Backyard Ideas

Build a homemade hydroponic system

Interested in setting up a homemade hydroponic system?

For those don’t know, hydroponics is the system in which plants are grown without soil which seems amazing but in actual fact hydroponics allows plants to be grown faster and easier. In hydroponics, plants are grown in a solution consisting of water and nutrients required for a particular plant, or within a system that uses a substrate or growing mix medium. There are several hydroponics techniques and systems that exist for producing plant crops.

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August 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Gardening | No Comments

Wrought Iron Gate Design

For ideas on wrought iron gate design read on …

In many ways, I am a good designer, but one thing holds me back from ever being great: I have no sense of dimension. Whenever I imagine a space that I have to layout, it becomes much larger than it actually is in my imagination. My garden was no exception. I dreamed about it night after night as winter slowly turned to spring. I knew that I would make it great this year. I would design a path, install a waterfall, grow several species of rare and exotic flowers –the works.
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August 21st, 2008 | Posted in wrought iron accessories, Backyard design | No Comments