Improving Your Container Gardens With Crop Rotation

To some people, crop rotation for container gardening, will not work. They point out that useful nutrients in the soil break down more and more each year, so that even after adding organic fertilizers and the rotation of crops, there is less food available as the same soil is used year after year.

One of the key requirements for quality soil is that it can hold air and allow room for the roots to breathe, resulting in better drainage. But, this ability of the soil also diminishes each year.

Even if you blend some fresh soil, by the end of the second year of the original soil, it would have lost all its capacity, and the new earth will be half incapacitated and almost useless.

By the third year, naysayers warn, the gardener will probably see a significant drop in production and perhaps even the deterioration of the health of their container plants.

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Creating A Small Garden With Square Foot Gardening

Square foot gardening is a concept involving the creation of a new raised bed on top of available space. The soil needs to be at least 12 inches deep, divided into squares of one foot each.

You can create the raised bed in a large cardboard box with the bottom removed, or at least, some form of low box, in order to include the 12-inch deep soil.

If you have an available space measuring four feet by four feet, for example, you divide it into 16 one-foot squares, separate each square with a kind of slat or raised the length of the string, so you can distinguish them as the plants grow and get bushy. A different plant would grow in each square.

Using this method means that all the plants are pretty available, so weeding, pruning, and even composting is easy to achieve.

You always construct the raised bed, so you never exceed half a crooked row of plants, when watering or maintaining the garden. For example, a four-foot square garden box should be accessible from all sides

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Inviting More Birds With Decorative Bird Feeders

Decorative bird feeders are available at www.birdwatchers.com. Some of the birdhouses include a rustic, country feel to match the decor of your garden, or you can choose from designs that require birds to eat upside down.

If you purchase one of these special birdfeeders, then instructions for hanging the decorative birdhouses are included, and more ideas for decorations, so you can change the look of your garden when you want.

Another site is Bird Sanctum. It has some great feeders for you to choose from, including the gazebo-style bird feeders, as well as squirrel-proof feeders. There are also bird baths, heated baths, and bird identifier tools to find out which birds are visiting your yard.

Other online shopping sites like www.amazon.com or www.overstock.com allow you to purchase decorative bird feeders, and there are decorations on the site that compliment a range of garden styles (for example: Floral and even athletic team design). With these sites, you can read user reviews, before you make a purchasing decision.

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