose for this garden include the grasses prairie dropseed and purple love grass, Tennessee coneflower, goldenrod and bee balm.' We discovered that elusive monarch we had sighted in the herb garden had preceded us to the gravel garden displaying native plants. The monarch was discovered resting on Culver's root. Despite the abundance of nectar plants, we spotted only this one lone monarch during our stroll through the gardens, not very encouraging for those of us hoping to help prevent continued declines in their numbers due to loss of preferred habitat. Adirondack chairs provide a welcoming spot to rest and observe the activity of busy pollinators in the garden of native plants. This is a photo of the gravel garden when I visited the gardens on a Master Garener bus trip last summer. earlier in the seasonwith grasses playing a more prominent role.
