Plant Gardens 101

Hydroponics is a relatively new technology, evolving rapidly since its inception 70 years ago. From its origins in academic research, to its utilization in industry and government, hydroponics has found many new applications. It is a versatile technology, appropriate for both developing countries and high-tech space stations. Hydroponics technology can efficiently generate food crops from barren desert sand and desalinated ocean water, in mountainous regions too steep to farm, on city rooftops and concrete schoolyards and in arctic communities. In highly populated tourist areas where skyrocketing land prices have driven out traditional agriculture, hydroponics can provide locally grown high-value specialty crops such as fresh salad greens, herbs and cut flowers. Like manufacturing, agriculture tends to move toward higher-technology, more capital-intensive solutions to problems. Hydroponics is highly productive and suitable for automation. (more…)

The area in the soil occupied by the roots of a plant. Also called root run.

Ever since the great plague of the phylloxera in the 19th century, the ground was permeated by those destructive aphids and it remained quite impossible to grow the old-style vines. American vines, however, were more resistant to the phylloxera, though the wine produced from their grapes was considered inferior. To get the best of both worlds, American stocks (riparia) or, more frequently, hybrid stocks bred by crossing American with native vines, were planted and when they were established the native vines were grafted on to them.

A great deal of work has been done on establishing the best stocks compatible with a soil that is so high in calcium. The grafts were made at ground level and were protected by heaping earth up around the plants. Big growers began to use bench grafting, planting cuttings that are already grafted in nurseries. (more…)

Wild Flowers are beautiful to look at. It is pleasant to admire the wild Flowers. Collecting them for our Flower vase is a thrilling pass time. But is it possible for us to plant a wild Flower in our backyard? It is possible only if you have a big open Garden at your Home.

It is not so easy to grow wild Flowers. Because it belongs to wild type it doesn’t mean that it needs no care to grow or harmful pesticides to be sprayed. Wild Flowers need wide and open space to grow. They need minimum eight hours of sunlight everyday. The Soil should be rich in nutrients and well drained.

Wild Flowers do not grow well in hard soil and excess water. You cannot grow wild Flowers in your Garden if it is always damp. Dampness is not a suitable place for wild Flowers to grow. One who is interested in exploring the wild Flowers business has to understand what kind of neighborhood wild Flowers would fit the place where the Person lives in. (more…)

Daisy family
Compositae
Ga-zay’ni-a. Showy South African herbs comprising about 16 species, a few long cultivated for their pretty flowerheads.

Description
Leaves alternate and basal. Flowerheads solitary, long-stalked, closing at night or in cloudy weather. Rays yellow, golden, or white, often with a dark spot at the base, the head thus with a dark eye. Good ground cover or edging plants.

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