Gardening Tips and Guide
A problem for older gardeners is finding tools that make gardening easier as getting up and down becomes harder. Noel Valdes, the 67 year old owner of CobraHead LLC, has designed two garden tools that are finding a following with “baby boomer” and older garden enthusiasts while at the same time are being recognized by all gardeners as useful and well-made tools. Noel has been working on solutions to weeding his own large home vegetable…
From creating a flower border in the back garden to working on a large scale building project, buying landscape materials in bulk quantities can save a great deal of time, effort and money. Buying in bulk is cost effective and efficient for almost any gardener.If you have all the materials you need for your project right from the beginning, you will get the job done much quicker and cut out the inconvenience of trips backwards…
While plant lovers and gardeners celebrate National Gardening Day, doctors warn the fertile form of exercise is leading to a growing number of injuries this time of year. As with any exercise, if you haven’t done it in a while, aches and pains are going to crop up. Digging in the dirt s a top way to stay in shape. And indeed an hour of hoeing, pruning and planting can burn more than 300 calories….
It may be that plants have an immune system that functions like that which animals have; it is just an external system, rather than an internal one. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Netherland’s Wageningen University have found that plants rely on a complex community of soil microbes to defend themselves against pathogens, much the way mammals harbor a raft of microbes to avoid infections. They…
Horticulture can support healthier populations of key farmland bird species. Research carried out by the Horticultural Development Company (HDC) has shown that horticultural cropping is likely to provide high quality habitats for a range of farmland bird species including grey partridge, jackdaw, lapwing, skylark, stock dove, tree sparrow, yellow wagtail and yellowhammer. This has been associated with higher population densities and healthier population trends since 1994 for many species. However, over the past eighteen months,…
The National Gardening Association conducted a survey showing that about one out of five households nationwide spent more time caring for their lawns and gardens last year and 16 percent less money in total than in previous years. The survey goes on to indicate that, while most of the 83 million households that participated in do-it-yourself lawn and garden activities last year spent about the same amount of time on their lawns and gardens, 22…
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