My children's school start an edible garden program supported and endorsed
by Alice Waters. Naïve about who Alice Waters is, I decided to pick up a
copy of her book, The Art of Simple Food. This food makes me want to be a
better cook or even a cook at all. It is such a practical, informative
cookbook. Treat yourself, and add this book to your collection.
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
and I loved that the press has to keep saying ;wow normal people are against this corruption too'.
Gee, you think??
I always enjoy when projects emerge in which interaction, open source technology and social media is being used in resilient everyday design proposals and appliances. So, here's a great instructable about how to build a garden monitoring system using the open-source electronics prototyping platform Arduino and Twitter. Instructable user natantus had the brilliant idea to combine the "Tweet-a-Watt" power-metering project with the automated garden how-to "Garduino". In this step by step tutorial you'll learn how to build your own garden that you can monitor from work, university or with your smartphone via Twitter.
There's no need to brave the elements this winter. Smart gardeners stay inside, curl up with the seed catalogues and conjure a stunning display for next year
This is another self seeder. It can take over a bit if left unchecked, but if it's restricted within pots and cracks between paving it looks wonderful - the bright green leaves and pretty white flowers really lift the shaded areas... and it's always good to get plants for free!
We have a little project for the summer, renovating this little, old greenhouse which was about to be thrown on the tip. It's a house in the loosest sense of the word - being only about 4 feet wide. We'll try not to lose any of its shabby charm, but if it doesn't get some TLC soon it will fall to pieces.
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I have this beautiful tree in my house,which makes me think I live on a Tree house, its called the Carambola Tree
But now its has got some disease, the fruits are getting spoilt by some white fungus and the tree has some ulcer kind of marks. If any one you are good at gardening, please me know what needs to be done, I have called a couple of gardeners, but living in Hiranandani Gardens all these gardeners are super busy.Check out the pictures below.
Yes! Incredibly, I planted the tree you see behind me in this photo and it actually produced two apples this year.
I was 6 years old and saw an episode of Blue Peter about planting trees. I decided to pot the next apple seed I found indoors, and surprised my family when it grew six inches seemingly overnight. From there it moved to the garden, and despite being re-located three times it has managed to grow to just over 9 feet tall. This year is the first that I've seen it give me... I'm really not an expert but I think they're Braeburn apples. Definitely won't be joining a gardening club, watching Alan Titchmarsh or spending time AFK to sit with my tree any time soon. But it's cool to sit in the warm and know that outside my window is something I planted and it actually did more than just survive. Kudos mother nature.
