Gayla has a post on some pretty Cape Sundew plants she bought. We all know carniverous plants are just cool, but I didn't ever really think of them as pretty.

I found this great pic of cape sundew on wikipedia:

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Aloha All

My name is Gaston, I'm 66 yr old and live on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Over the many years of having numerous gardens grown on the ground level, I got frustrated with all the invading bugs and critters and bend over work.

Being handy with welding I put together a revolving lazy Suzan garden, that's 16' across

This garden spins on an old Car wheel welded atop a 6" pipe cemented into the ground, off the edge of the Car wheel rim I attached five triangular racks that hold five 7 gallon grow pots...35 grow pots plus 3 in the center gives me 38 grow pots in all.

The beauty of this is the garden is, it's hip high and no longer do I have to bend over to work the garden or shovel, rake, hoe, pull weeds or swat at fly's and mosquitos in my face.

I can stand in one spot and plant/harvest the whole garden.

There are no bugs, slugs, frogs, rats, cat, dogs, ect, very little weed...

commonsensekid

I've begun to think about what to get all the various people on my gift list this year and I've come up with a simple idea that will work for at least a few of those folks. Most of the people in my life are not gardeners mainly because they think either they don't have the space for such a thing (apartment dwellers, etc.) or they think they wouldn't know the first thing about how to keep a plant alive.

So, this morning I went out to my local nursery and bought a cool pot and a few small herbs - rosemary, oregano and sage. I'll plant these things together and presto! - a beautiful and compact herb garden that can be kept outside or even on a windowsill if space is an issue. If these people cook and can actually use these herbs, all the better. If not, it'll add a little green into their lives. I've seen these kinds of things being sold at the farmer's market for quite a bit of money but putting it together myself will cost me about $20.

I hope my girlfriends...

lulugardens

I'm a little late finding this post, but last January, the Get Rich Slowly personal finance blog had a nice post about planning for their summer vegetable harvest and starting a garden. As they say in the post:

In any case, there's lots of good advice in there for starting a garden. Given their common sense financial advice, they recommend starting with herbs:

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As a follow on to my The Definitive One Page Guide to Composting article, here's a home brew method I picked up from The Backyard Gardening Blog.

A bit much for my limited space, but seems like it would work!

Update:
Adding more links, wikipedia article about compost tea, and what is really the definitive guide to brewing compost tea, the Fine Gardening article on the subject.

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