Category: Gardening
Vertical gardening is quite popular. In fact, it might be trendier than it should be. In the right situations, it has practical applications and is appealing. Unfortunately…….
Continue readingyou need to know where your horse food came from before you use horse poo in your compost or on your garden. It will certainly make you question where you get your horse poo from and what the horses were fed. A very eye opening read. ENJOY
Continue readingLike Bacteria and Fungi, there are good & bad Nematodes & ones of no importance. The good ones are free living ones that…….
Continue reading…..Inadvertently you may plant things together that work well or simply won’t thrive because of other plants they are grown near
Continue readingNutrients (also called elements or fertilisers) are either mobile OR not-mobile. Mobile Nutrients are ones
Continue readingBack 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.
Continue readingGarden covers come in many and varied varieties of material creating a layer on the surface of a growing media.
Mostly they are organic but……
Continue readingFire 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 …..
Continue readingRock 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.
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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”.