Welcome to The Tao of Garden

Gardening is simply the practice of cultivating plants. People grow ornamental plants to harvest their flowers, foliage, or to get dyes out of them. They are also grown for their overall appearance.

There are also plants that are cultivated for human consumption. They are consumed as fruits, vegetables and herbs for medicinal purposes.

When we talk about gardening the subject ranges from fruit orchards to long boulevard plantings. Gardening practitioners may specialize themselves in growing only one type of plant or they may also practice mixed plantings that involve many various plants.

Gardening requires active participation of the practitioner and it usually requires intensive works and discipline.
Here you'll find many tips and tricks that are related to gardening.

There are various methods, types and approaches to maintain a healthy and beautiful garden. You can find all of them here.

You may want to learn what's the proper way to landscape the yard, choosing the right soil, maintain the plants, growing indoor gardens, and many many more.

We also look forward to hear your insights, suggestions, and even requests around gardening and landscaping. So please don't forget to leave your precious comments...

Happy gardening... :)

Prevent Yourself From Harmful Things In Composting

Compositing brings you close to the nature but also have some dangers associated with it.

These dangers can be avoided if you are bit careful and know how to save yourself.

This article will put light on some essential points that will help you out in preventing yourself.

Read up:

Reading up the basic concepts behind the compositing before actually implementing it is very crucial. It will not only let you know that how you can better perform the compositing but also help you out to prevent yourself from doing those things that are harmful for you. It will also let you know the right way of doing the compositing. It is must similar to new language learning, you gather information before learning it.

Wash your hands frequently:

Danger of poisoning is associated with the compositing, so it is necessary to carefully wash the hands and let your hand save from absorbing any poison in it. This will also be dangerous to your surrounding people, may be for other family members who are not use to organic chemicals. This is the best way to keep your composting heap secure by closing the lid.

Inspect your active compost frequently:

You should make careful and frequent inspections to ensure that no weeds and unwanted creatures inhabited in the pile. Make sure that no breeding is going on in the pile that is in your backyard, as it will cause the growth of unwanted and dangerous animals and pets.

Orient your friends and family about your composting activities:

It is always better to involve your friend and family in the composting activities. It will not only provide you sufficient help but also let them know that what is going on in the backyard. It will also let them spend their leisure time in the productivity activity. 

Keep the compost aerated:

The compositing pile can be poisonous if it is closed tightly and air is not allowed to circulate inside and outside. This will be killing for the plants. So make sure that it is not closed too much tight that through which air cannot passes. The compositing process will be quicken up by the aeration process. Aeration process will also safe the organic material from converting in to the poisonous blob. Of course you do not want your hands to enter in something dangerous.

Familiarize yourself with the machinery (for industrial scale compost heaps):

If you are doing the work at larger scale than it would require you to use the machineries. While using machineries make sure that you have complete know how about the machine system and you are cautious enough. Plus also make sure that you can make the machine fix in case of any problem aroused.

It is dangerous also because the compositing heap on the large scale can make more damage. Also make sure that the people you are hiring on the compositing work is familiar with the usage of the machine and can do better with it.

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