Answers To Your Questions About Free Garden Plan
Steven asks…
Pls comment on my travel plan Tokyo?
I have 6 days free time in Tokyo: Saturday and Sunday in week 1, and Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday in week 2.
Below are the places I plan to visit:
-Metropolitan Tokyo area (two-day tour, may be non-consecutive days)
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**Tokyo Imperial Palace & East Garden – free admission
Tokyo Science Museum
Tokyo Tower (just look at a distance, will not pay & enter)
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Origami House – tel 03-5684-6040
Studio Ghibli Museum
Odaiba
Miraikan, Future Science Museum – free Saturdays
Chuo
Tsukiji Fish Market
Harajuku/Shibuya
**Meiji Shrine – free (go on Sunday to see traditional
Japanese wedding)
**Yoyogi Park – free
**Omotesando Street
Takeshita Dori
Daiso
Ginza
Ueno
**Ueno Park & Zoological Garden – is panda still on display?
**Tokyo National Museum
National Museum of Nature and Science
**Asakusa Kannon Temple
Nakamise Shopping Arcade
National Museum of Western Art – free 2nd / 4th Saturdays
Shitamachi Museum
Shinjuku district
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
(preferably evening @ 45/F observation deck)
Shinjuku Gyoen Garden – closed on
Mondays
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-Tokyo Disney LAND or SEA (one-day tour, stay until evening for fireworks display)
– Hakone round course (one-day tour)
– Yokohama (half-day tour only, afternoon/evening)
Yamate
Sankein Garden
Yamashita Park
Minato Mirai 21
Landmark Tower
– Kamakura (half-day tour only, morning/lunch)
Great Buddha
Hasedera Temple
Hachimangu Shrine
Zeniarai Benten
Zumisenji Temple
Kenchoji Temple
– Nagano (half-day or one-day tour)
Zenkoji Temple
Matsumoto Castle
Kamikochi (Japanese Alps)
Snow Monkeys (Kambayachi)
-Omiya
Bonsai Museum
Railway Museum
-Nikko (half-day or one-day tour)
Nikko Toshogi Temple
Nikko Futarasan Shrine
Kegon Falls
Do you think I should drop certain cities/wards or specific spots because they are out-of-the-way, or they go in the opposite direction, or they will only cause too much delay in my over-all schedule.
What is the proper sequence or order of the tour to visit different sites without going back and forth in one city/ward?
Although I will be based in Tokyo, please feel free to recommend an overnight stay in one city to maximize my travel time.
Finally, which among the above museums, parks, shrines, temples, castles are really worth paying the entrance fees and spending some time inside? And which ones are worth seeing at a distance outside without having to enter inside the grounds or buildings (and paying the entrance fee in the process). For example, I just want to see Rodin’s “The Thinker” in front of Museum of Modern Art.
Green Thumb answers:
:O that’s a lot of places! Lol well I can only help you with the Tokyo part. I lived in Tokyo for 2 months, and all the places you listed are really worth going to! The only suggestion I have is are you thinking about the train fees and are you planning on renting a SUICA card? Because there is no way you will walk 
David asks…
Is homemade laundry detergent garden safe?
I’m Planning on routing grey water from the washer to the lawn. I currently make my own laundry detergent (washing soda, borax, and zote). Is this detergent garden safe or do I need to have a grey water filter? I’m also concerned about the health of my small chicken flock that will be free ranging in the same area as the grey water disposal.
Green Thumb answers:
You’re going to have a problem. Not with toxicity, but with nothing for the chickens to eat Borax is a great insecticide. It will kill all the living things in your grass, leaving the chickens alive, but with no food. No bugs, no worms, not much of anything, except grass.
Your yard, your chickens, your choice.
Helen asks…
free online landscaping program?????
is there a free online landscape design program out there?
i want o do my garden, but i want to plan it out on computer first. without having to buy softwear
Green Thumb answers:
Better Homes and Gardens has a free on here –
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/planagardenhome_03022002.xml&catref=cat10004
You will have to register with BHG to access it, but except for getting to spam your e-mail box it is free. I checked the no spam option box, but I got an increase in spam traffic strting right after that nonetheless. The capabilities of the program are not very advanced, but it may meet your needs.
If you browse around their website they have lots of landscape plans available for free. Most of them are themed. At the very least, these will give you some ideas.
If you have a decent photo editing tool or graphics software you may be able to just use a digital image (digital camera or a scanner regular photo) to make your own landscape plan. Load up your house/yard photos as the base. Then look through internet resources for palnt info and make ‘digital stickers’ from the internet images to paste on your base photo. It is more involved that the BHG free planner, but you will have a better idea of what is will really look like. I am planning to give this method a try myself for our yard. But for me, playing around with the ‘digital playground’ will be as much fun or more so that playing in the real dirt – I love computer graphics fun.
Sharon asks…
Can someone please give me an idea for wooden project?
In elaboration, Im looking for an idea of something I can make, with wood, because I don’t feel like im doing anything with my life(I know it sounds weird but its true). I was thinking maybe a large wooden-garden windmill but I cant find any free/good plans. So, Im open to all suggestions. If possible please include plans but thats not nessecary! Thx everyone!!! Aloha!
Green Thumb answers:
Aloha,
How about a lighthouse? This is a moderately easy project that can result in a beautiful, even saleable, piece of lawn art. I don’t know what skill you are with woodworking tools, but this project will keep you busy for a while, and make you feel like you’re doing something with your life – (C’mon! Cheer up! It’s just wintertime blues.) Just yahoo search for “lighthouse building plans”, and take a look at what comes up. Or, You may find a plan at absolutelyfreeplans.com or at Ubuild.com.
Betty asks…
Free shed plans – Where to get?
I’ve decided to build a shed for my gardening tools and what not.. does anyone know where I can find some free shed plans I could use?
Green Thumb answers:
I was searching for the same thing awhile back. I decided to buy a collection of 10,000+ shed plans from http://www.shedblueprints.org/. It was perfect for me because I only had to pay one small price and I was able to skim through a bunch of the plans to find one that was perfect for my project.
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