…..Inadvertently you may plant things together that work well or simply won’t thrive because of other plants they are grown near

Nutrients (also called elements or fertilisers) are either mobile OR not-mobile. Mobile Nutrients are ones

Back in July 2016 I posted an article on chemicals in horse manure and the damaging effects it had on that man’s garden. Literally that same week I had a customer come by to pick up some more Compots and she told me she had the exact same problem in her garden when she added horse manure. She managed to resolve the problem by adding Activated Carbon to the soil.

Garden covers come in many and varied varieties of material creating a layer on the surface of a growing media.

Mostly they are organic but……

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 have …..

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 be up to 100

Grafting and budding are used because some seed grown plants can take a very long time to flower & fruit and then may be of poor quality after all.
Budding and grafting involves joining parts of two or more different plants together in such a way that they will grow together and continue to live as one individual plant. The top part is called the “scion” and the bottom the “stock”.