Space-Saving Bottle Garden

This is an amazing way to plant a garden, be it for flowers, veggies or herbs in a minimal amount of space, recycling plastic bottles. The videos are a bit long but you can skip through it.

The first video introduces the concept of a bottle garden, while the second video is a how-to on building your own. If you have all the materials I bet you could have a bottle garden built in an hour or two!

Bottle Garden Concept:

Bottle Garden Tutorial:

Way cool, compact, and environmentally friendly! Get to it!

What to Plant Now in Pikesville

    Your Personalized Planting Reminders

Here are the planting reminders for your location for the next two weeks

  

Sow under cover or indoors: Basil Pumpkin Sow outdoors or plant out: Apple (Dwarf) Beans (Bush Snap) Beet Blackberry Blueberry Carrot Corn Cucumber Lettuce (Leaf) Onion Peas Pepper Potatoes (Maincrop) Radish Raspberry Rhubarb Strawberry Tomato (Large) Turnip Watermelon Zucchini

Stingy Solutions!

I love to troll the aisles at Home Depot or Lowes to get ideas for re-purposing products for garden uses.


Last year I discovered galvanized ladder wire/mesh used to lay out cinder blocks, which is a perfect adaptation for creating row covers!

So you want this...

 ...without paying for this:
Online: $29 for 6, plus S&H






 

At Home Depot ~$2 each !!

You can bend them into any shape, cut them with wire cutters, and still afford the cover fabric!
Look for them in any bog box store with building supplies, or even online.

So look for supplies from roofing, masonry and other departments; like this galvanized mud pan for $8.61. What a fabulous modern window planter!

Civic Project - Levindale Auxiliary Sensory Garden

Our club's 2015 civic project will be to supply and plant the raised bed in the Levindale Auxiliary Sensory Garden located at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital 

The goal is to have scent, touch, and visual beauty.
As you can see from the photo below circled in red, it is a small enough bed !

Stay tuned to see the after-pictures once we have completed the planting!