When you begin to garden for yourself you quickly realize that you need high quality tools. Cheap tools just don’t last.
Buy the best garden tools and garden equipment you can afford and they’ll serve their purpose for years.
You should also consider a garden cart! Having your own cart makes hauling mulch, fertilizer and flats of flowers so much easier.
And fun!
dog in garden cart
Around these parts, the plant nurseries that carry indigenous plants are hard to find.
But our friends down under don’t have that issue. They can just visit Bell’s Beach Nursery for plants that grow well in their region.
Bells is open to the public and is in the Victoria’s Surf Coast area, close to Bells Beach (hence the name!) There you’ll meander amongst plants (flowers, herbs, trees and more) that are native to Australia (and the Surf Coast region) thereby making certain that the plants you choose for your own home will flourish.
There’s even a cafe on the grounds! How cool is that?
I used to have a real vegetable garden in the back yard. I grew everything under the sun (or so it seemed). I grew the requisite tomatoes and peppers, squashes and flowers and even peanuts one year.
That garden was kept when I still had kiddos at home. When I finally gave up the formal vegetable garden, I gifted my big old honkin’ tiller to my Dad.
He loves it and still uses it to this day.
Whenever I visit, I’m blown away by his garden, the lushness, the vitality and it makes me want to squeeze time into my busy day to grow food, and flowers, and ornamentals.
Only the area where the garden once was, and where water lines are run to, is now overrun with grasses and weeds (I live in the country.)
First things first. In order to start my own garden up again, I need a new tiller.
Tillers have come a long way since that big monstrosity I once had. Today’s garden tillers range from small lightweight models that anyone can handle, to big rototillers made for big jobs (big gardens). You can even find electric models! Perfect for folks that have trouble cranking the gas variety. There’s front tines and rear tines and lots of choices.
If you’re tillerless like me, and in the market, you’ll need to do your homework to find the best tiller for you and your situation. Learn more about garden tillers at BestGardenTillers.com
potatoes
Many a budding photographer’s dream site will include not only style and functionality but a way to showcase their photos.
One way to do this is through custom work (all my sites are custom) OR you can now find wordpress gallery themes that work great to help showcase and even sell your photos.
You get a choice of themes AND styles as well as options like slideshows, tiles or the normal ‘blog’ appearance. The addition of paypal buttons (which works with these themes by the way) is a great way to sell your own photos and make some ‘net income.
These new themes have built in gallery management (way easier than DIY and cheaper than hiring it done), built in e-commerce (it’s not Ascender but it’s great for a beginner), IPhone and Ipad functionality, albums and much more. So the next time you get a great idea and decide to start a new site or blog, consider these wordpress gallery themes for your new site!
You may also like to check out this site with MORE Wordpress photography themes!
