Preventing Garden Pests From Overtaking Your Garden

Garden pests can devour the growing plants in your garden. Some of these pests will eat everything, even the roots in the soil. There are preventative measures you can take to stop these pests eating all your hard work.

If you have squirrels and birds feeding on your garden produce, then you can place feeders away from the garden, somewhere else in your yard, high up on trees, for them to feed to their hearts content. You may even place a bird bath underneath the trees, to make the areas near the feeders as hospitable as possible, to keep them away from your garden.

Placing mulch on the soil surrounding growing vegetable plants, will help prevent snails, slugs and even rodents from reaching the plants in your garden. Taking these measures will help prevent garden pests overtaking your garden.

As you can see, there are many ways to keep pests out of your garden, so that you are rewarded with produce for your effort.

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A Better Hideaway With Garden Ponds

Garden ponds add a little mystery to the garden. Most gardens are full of growing plants with one or two garden gnomes. Some may have a small table top fountain, with water splashing about.

More people these days, like to include a little hideaway pond with fish and living water plants, to relax on a Sunday afternoon. Away from phones and bad news. There is always something relaxing about watching fish swim around your pond.

One of the major decisions you need to make about a new pond, is where in your garden do you want to install it? Will you install it yourself, or arrange for a landscaping company to install it for you? Do you want to include fish and live water plants?

There are companies who will install a garden pond for you and even supply the water plants and fish. This may cut the time you need for installation and you can get back to the installation company if there are any problems.

This solution may be more convenient for many people, as you may not have the time or the confidence to ensure your pond is perfect and there are no long term maintenance problems.

To ensure you receive good service, get a number of quotes from different companies, before you make a final decision. You may also ask your friends if they had a pond installed in their garden and if they were happy with the installation company.

You may even ask the installer for advice. Most often, the installation company is a landscaping business, so you may get landscaping advice about where you should place your pond.

Getting ideas may be your perfect way to create your hideaway with garden ponds.

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Decorating Your Yard With Concrete Lawn Ornaments

Concrete lawn ornaments help to improve the landscape around your yard. You may have a few miniature fruit trees, a small organic garden and even a stone walkway. But placing an ancient Greek statue, or a water fountain adds an artistic statement to your yard. You want to say to the visitor of your home, you like to decorate your yard with art.

Decorating your yard and decorating your home with art, indicates you love your home sweet home. You are not taking your home for granted, you like to state this is where you live and the yard is part of you. By placing artistic ornaments around your yard, you are highlighting areas of your yard.

For example, you may look at placing an ancient Greek statue inside your garden, you may even place statues of dogs around your yard, to scare strays away from your yard, as they may think the competition is too much in this yard. The ornaments highlight your garden and your yard, drawing the eye to interesting parts of your yard.

Bird baths are another option for concrete lawn ornaments, to attract birds to your backyard. You may have some birdfeeders near trees, but having a bird bath close to your garden, adds another dimension to your backyard.

You may not have room for a large Greek statue or a Pagoda to guard your garden, but you can always decorate your garden with a bird bath. You may even place a water fountain nearby, to keep the birds entertained.

Then you can sit in an area where you cannot be seen by the birds, under the shade and be entertained by the variety of birds coming to your backyard, fascinated by your concrete lawn ornaments.

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