Gardening

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I don’t live in an area where I can have a big beautiful garden outdoors. So, I wanted to try and grow some pretty flowers indoors.
I plan on getting some of the long, shallow tubs meant to store clothing under beds, and I will fill those with soil and put my flowers in there. Hopefully it will work.
Are there any books you can recommend for indoor gardening?
If not, can I at least get some helpful hints?

For my Media homework, I have to design a front cover for a specific target audience. I’ve decided to do 40+ males and female, and for the idea of the magazine I’ve got a gardening magazine which comes monthly/weekly. I can’t think of a good name for the magazine and it has to be shortish and snappy and something that sticks in your head easily. I don’t really want it to be Gardening Weekly/Monthly and I would prefer it to have alliteration in it(doesn’t matter if it doesn’t though).
I’ve got two names but they’re kinda lame :
Gardening Group
Plants
As you can probably see by the quality of the names I thought of I’m kinda desperate ha ha!!
Thanks in advance, also the name I use gets best answer! xx

I would like to take jobs as a gardening or landscaping consultant, working with homeowners as clients. I do not want to take measurements/draw landscape plans. That takes too much time outside of the meeting/appointment. I feel many people just want to pick my brain and ask questions anyway. But I feel I need to leave them with something, written notes, a list of plants, etc. I want them to feel they got their money’s worth. What would comprise a good product? I’d like to make up a form or sheet to use.

I’m looking to start doing gardening jobs (I currently do this type of work for a local authority, as well as being NVQ trained, so have some knowledge what to do). I have a selection of tools and a trailer, and can burn the rubbish. The only thing is I’m a but stuck on how much to charge (I’m in East Anglia), obviously I need to make enough for it to be worthwhile, whilst I don’t want to set my prices too highly. Can anyone give some examples of what they think is reasonable, (particularly if you’ve recently had work carried out). Anything else I need to bear in mind?
Thanks in advance!

I live in FL and I see so many people with these round looking hedges and other cool shapes around their house.. what kind of hedges are these possibly? I heard there is like some sort of topiary where you design people and complex crap like that… NOT what i’m talking about. Basic hedges around the house border

I put in some broccoli last year, spending the whole year fighting off the slugs and pigeons only to find pathetic little florets all at the same time that bolted within a week.
It must have been a commercial variety that needs lots of fertiliser and inputs, and is designed to be harvested once and then ploughed up.
A garden variety can produce a reasonable crop with just a bit of compost, but most important can throw out a few florets over a long season, which are reluctant to bolt.
This system applies to many other types of vegetable – I find sudden harvests most annoying, since I prefer to pick a few for each meal, and the longer the harvesting period the better.

I want to start my own gardening business up, just a small self employed business until it improves, i know the basics about gardening and i am willing to rob borrow and steal to make this idea business take off.
What kind of tools will i need and how would i get clients ETC.

I put in some broccoli last year, spending the whole year fighting off the slugs and pigeons only to find pathetic little florets all at the same time that bolted within a week.
It must have been a commercial variety that needs lots of fertiliser and inputs, and is designed to be harvested once and then ploughed up.
A garden variety can produce a reasonable crop with just a bit of compost, but most important can throw out a few florets over a long season, which are reluctant to bolt.
This system applies to many other types of vegetable – I find sudden harvests most annoying, since I prefer to pick a few for each meal, and the longer the harvesting period the better.

It was a long instrument and had something of a circular fork shape at the end. It looked like it was used for digging. The handle seemed like a unique design as well. It seemed like you push it down with your foot and a simple twist and it helps loosen the soil. I tried googling garden tools but couldn’t come up with what I saw on t.v.
It seems like a good tool for the type of land I am on. I want to grow a garden but the dirt is mainly rock. I have a bad back and would need a good instrument for digging. Thanks in advance.

SO i saw this horror movie a long time ago, probably early 90’s. All I can remember from it was that it was inside some greenhouse and this slug creature thing crawling into a mans gardening glove. Upon placing on the glove the man goes into a fit and grabs his hatchet and proceeds to chop at his hand. I have asked many people throughout life and no one seems to know.