Interesting about the cottage and the garden. Useful tips for giving and garden

The dacha is not only a place where you grow vegetables and fruits. On a standard six hundred square meters (and there may be more of them), you can let your imagination really unfold! At the dacha, you can bring to life a variety of and, at times, even wild ideas. Many of them will not only decorate your garden, but will also be very useful in the hard work of a gardener. And most importantly - country homemade products will give new life things that, it would seem, are long overdue to go to the landfill.

What can you create from country crafts with your own hands? You will be surprised now, but anything can be used! Do not rush to throw in trash can things that have served their time or at first glance seem to be garbage. Fancy a little - maybe this old shoe is still good for something?

ThingsReincarnation Ideas
Plastic bottlesBottles for lemonade, milk, juice are perfect as any details for creating interesting shapes, as well as for creating fences around the beds or irrigation system. The material from which they are made is very durable and moisture resistant and will last more than one season in the country.
Milk boxesExcellent "pots" for seedlings! This has been known to gardeners for many years.
Old shoesCreate original flower pots from the "battalion" of old boots.
TiresCar tires can be used not only as flower beds: they can be used to create amazing animals and birds, and if you trim them with fabric or twine, you get excellent seats.
Lumber trimmingsThere is no need to burn the remnants of the boards in the oven - it is better to use them to decorate the fence, creating an interesting ornament, or to create small flower beds, paths, shelves.
Old techniqueThe skeleton of an ordinary Soviet bicycle, a rusty wheelbarrow, a broken motorcycle does not have to be scrapped - arrange them like a flower bed!
Aluminum cansOf them, you can make a device that scares away moles. It is enough to put the jar on a stick buried in the ground.
Broken glassColored broken glass will help to decorate the fence: drill holes in the boards and insert glass there. On a sunny day, you will not recognize your fence!
Plastic bottle capsThey will help shape your country house unique. Create patterns with lids attached to the walls of the house with small studs.
Old clothesScarecrows are still in demand. Chip two slats crosswise, dig the scarecrow's frame into the ground and dress it up in your old clothes. To make the scarecrow "kind", give him a pretty face and dress him in a flowered dress.
Old rakeDo you have an old and rusty rake that has served its day? Don't rush to get rid of them. Attach to the wall of your shed or house for a great garden tool hanger.

These are just some of the things that have become obsolete that can be used in the country. Remember: every object can be used in a new way, you just have to dream a little. Now is the time to give more detailed instructions to create various country homemade products, serving both to decorate the estate, and bringing considerable benefit.

DIY mini pond

A mini-pond, created with your own hands, vaguely resembling a fabulous swamp where the Frog Princess lives, is very simple to create. For this we need:

  1. an old bathtub or other large, water-tight container;
  2. old slate;
  3. old rubber hose;
  4. a piece of thick plastic film;
  5. stones, sand and other elements of "decor";
  6. plants that live in the water.

The technology of creating a mini pond on the site

  1. We bury the bath so that its edges are flush with the ground.
  2. We dig up slate around the bath so that its edges are 20 centimeters higher than the surface of the earth.
  3. Pull the hose cut along the edge of the slate (it will protect the polyethylene from rupture).
  4. We cover the bathtub and slate with polyethylene, carefully spreading it along the bottom of the future reservoir. The edges of the film can be sprinkled with earth and pressed down with stones.
  5. Pour water into the "reservoir".
  6. We decorate with stones, we plant around the plant, and water lilies can be placed in the pond itself.

Idea - a small pond on the site

Neat beds

Who doesn't love it when the garden beds are not just raised above the ground, but also neatly decorated? There must be order in everything! We offer to arrange the beds using plastic bottles... We will need:

  1. many plastic bottles;
  2. sand;
  3. paint - optional;
  4. shovel.

Work technology

  1. Choose bottles of the same volume and color. Colors can be combined if desired.
  2. Fill the bottles halfway with sand.
  3. Dig a shallow trench along the bed.
  4. Place the bottles upside down in the trench and dig in.
  5. Can paint the bottles water-based paint, but this is optional.

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"Safari"

Do you want lions and tigers, plump pigs, bright beetles, giraffes and zebras to settle in your dacha? Bring the idea of ​​"Safari" to life. You can create an improvised zoo with your own hands using completely different objects. We will need:

  • plastic bottles of different sizes;
  • old tires;
  • brushes and paint;
  • stones of different sizes or old construction helmets, basins;
  • shovel.

The most common representatives of the fauna created by summer residents are giraffe, zebra, piglet, beetles. We will try to arrange them with you on our site.

The giraffe and the zebra are made using the same technology. The differences are in the color and length of the animals' necks.

  1. Dig halfway into the ground old tire- this will be the body of the animal.
  2. After cutting off the bottom and tops, join several plastic bottles together to form a neck. Dig in the "neck" in front of the buried tire.
  3. Cut one bottle lengthwise, cut off the neck - you get a head. Attach it to the "neck".
  4. The animal is almost done! It remains to paint. Color your ungulate in the desired colors: the giraffe in yellow and orange, the zebra in black and white.

An interesting idea - a safari at a summer cottage

By analogy, you can also make palms, birches and other plants, decorating your "oasis" with them.

It's even easier to make a piglet:

  1. Take a large "pot-bellied" plastic bottle and fill it with sand to add bulk.
  2. Make ears from a piece of plastic and insert them into the area of ​​the "head" of the pig (where the neck of the bottle is).
  3. Paint the bottle with pink paint, and paint the eyes and a piglet with black paint. Pig is ready!

An interesting idea - piglets from plastic bottles

Cheerful multi-colored bugs can be made from any rounded containers and put on the beds and flower beds as decoration. Even stones are suitable for making: just paint them with paint, drawing dots like ladybirds, antennae, eyes.

And from an old basin you can make a tortoise Tortilla. Cutting the tires and bending their parts in a certain way, and then painting them with white paint, we get a swan.

Convenient sprinklers

Another convenient and practical way applications of plastic bottles - creating convenient system watering the beds. We will need:

  • plastic bottles;
  • thick nail;
  • shovel;
  • water.

Work technology

  1. In plastic bottles on the sides we do small holes a nail or a thick awl.
  2. We dig the blanks up with the neck into the ground next to the plant.
  3. Pour water into bottles through the neck.
  4. The water from the bottles will gradually flow into the ground through the holes and nourish the roots of the plant.

Hands-on experience - plant sprinklers

From soda bottles, you can organize and drip irrigation, which is very convenient for use in greenhouses. To do this, cut off the bottom of the bottle, and pierce several holes in the cork so that the water flows slowly. In order not to be mistaken, first make very small holes - it is better to expand them later.

After creating a blank, dig a hole (depth about 15 cm) near the bush, at a distance of 20 cm from the stem, and dig in the bottle with the neck down at an angle. It remains to fill the bottles with water, and the system is ready.

You can organize watering using bottles in another way. To do this, a bottle without a bottom is hung down with its neck on the side of the plant and filled with water. By unscrewing the plug a little, you can regulate the water flow. Place tiny pieces of plastic underneath the bottle to avoid erosion of the soil from droplets.

Winged swing

Having worked in the garden, I want to relax: for example, sit on a bench and drink tea. But it is more interesting to relax on a swing, especially with children. We offer to make unusual and even shocking swing from ... an old sofa! The main thing is that you grow strong and tall tree with powerful branches, for which you need to firmly fasten with strong ropes or chains old sofa... And it will swing softly and comfortably. It is better to cover such a means of entertainment from rain with a film, and put it indoors for the winter. But on the other hand, no one will have such a swing!

You can also make a swing from an old seat from a chair: just hang it from a thick and strong branch of a tree and swing to your health.

Such different flower beds

Every housewife knows flowerbeds made of old tires, used both in their original form and in various ways. But not everyone will guess how to make "houses" for flowers from an old bicycle, wheelbarrow, car, shoes or kettle.

An old bicycle can be easily fixed in the ground by digging in the wheels, and supplemented with small pots in which flowers are planted. In addition, let a climbing plant on it: it will grab the skeleton of a two-wheeled vehicle and turn it into an unusual flower bed.

An interesting idea - a flower bed from an old bicycle

From old rubber boots, painted different paint, bright flower pots are obtained. Fill them with soil and plant the plants there. Don't forget the drainage holes in the outsole of your old shoes! You can arrange such pots anywhere: on the veranda, fence, between the beds, and this is their great advantage. By the way, do not write off non-rubberized boots either: you can also fill them with earth and plant flowers in them, they just will serve less than rubber ones.

A flower bed of old shoes is an amazing and very beautiful idea.

We save right

An old metal teapot is also a great flower bed. Attach ropes or chains to the handle, hang it from the ceiling on the veranda, fill in the earth, and plant a climbing birch-type plant.

An old metal teapot is a great flower bed

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Home garden decoration - creative process, which allows you to take a break from work in the garden and in the garden. The well-equipped, decorated area becomes a wonderful resting place for the owners of the dacha and their guests.

When you want something beautiful, but there is only an empty piece of land with two old trees, it is not at all easy to decide what to do with this piece. Applying the skills of landscape design professionals is expensive. Is there really no simple budgetary way decorate the garden with materials at hand? There is!

"Rainbow" in the rose garden

It will take small area earth, ordinary stones and acrylic paint. In this case, the remains of the rose garden that have overwintered unsuccessfully serve as a test site.

By the way! Anything can come in handy, for example, tree cuts, from which you can build an excellent path for children and adults. It is better if the wood is dry. In any case, not wet.

This style of landscape design can be safely called "positivism". It is perfect if you have children, you love flowers and think that summer is the time for bright colors.


Now it would be nice to mulch the hole. But there is no mulch. But there are stones. Smaller pebbles can be used as mulch. Place small white pebbles around the trunk on level soil. Radius about 15 cm. If they are not white enough or even multicolored, you can touch up them right on the spot after installation with an acrylic white spray.

Large stones will have to be painted with a brush. Two layers of paint (one, and when dry - the second) is enough. Stones do not have to be painted on all sides - one of them will still lie on the ground.

Advice! Acrylic paints dilute halfway with water, otherwise they will be too thick and lie unevenly. Plus, they'll last for a long time.

A 200 ml can of paint is enough for about 60 large stones. Large stones painted in bright colours, will serve as a border for roses.

Green trim

After that, the fun begins. Around the rose bushes, according to the idea of ​​the author of the project, the emerald grass of the lawn will grow. This means that something else will be needed. Namely: sand or peat, humus, lawn fertilizer, grass seeds.

It is best to sow straight away sports lawn, which contains at least four types of herbs. You need to sow thickly. The area written on the seed box for which the seeds are intended, immediately multiply by two.

Advice! To keep the lawn even and uniform, the grass seeds are mixed with sawdust. It is not worth mixing with sand, it is heavier and will not give uniformity with light seeds.

Before sowing your lawn, finish placing decorative pebbles around the white mulch pebbles. It is not necessary to press the stones into the soil, it is enough just to put them on the surface. When the grass begins to grow, it will slightly cover the pebbles.

Next to the rose bushes, lay out a path of painted wood cuts. It is not necessary to make a continuous path, there are enough "steps" so that you can walk on them or stand on them to care for roses. While the young grass is growing, you should not trample it.

How to sow the perfect lawn

  1. To prepare the soil, loosen it with a rake, breaking all the lumps.

  2. Then scatter over the surface with a thin layer of humus (1 cm) and sprinkle on top with sand mixed with peat (2 cm).
  3. No nutrient soil is needed as you have already laid under future lawn a layer of humus. But for greater effect, you can sprinkle the prepared area with starting lawn fertilizer in granules.
  4. Then compact the soil. This does not require a special roller or even a large barrel. Two small sheets of plywood or whatever material you can stand on is sufficient. Put one sheet, stand on it, put the second next to it, go to it. And so on until the entire site is equal.

  5. Now you need to water the soil well with water and you can sow seeds. They must be dry. When buying, pay attention to the packing date on the box. It is desirable that it was no more than two years ago.
  6. Try to sow evenly in all directions. The thicker you sow, the denser the turf will be and the more stable the lawn will be.

  7. Backfilling the seeds with soil. A layer of 1 cm is sufficient. Watering with shallow sprinklers so as not to erode the ground.

Advice! If there is no peat or sand, buy a construction sieve. Pick a dry soil in your garden and sift through a sieve. An excellent backfill will result.

If it is cool at night or an invasion of birds is expected, you can cover the crops with foil. Under the film it is 5-7 degrees warmer, the seeds will sprout faster. And the moisture necessary for the seeds to hatch will be better preserved in the shelter.

Advice! Ants from one anthill in a couple of hours can drag off half of your freshly sown lawn. To prevent this from happening, it is worth taking care in advance to neutralize ants, as well as slugs, which will gladly eat young grass.

Now all that remains is to wait for the blooming of roses and the regrowth of greenery. For all the beauty spent one weekend and a minimum of funds. Moreover, success is guaranteed, since there is nothing difficult in creating such a project. Looks very positive. Easy to care for. Causes admiration of neighbors and violent delight of children.

Video - How to plant a lawn

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Flower "stream"

You have a summer cottage, a vegetable garden, a garden, a lawn, a flower garden, but something is missing. The soul asks for beauty. For example, to make an artificial reservoir with your own hands. No, not a pool, but at least small pond, or a trickle. But it's so hard! You need to dig a hole, carry cobblestones, buy a film or plastic container, tinker with aquatic plants, to acquire all sorts of mechanisms - filters, pumps. Do you think beauty is never simple? How it happens! Easy way acquire beauty without additional material and physical costs - a stream of flowers.

A flower stream is not even an element of landscape design, but a method. Unconventional way planting plants not in the usual flower bed, but in the form of a stream flowing from any container. All costs are to purchase the capacity. You can use an old clay pot, though.

Pot miracle

To create a flower stream, you will need a part of the site on which you were going to make another banal flower bed. Capacity - it can be: a pot, a jug, a bottle (any container from which the future "stream" will originate) and flower seedlings ready for planting. You can sow a stream with seeds, but in this case, firstly, you will have to wait with beauty, and secondly, it is not known how the seeds will sprout. The stream may turn out to be uneven and with “bald spots”. Seeds can be gnawed by birds, washed off the rain, and carried away by ants.

Ground cover plants

The choice of plants for the stream is not as obvious as it seems at first glance. Ground covers and creepers can be used.

Table. The choice of ground cover in accordance with the growing conditions.

Growing conditionsTypes of ground cover plants
If the bed of the flower "stream" runs through the illuminated areas of the garden, it is necessary to plant light-loving ground cover.These include: obrieta, creeping carnations, rezuha, carpet phlox, alissum.
If the stream is in partial shade, plant plants that can tolerate shading.Plant dwarf astilba, tiarella, yellow lamiastrum, bruner, tenacious, trifoliate waldsteinia, buttercup anemone. These plants will bloom luxuriously and feel great in shade, for example, among trees.
A flower stream can be created even in a highly shaded area.To do this, use shade-tolerant ground covers: fragrant violet, small periwinkle.
A stream can be created even where there is constant dampness and the earth "does not dry out" even in summer.Moisture-loving plants: cinquefoil, hauttuynia, monochromatic loosestrife form a lush and colorful "water stream".

Annuals

Along with ground covers, you can use many annuals to create a flower stream, only you should choose undersized varieties, no higher than 30-50 cm. The list of annuals for this purpose is huge. Limit only to those that sow in the ground in your climate. An impressive list - there are plenty to choose from.

By the way! Bulbous flowers will look effective. They can be planted close to each other, and weak and defective ones, if necessary, replaced.

You can use a tree stump instead of a pot.

Bulbous flowers and perennials

The "bulbous" version of the stream can be made of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, muscari, glamini (miniature gladioli), anemones, freesias, cyclamens and other perennials.

Root perennials can also be used. Will look great in the bed of primrose, chickweed, saxifrage, veronica, pansies, Carpathian bell, armeria, gerbil, daisies, liverwort.

No slope for the "stream"? Create it with a mound of earth

Creek planting

Having decided on planting material, having found a suitable jug, indicating the length and width of the future flower stream, you can start planting.

  1. The earth is dug up, cleared of weeds, well leveled and moistened.
  2. Then the plants are placed in pre-marked places.
  3. Everyone is watered.
  4. It is important to remember that ground cover plants grow rapidly, therefore, their planting zones must be limited, and shoots emerging "from the banks" of the stream should be regularly removed.

That's all, the flower stream is ready. It will require no more care than an ordinary flower bed - watering, feeding, removing dried flowers. The visual effect you get will surpass all your beauty dreams. Still think beauty is never simple?

Creation of a dry stream on the site

Growing up

Vines rank in the hierarchy ornamental plants special place. Their stems are flexible and unstable (in herbaceous annuals, among perennials, tree-like vines are found). But the vitality and the desire to grow "to the sky" are unparalleled. They only need support. Give the vines a foothold and they will turn your site into a fabulous blooming kingdom.

Vertical landscaping, for which vines are used, is a very important part of landscape design. If most plants can "cope" with horizontal surfaces, then fences, walls, pillars, balconies, terraces can be decorated only with the help of vines.

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What are vines good for?

  1. For the most part, vines do not require a large area of ​​nutrition. They only need a little soil (half as much as any other plant) to give you much more than any other plant, leaf mass and flowers.
  2. Vines can grow near the wall of the house, where the foundation passes and a layer of soil above the concrete is only 15 cm.
  3. Vines can grow in tubs and flower pots.
  4. Lianas are very resistant to drought, excessive moisture, many - to cold.
  5. They do not need highly nutritious soil. Of course, they will not give up fertilizers, but even without feeding they will grow and bloom, and some will also bear fruit.
  6. Annual vines are wonderful because their growth rate is up to 5 cm per day.

Advice! If you urgently need, already this summer, to decorate an unsightly wall or twine a pergola, a gazebo, a terrace with blooming greenery, seek help from Ipomoea, Dolichos, sweet pea, kvamoklita, kobee, nasturtium, ornamental beans. These fast-growing vines will cope with the decoration of the site perfectly.

Table. Annual vines and their characteristics.

NameImageDescription
This curly annual grows up to 4m tall or wherever you direct it. If you do not direct it, it will “go” itself. It will braid everything that can and cannot be braided - a fence, a neighbor's fence, a tree, a sunflower, grapes.
This is a curly annual from the legume family. Its stems can grow up to 3-3.5 m. The stems are thin, ribbed. And the flowers are from 3 to 5 cm in diameter, of all kinds of tones and colors, and with a delicious subtle but strong aroma.
Grows up to 5 meters. The flowers are medium-sized, but very interesting in shape. The colors are also very different - from white to red and variegated. Beans can bloom until frost. Its foliage, together with flowers, looks very decorative and, at the same time, exquisite.
This plant is interesting not only (not so much) in flowers as in its delicate leaves. Kvamoklite also has flowers. They are funnel-shaped, intensely red, and quite numerous. But the foliage of the plant, bright green, dissected into many "slices", resembling, either the needles of evergreen trees, or acacia, helps the flowers of kvamoklite to appear in all their scarlet beauty.
This plant is exceptionally fancy. Its leaves are large, trifoliate, the color is dark green with a purple tint. The flowers are in the form of beans. Large, purple and emitting a magical aroma. Dolichos blooms late - at the end of summer. But it blooms until frost, until the end of October.
Kobeya climbing - differs from other lianas in very beautiful and large flowers. The flowers, up to 9 cm in size, are fantastic. In the form of bells, slightly elongated, and from them long stamens peep far beyond the flower. Cobea blooms from mid-summer until frost. The flowers are milky and purple in color. Purples are greenish at first, then cream, and only then turn lilac (or acquire a bluish tint) and become purple. Therefore, on one liana, you can simultaneously see flowers of three different shades.
Very helpful and highly decorative flower... Leaves, flowers and fruits of nasturtium are used in cooking, cosmetics, folk medicine... Grows up to two meters. It grows very quickly. The leaves are large, wide, beautiful irregular shape... Flowers - "gramophone" sunny colors - from maroon to lemon yellow. Bloom all summer and half of autumn.

Growing annual vines

There is nothing difficult in growing herbaceous annual vines. You can sow them directly into the ground (since these plants develop rapidly, it is better that the soil is loose and fertilized).

  1. Sown at the end of May.
  2. Shallow holes are made, 2-3 seeds are placed in each hole.
  3. If the seeds are small, you can sow in the grooves. The depth is about two centimeters.
  4. They water the crops and wait.
  5. You won't have to wait long. In one and a half to two weeks, sprouts will appear.
  6. After another two weeks, it is worth preparing supports for them (pull the ropes, install pergolas), along which they will climb.

If you want to get the flowering of annual vines earlier, it makes sense to grow seedlings first, and then plant them in open ground... Seeds are planted for seedlings in April, in separate peat pots (most grassy vines have a weak root system, which should not be injured during transplantation).

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Every summer cottage, every garden plot you can always decorate with improvised materials, of which there are a lot in the country. Extraordinary gizmos can be made from such materials, which will surely attract the attention of many. In this article, you will learn how to make your garden, vegetable garden and summer cottage beautiful. Here we have collected all the brightest and most interesting. And all this can be done by hand.

Garden decoration in winter

You can decorate the garden with your own hands with something interesting not only in summer, but also in winter. V winter time you can make sculptures out of cones. Cones for the sculpture are harvested in advance. Do it in the fall. Cones are used to create entire sculptures or individual elements.



If you take wire and rods, then you can make voluminous compositions from them. In this case, it is recommended to arm yourself with your imagination and create what your soul desires. In this case, the most important thing is not to limit yourself. At the same time, sculptures can be of absolutely any size.

Of course, snow is used to decorate a summer cottage in winter. You can create sculptures from snow on your own. different sizes... And to make them look even more beautiful, highlight them. The effect will be spectacular.

As a rule, it gets dark very early in winter. Therefore, luminous garlands and other elements will be a wonderful decoration in this case.

Various sculptures can be used to decorate the garden. You can buy them in the store or make them yourself.

An original idea. In winter, you can decorate the cottage with ice figures. To make them, you will need a beautiful form, in which they are laid out beautiful jewelry... It can be: rowan berries or cones. Fill these elements with water and leave in the cold. After a while everything will freeze and finished goods used in garden decoration. For greater originality, such products are tinted with food dyes.

In winter everything looks harmonious in the garden. The trees are covered in snow and everything looks beautiful. But the garden setting can be made even more attractive. Make voluminous compositions of wire and branches. Compositions can be in the form of animals or some kind of geometric shapes.

In this article, we will try to list bright garden crafts for you. However, if you do not know how to create something beautiful, then you do not need to worry. It is enough to arrange the correct consecration in the garden and the garden will be able to sparkle with new colors.



Vegetable garden decoration

The modern decoration of the garden is significantly different from the old years. Today, with some effort, the garden has become more convenient and practical. Making your garden more interesting is easy. Use the following guidelines.

Perform zoning. The garden should be divided into sections. In each section, it is recommended to grow those plant species that are able to get along well with each other. As a result, garden maintenance will be easier and your plants will grow better.

Take advantage of the fences. Experts recommend separating each section of the garden from others and raising it above the general ground level. As a result, you will be able to save time on weeding and the soil will not be oversaturated. You should come up with eye-catching bumpers. You can use wood or other materials. Make them above ground level. As a result, there will always be cleanliness and order between the beds. Below we have collected photographs of garden decoration for you. Each such decision will help save space in the garden. In addition, it will look very beautiful.

It is worth rationally using the space in the garden. Distribute the plants in the order you want. As a result of this action, the garden will look neat and care for it can be done faster and easier.

Good idea: Neat concrete or gravel paths can be laid between the beds in the garden. With the help of such paths, it will be possible to get rid of dirt, and it will be more convenient to work with the beds.

It is worth noting that the most interesting crafts for a summer residence that you can make with your own hands can make the country house very beautiful. At any cottage or in an ordinary country house, you can equip an imitation of an island of wildlife. Lay out the floor with a suitable covering. Simple lawn grass can act as such a covering. Arrange country furniture... And be sure to arrange the plants. In such a zone, you can relax and enjoy the comfort.

You can decorate any garden area with a plant exhibition. To make it simple For this purpose, a rack is placed. And the plants are arranged on it in no particular order. The pots should be of the same style. In this case, it will be possible to emphasize the individuality of each flower. It is best to use pots from the store in creating the composition. The rack itself with flowers is installed in a neat place.


Finally

In general, in order to make your garden, vegetable garden or summer cottage more beautiful, we have offered you all the most interesting things for decorating these territories. We hope that our really great ideas can be useful to you.

How to make beautiful garden and a garden with your own hands, which would appeal to us and bring pleasure? Today, a garden and a city is not just a land where food is grown to the table, it is a refuge from the hustle and bustle and stress, a place where our soul returns to beauty. And the principles of creating a beautiful garden and vegetable garden can be applied both to your summer cottage and to landscaping a balcony or even to your collection of indoor flowers.

You can be in the garden for a couple of minutes or for hours - it doesn't matter, because every second you enjoy every cell of your body.
And although our home and garden is a purely personal and private space, several general recommendations will help you achieve real perfection and create a beautiful garden and vegetable garden with your own hands.

Separate your garden and vegetable garden visually.

Zoning your garden space will help you create a more holistic and harmonious design... A flowerbed with tall ornamental grasses and flowers serves as a kind of partition between the vegetable garden and the garden.


And although the garden is located very close to the vegetable garden, separated by such decorative border, it will turn out to be more comfortable and beautiful.

Consider the view from different parts of the garden.

It is beautiful to admire your garden from afar, but it is much more important to enjoy it from the inside. Therefore, the views that open both from your gazebo and from the path or secluded bench in the garden are important.

To create an interesting structure, use curved paths and arches in the garden. climbing plants, neatly fitting them into the general arrangement of shrubs and fruit trees.

It is important to take into account not only the beauty of flowers, but also their aroma, then, walking around the garden, you can feel how the aroma of roses flows into the wonderful aroma of jasmine or lilies.

Use any corner of your garden as a flower garden.

Your vegetable garden is not just a place to fight for the harvest. With a little effort, you can always give it more interesting view- planting as a curb spices or flowers that repel insects.

Even small corners of the garden, such as a spot at the back of a house, can be used to create a cute flower garden with unpretentious perennials.

The fence is a great place for a flower garden with garden vines; it is enough to fix a garden net on it. For the sunny side of the fence, you can plant a climbing rose that will bloom all season.

For a shady place, plant honeysuckle, which blooms, although not for long, but has a very pleasant aroma.

And of course, use clematis! This is the most popular garden vine and can transform your garden in an amazing way. Moreover, clematis will feel best on garden arch since he needs shade in the root zone and light for the shoots.

A garden is not only a decoration, but mainly a harvest. Using grapes to twine garden gazebo, we will solve two problems at once.

Firstly, the grapes will create a pleasant coolness on a sunny day, and secondly, in the fall they will delight us with a generous harvest.

Shade-loving and light-loving plants can be planted nearby.

Anywhere in your garden, you can mix and match your favorite plants to create the right light mode for them.
It is important to highlight light-loving tall plants a sunnier side, perhaps even removing some of the shading high landings, and shade-loving plants plant next to them in their shade.

Create a luxurious look.

Do not be greedy, and do not plant all the beautiful varieties of flowers that caught your eye in the garden. Better choose 1-2 beautiful varieties but create from them really luxurious flower bed by planting several bushes nearby.
It is important to learn how to grow very few plants - so for this arch near the gate, two varieties of climbing roses were chosen, but these are, indeed, healthy and well-groomed bushes that give abundant flowering.

Add contrast.

Where there is no interesting structure, use color. The mint thickets in the far corner of the garden do not have a particularly interesting aesthetic appearance, adding a container with contrasting foliage to these plantings, they got an excellent result.

Moreover, the contrast can be not only color, but also light. So white flowers in a shady corner of the garden will visually make it less gloomy, giving it an almost mystical charm.

Mix.

A beautiful garden and garden with your own hands means creating an informal, relaxing atmosphere. This can be achieved by combining plants in the garden in unexpected ways.

By adding some simple flowers next to your vegetable plantings, you can transform a simple vegetable garden into a triumph of the beauty and bounty of nature in your garden.

Agree that and good harvest brings no less aesthetic pleasure than a flower garden?


And enjoying the taste of homemade vegetables is another gift from nature for us.

Use unpretentious plant varieties.

A do-it-yourself garden and vegetable garden means organic products, preferably with minimal use of chemicals.

AND The best way avoiding the use of chemicals is choosing disease resistant varieties.

Before bringing a new plant to the site, take an interest in its resistance to diseases and pests so that it does not create problems for you or the surrounding plantings in the garden or vegetable garden.
This applies to both vegetables and fruits and flowers.

You can always find those plant varieties that will grow well in your conditions, without requiring your special attention and the use of chemicals.

Each has its own place.

Every corner in the garden has its own purpose, it has a right to exist and your love.

That's why compost bin and a barn - should not be grimy foundlings in your garden, but be as loved and well-groomed as flower beds and a vegetable garden.

In return, every corner in your garden will only delight you.

Think big.

When creating a garden and vegetable garden with your own hands, it is important to plan planting not only on the plane, but to use the height difference - then your landscape design will be more intense and interesting. In this regard, those who have a garden on a slope are lucky - if there are certain problems, such a garden will always look like wins than flat plantings with a vegetable garden and a couple fruit trees in the corners.

The question often arises of how to cover climbing roses for the winter. In fact, you make a minimum of movements - you cover the roses with foil right on the arch.

A vegetable garden as a place for creativity.

While it may be too late to change anything in the garden this year, it is never too early to make a quantum leap towards better garden in future. Analyze what your vegetable garden looks like now, so that you would like to add, remove or change. Draw a plan.

Think, where are the gaps, where are the errors? Is your garden not as luxurious as you would like?
Visually fewer varieties in one place create a greater effect. Plant only one type of vegetables in the beds - then it will look denser.

Surprise yourself. Always try one or two new ideas per season.

Do your best. Don't give up because your space or time is limited. Start small - plant something that you admire.

True, they say that the most delicious vegetables and fruits are those that have grown in our garden. A DIY garden and vegetable garden will give you the most satisfaction out of life than anything else.

In the spring, as soon as the sun begins to bake and the seedlings on the windowsills turn green, you immediately want to go to the garden, to the dacha, to Fresh air... Especially the editors of the site site loves it when everything blooms in the garden - cherry, apple, pear.

Each of them has accumulated vast experience in gardening, and we have prepared for you secrets, tips and summer cottages that will make your garden even more productive and comfortable. Follow these garden tips and your garden will have bees buzzing, birds singing, and people talking.

1. All plants love settled warm water, better than a barrel, where beneficial bio bacteria are bred. Set up a special barrel to collect rainwater and use it when watering.

2. Kill weeds with a non-toxic home remedy. To do this, dilute 4 liters of vinegar, 250 g of table salt and 1 tbsp. l. dishwashing detergents. Mix all this, fill a garden sprayer with this solution, and spray the weeds with it in the heat.

3. Eggshells are a natural source of calcium. You can grow seedlings in eggshells. Plant them for example, seedlings of cucumbers or peas. As soon as the green head appears, plant it in the garden along with the shell. You can also use eggshell as a fertilizer for the soil. Grind it finely in a blender or simply crush it in your hands and sprinkle it over the area.

4. Coconut pots look very beautiful, they are used to decorate the veranda and country porch. However, they have a significant drawback - the soil dries out quickly, such a planter needs daily watering. To retain moisture longer, place the baby diaper underneath when planting. That's really really a dacha need.

5. Many animals that do damage summer cottages squirrels, for example, do not like the smell of soap. A soap solution will help you in the fight against aphids.

Dissolve 300 g of laundry (or 100 liquid) soap in 10 liters of water. The soap can be grated.

Ash-soap solution from aphids:

150 - 300 g wood ash pour 10 l hot water, bring to a boil and add to warm solution 40 g of soap.

After spraying, even folk remedies it will be possible to eat vegetables in days. Do not overdo it with aphid spray; plants can get burned.

6. Many household items can be used as. So, used tea bags in fertilizers will increase the concentration nutrients mainly fertilizer.

Diluted tea also protects against fungal infections.

7. Finely ground citrus peel helps to get rid of aphids and mosquitoes in the country.

8. Coffee and coffee grounds are often used as they contain a large number of nitrogen, magnesium and potassium, which are necessary for the development of plants. Adding coffee grounds to the soil will improve air permeability. The smell of coffee repels some garden pests, some types of ants and animals.

9. The plastic forks stuck in this way will keep animals out of the garden.

10. Cover the newly planted seedlings with plastic bottles. This will save heat-loving plants.

11. Crafts from stones with plant symbols, which can be used instead of signs, will make your garden more cozy and interesting.

12. Sprinkling private plot bitter or epsom salt will replenish the soil's mineral levels. This will cause your plants to become bushy and blooming.

13. Excellent modern gardening tips claim that there is a very controversial way, but you can try and draw conclusions whether it is worth doing or not.

14. Don't forget about. It can also grow herbs, greens and flowers in boxes.

15. Most plants love warm water for irrigation. So that it reaches the roots faster and warms up, water it with the help of plastic bottles in which holes are made. Excellent summer cottage needs are obtained from plastic bottles.

With these helpful tips for your garden and vegetable garden, your site will be the best and most productive. Be sure to use them and write what tips you like the most.