Gardening Tips and Guide
Plants is key to successful gardening. You need to select plants by matching their needs to the growing conditions in the landscape. Plants — even shade-adapted plants — need light, and the strength of the sunlight falling on any particular garden, as well as the number of hours per day the sun shines, depends on how far north or south the garden is.More sunlight means more energy available to sustain plant growth.The ideal situation for…
If you garden, they will come—weeds, that is. New gardens, in particular, often harbor many weeds. The key to taming weeds is effective week after week control techniques. By dealing with the problem weekly, particularly as your garden becomes established, the garden weeds will be less of a problem. This is partly because weeds have not been allowed to develop (and reseed) and because the cultivated plants get larger and more robust. There are several…
Gardeners and homeowners should be aware that bees — both managed colonies of honeybees and wild bees alike — are in real danger simply because of Colony Collapse Disorderand other environmental factors. Research shows that wild honeybee populations have dropped 25 percent since 1990, and more than 50 pollinator species are threatened or endangered. Planting a pollinator-friendly garden may be one of the best ways to help these beneficial insects, say experts in Penn State’s…
Produce grown in your own backyard is fresh, nutritious, and economical.Fresh fruits and vegetables are good for your vascular health. Better still, gardening is good exercise. Increasingly popular, Americans are applying their green thumbs in backyard, window box, rooftop, and community garden plots. They’re growing their own fruits (strawberries, raspberries, peaches, grapes, and melons) and vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, carrots, radishes, and cucumbers). Their results are a health and wealth bonanza. One dollar invested in…
The first steps in preventing deer damage is recognizing it. Because deer have no upper incisor teeth, they tear their food, resulting in ragged, torn leaves. This is the most obvious indicator that you’re dealing with deer eating your plants, rather than rabbits or woodchucks. Another clear indicator of deer browsing is that the damage will usually occur from ground level to five feet up. If you can see from this evidence that deer are…
Insects are important contributors to maintaining healthy gardens and insect population levels are indicators of overall environmental health. As an example, healthy predatory insect populations such as ladybugs are necessary components of a sustainable pest management program. But ladybugs cannot live without aphids; the two insects are linked in a delicate dance of life and death. There are few organizations that are interested in monitoring insect populations and teaching the public about the value of…
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