Protecting Your Garden With A Garden Gnome

Garden gnome is guarding your good work in the garden. If you can deceive one or two pets or strays, that you are in the garden, then they will not enter the garden and dig up the soil and spoil all your hard work. Especially when you spend the morning digging up the soil and then adding the seed or seedlings and the plants are trampled or destroyed by animal paws.

I have even placed a couple of animal statues in the yard and in the garden to further frighten away animals from my garden. I know some of my neighbourhood pets and strays are rather large and I find it difficult to stop them entering the garden if I am not in the vicinity.

My garden gnomes are not just standing around, taking up space. One looks as if he is working in the garden, and is a little life like. The other one looks as if he is about to approach and talk to you. I like the company they keep when I am in the garden. There are times when they are in the way and I have to move them around. They can be a little heavy.

Whenever I show people around the garden, a point of conversation is always the garden gnomes.

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Decorate Your Patio With Patio Planters

Patio planters allow you to grow a variety of flowers, miniature trees and vegetable plants on your patio. If you want to add blooming colour from flowers on your patio, then you should include a number of your favourite flowering plants on patio planters.

If you do not have space in your yard for fruit trees, you can grow miniature or dwarf trees and they often mature and bear fruit earlier, but most do not produce as well overall as standard varieties. The best part about miniature fruit trees, is the fruit can be reached at chest level or lower. Whenever you need a fresh juicy orange, you can reach across your miniature fruit tree.

You can also place a small container garden on your patio. You can grow herbs, vegetables and fruit including tomato, peppers and carrots.

You can even place a small container garden of your favourite fruit and vegetable growing plants taking up little space, including tomato plants, carrots, peppers, radishes, and lettuce. Growing plants that bear fruits over a period of time such as tomatoes and peppers are the best use of space and containers.

Having your own small garden of fresh fruit and vegetables make for effective use of patio planters.

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