Archive for March, 2009

Recycle an Old Window into a Mini Greenhouse

Spring is in the air and it is time to get started on planting your seedlings for the upcomming Spring and Summer Gardening season.

Here at Landscape Living we have posted a few garden articles on adding a greenhouse to your backyard. But what if you do not have the space or the economic funds to build a full size greenhouse in your backyard ?

Here is an excellent alternative to building a full size greenhouse. Why not try this method of building a Mini Greenhouse using an old window or plexiglass and some plywood for a base.

Using this method you will be well on your way to getting a head start on planting for the gardening season.

clipped from lifehacker.com

Not all of us can devote the money or space to a full-size greenhouse, but
anyone can get a head start on our spring planting with a mini greenhouse.

Instructables user kcrox1017 posts simple plans for a mini greenhouse will help
you protect your seedlings from any unexpected cold snaps, and start growing
them ahead of mother nature's schedule. While he used an old window, with a
little extra tweaking, you can use a sheet of scrap glass or acrylic instead. If
you start your seedlings in href="http://lifehacker.com/software/diy/diy-newspaper-seedling-pots-252764.php">biodegradable
newspaper starter pots, you can take them and plant them directly after
they've sprouted.

Goodbye first lawn, hello first garden

Michelle Obama has really added a new freshness to the White House atmousphere. Imagine adding a organic vegetable garden to the south lawn of the White House. This could start a whole new movement of families getting together and breaking ground in thier own backyards to grow healthy vegetables to put on the family dinner table. Heck if this keeps up hopefully we can grow a healthy economy while we are at it.

clipped from seattletimes.nwsource.com

First lady Michelle Obama, right and Chef Sam Kass, left, take part in the groundbreaking of the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House March 20.

BOSTON — You have to admit that this gives new meaning to the idea of a
"shovel-ready project." There are now 1,100 square feet on the South Lawn of the
White House being transformed into a kitchen garden. If Americans follow the
first family's lead, the seed pack will become the new stimulus package. At
least we'll have something to do with those pitchforks after the AIG bonus
babies surrender their money.

What Michelle and the kids and the crew did the other day was to drive a shovel right into the heart of that American icon: the lawn. They literally took the most pampered lawn in America, dumped it in the wheel barrel and carted it away. All that was missing was a chorus of "This lawn is your lawn."

This may be a fertile time for change

If we settle into a view of home as a place we nurture ourselves, we may have a
grass-roots anti-grass movement.