A few friends of mine have liked some of the things I have created in my plot, here are a few useful ideas to get your garden ticking along well whether you want to plant vegetables or flowers these few thoughts have helped my garden work much more efficiently.

Raised beds – Are a great way of ensuring that you have a decent weed free patch of ground to work in. If the land that you have are about to start producing in is full of rubble and weeds. How I would start the bed would be to put plastic sheeting along its base to stop weeds coming up through into your delicate new plants (I would ensure that you spike holes into the plastic to allow for drainage). Then I would lay cardboard over the top of this to ensure that the roots don’t dry out follow this with some weed free soil use a coarse garden sieve to take out bits of weed and then finally use some top soil mixed with a decent amount of compost.

Pots – If you don’t have a lot of room use varying heights of pots to give you space ready for your vegetables, herbs or flowers. Pots are brilliant because each one has weed free compost and can be moved around reasonable well depending on weight into the sunlight. It seems to have become fairly fashionable to use walls to hang plants from so that you are also using vertical space.

Old windows – If you can get your hands on some old window frames, they can quite easily be made into mini greenhouses for your newly forming plants to keep the warmth in, earlier in the season. Cold frames are frequently along the edge of a south facing structure where the plants can get the most benefit from the sun, just make sure you keep them watered.

Compost bin – For all of your uncooked vegetable scraps in the kitchen and lawn trimmings find an area in the garden where you can either set up a ready made compost bin from your local garden centre or make up something for it to break down in leaving you with copious quantities of lovely home made fertiliser.

Water butt – As most of us have our water metered its worth making the most out of the free rain we get a large amount of for most of the year. Water barrels are a great way of storing water, they are usually connected to the down pipe thats comes off the roof guttering.

Window sills – If you live in a flat you can still get the most out of using pots by getting a guard made up and placing them on the windowsill. Herbs are great for this allowing you to have fresh products ready when you are working in the kitchen.

Sunlight – Most importantly make sure that your plants are in the sunniest area of the house (obviously use a bit of common sense here and check out what it is that the plant you are growing likes best). The south side of a building is the best for most plants so see if you can get whatever you want to grow into that side of the house. (Don’t get me wrong most plants will grow wherever you put them, they normally just do better the more sunshine they get.)

I hope you will find these ideas helpful, they have worked well in my garden. Its nice getting stuck into this kind of work and at the end you can lie back on a nice bit of resin weave garden furniture and enjoy your hard work.

If you are looking for Resin Weave Garden Furniture check out Whitehall Garden Centre Bristol, I found them really helpful and got me what I needed very quickly.

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