Author: vickib

Companion Plants as a Ground Cover started out with me asking Bob what would be a good ground cover around your plants that was perhaps also useful in the kitchen.

Nutrient Deficiencies can be a difficult thing to diagnose absolutely in a plant.Nutrients (also called elements or fertilisers) are either mobile OR not-mobile Mobile nutrients Mobile Nutrients are ones that move through

Carbon – How valuable is it for your soil? Back in July 2016 I posted an article on chemicals in horse manure and the damaging effects it had on that

Why use a Garden Cover or Mulch? Garden covers come in many and varied varieties of material creating a layer on the surface of a growing media – your garden

Fire Ants are Our Problem Too. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) are quite small (2-6 mm) as is shown by the life size photo with one identifying feature being that they

Rock Minerals are not just crushed rock as most people think but are really a carefully blended mix of minerals such as Basalt, Gypsum, Lignite & Rock Phosphate. There can

Why would you use grafted plants? Grafting and budding is a growing technique used because some seed grown plants can take a very long time to flower & fruit, may

Environmental Effects On Plants can play a significant role in how well or poorly a particular plant will grow under certain conditions Some environmental factors that affect the growth of

The Basics of Zeolite is a naturally occurring material found in many countries around the world, as well as Australia in Northern New South Wales. It is very low in

Basic Soil Properties vary from country to country, state to state, region to region depending on the geological activity from millions of years of formation and erosion What gives a