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6 Ways to Update Your Garden

March 7, 2018 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

Is your garden looking a little tired? It could simply need a few little tweaks and changes to transform the outdoor space. Breathe new life into your exterior by reading the following six ways to update your garden.

Hanging Baskets

If your garden is lacking personality, you should consider adding hanging baskets into your outdoor area. It’s a stylish and inexpensive way to add more intrigue and color into your garden’s design, as there are so many options and flowers you can incorporate to complement your exterior. For example, you can add a splash of vibrancy by adding various flowers into the hanging baskets, such as petunias, trailing fuchsias, and pansies.

A Garden Pond

Create a tranquil outdoor space by adding a garden pond into your design. It can become a stylish focal point that will attract your guests’ attention, and you will love to listen to the trickle of the pond as you breathe in some fresh air while reading a good book. However, you must ensure you use the correct pond filter system to create a fresh, hygienic pond that will capture your guests and neighbors’ attention for all the right reasons.

A Fresh Coat of Paint

Refresh your garden with a fresh coat of paint. All it might take to transform your fencing or shed is a brand-new color, which could help you create the garden of your dreams. All you need to do is sand down the fence and shed before applying an undercoat or primer before you add the new lick of paint.

Outdoor Lighting

Shine a light on your garden by incorporating stylish outdoor lighting across your exterior. For example, you can refresh your decking by installing some modern LED lighting, or you could hang contemporary or traditional outdoor lanterns, so you can spruce up your space that will make you want to stay outside once the sun goes down.

Colored Planters

If your garden is looking a little on the dull side, you should seriously consider adding some colored planters into your outdoor space. They are a versatile decorative accessory that can be incorporated onto your patio, decking, or on the lawn – and you can even hang them on your fence. By doing so, you can ensure your garden is bursting with color all year long.

A Water Feature

Transform your exterior design by choosing a stylish water feature that will become a much-loved focal point. There are various options and designs to choose from to complement both large and small gardens, and they can quickly update your space to make you want to spend more time outside. For example, you can pick a real stone water feature, water fountain, self-contained water feature, plus more. Not only will it complement your garden’s design, but it can also attract many birds, as they will drop into your garden for a much-needed drink.

Have you got any fantastic tips for updating your garden? Write a comment below.

Teaching Your Children Gardening Can Help Them Grow Too

March 21, 2017 by dadofdivas 1 Comment

Teaching Your Children Gardening Can Help Them Grow Too

Introduction

Dads have fun participating in several activities with their kids while they are growing up. However, one particular activity can be fun, a great lesson about our environment, and assist in the improvement of their motor skills. Gardening will allow children to play in the dirt while learning how to eat right, and the process of photosynthesis while developing their bodies.

Focus On Gardening

In the modern world, children spend several hours consuming different media, and young teenagers spend less than a half-hour doing vigorous physical activities, which may explain why almost 20 percent of kids are considered obese. Thus, it is more important than ever for fathers to teach their children about the importance of other activities such as gardening. Teaching your children when they are young about its benefits will help them get more physical activity in their daily lives, and it will also help them learn about the benefits of healthy food.

Gardening Affects Your Brain Body And Soul

Even the Public Broadcasting Service – or PBS – agrees. There are plenty of ways that gardening can help your little ones. Specifically, children will start getting curious about science issues such as photosynthesis. Learning why plants need the sun to grow will make them more curious about how all the elements work together. But, they will also learn math lessons while measuring how big the plants grow. It will create a lot of excitement.

Another benefit from gardening is how it affects their bodies physically. They will love getting their hands dirty while “playing” in the dirt. The exposure to the outside elements can strengthen your child’s immunity, and overall health, as your child’s body comes into contact with things you won’t find inside the house or school. Additionally, the physical activity will help their little bodies become stronger. Such movements as using a wheelbarrow to move dirt, pulling weeds, and raking are great exercises that will help your child, and your garden, grow stronger.

Getting away from the smartphones, and tablets, will also help your child learn how to communicate, and build teamwork. After all, a successfully created garden requires everyone working together to plant things in such a way that every plant or flower grows well. You child will also benefit from the learned responsibility of taking care of your garden by adding the proper amounts of fertilizer, water and sunlight.

Gardening Fun With Games

As a father, you can even make a game out of it with your children. You can teach them about photosynthesis, the different parts of a plant, and other lessons about plants. By having them participate in these activities, they will actively learn all about the different parts of the photosynthesis that allow plants to grow. There is little doubt that, as they learn, they will become excited, and more eager, to help grow more plants, and food, for the garden.

Conclusion

As you, and your children, begin the process of cultivating your own garden, it will be a fun learning experience for them. They will begin to understand how plants grow through photosynthesis. But, they will also get excited when they realize that they helped in the process of growing the plants, and food, in your garden. It will be a life lesson that they will carry with them for years to come.

#BPop @PlowandHearth Rolling Self-Watering Tomato Planter With Tower #Giveaway

May 4, 2012 by dadofdivas

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Now it’s easier than ever to grow and enjoy luscious, homegrown tomatoes. Our lightweight, portable tomato planter is self-watering with built-in overflow, so your tomatoes always get the proper amount of water. This Tomato Tower provides sturdy steel support for heavy vines. Just add potting soil and Plant Food to the polypropylene tub. Roll the tub wherever it’s convenient or where plants can get the most sun. Tower is rustesistant powder-coated solid steel.

Size
Tub 25-1/2″L x 13-3/4″W x 14″H
Tower 20″L x 10″W x 40″H

My Take on the Product

This is an amazing product that is so easy to use and looks amazing on your own porch(or at least it does mine). What I loved about this was not only the quality of construction, but also the ease in which the product went together and how well the tomato plants are working with the cages. I have tried to grow tomatoes in pots before and it has not been very successful, but with this, at least so far, things are working quite well and the tomatoes seem to like their new home (though it is pretty early to tell what type of crop I will have). The wheels on this make the planter easy to move and even when you have dirt in the planter, it moves well on a smooth service or even on a deck. As you can tell I am quite impressed with this and I have already recommended this to other gardeners that I know as it provides you with both a great planter that is very aesthetically pleasing, but also provides a great home for the tomatoes you want to grow when you don’t have room to grown them in your yard.

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