Small garden ideas

Not too many years ago many individuals across the country had their own home gardens. In the years since then open land has become less easy to come by. Now, most people rent or can only afford to buy a house in an area with small or no yard. This has them thinking that having their own garden is out of the question. That is not the case though. The following are just a few ideas on creating a garden where there is a limited area:

1. Make your garden vertical. If you have a small yard with a fence then why not use the fence for the garden? You can have brackets attached to it to hold flowerpots, have boxes built on it to grow your flowers or vegetables, or grow climbing plants. If you don't have a fence then could try making a step pyramid of wooden squares.
2. Make indoor terrariums. To accomplish this you can use just about anything already laying around the house. A jelly jar could be used for growing herbs, a cleaned out whipped topping tub make a good planter, or even a plastic milk jug with the top cut off. You want to make sure that any of these items is washed clean. In the case of a plastic milk jug you could cut off the top and poke a few drain-holes in the bottom and you have a planter deep enough for vegetables. Just make sure you place it on something to catch the water that drains out.
3. Add planter boxes to existing areas. Most of us have seen an old movie or television show where there are planter boxes attached to the outside of a window ledge. These can be great for a garden area. Just make sure the boxes are well secured. Other places to add boxes would be patio furniture like benches, chairs, or even picnic tables.

Review: The Biblical clock

The Biblical Clock: The untold secrets linking the Universe and Humanity with God's plan by Daniel Friedman and Dania Sheldon is a thought provoking non-fiction book. In the pages we read about how through study scripture and other religious writings Biblical scholars have been able to show a correlation between the timelines set down by science and what is written in the pages of Genesis. This is the forth book in Daniel Friedman's inspired studies series.

The book starts off with a gripping story of the fall of the city of Acre during the crusades in 1291. It is through this story that we meet Isaac Ben Samuel, who miraculously survives the siege, who comes up with a formula for showing how the Earth is millions of years old long before scientist came to that conclusion. From that start you are drawn into as we travel through time meeting rabbis and other scholars as they share their wisdom and insights on how the Age of the Universe, the timeline the science gives us for the evolution of life, and the big bang.

The many interactions in this book are so real and convincing that can actually picture yourself in the pages. One such interaction was when a Rabbi was teaching Torah studies and one of the students brought up the question of what does the phase “it was good” mean. It is a simple question that probably many of us wondered about when reading the creation story in Genesis. Another example and one my favorite interactions was when the question arose of why we use different names for God throughout the Bible. The Rabbi's answer was rather intriguing when he said we do this for each enumeration of God.

I found the book the book hard to put down as I found each page took me on a journey of discovery secrets that would show how religion and science are not as different as most of us think. Some of the ideas I particularly found interesting was the idea of God days during the creation and how that each day of creation represents one of the millennium following since the creation.

I would recommend this for any that has ever wondered if science and the Bible have a commonality. I